This is a great illusion, actually it hurts my eyes. This one has been passed around a good bit, came across it originally a few years ago though it just popped up in our inbox again.
Usually known as the “Scintillation Grid“, was discovered by a chap named Elke Lingelbach of the Institut fur Augenoptik Aalen in Germany and is a modification of an illusion called the Hermann Grid, which dates way back to 1870!
At any rate, try counting those little black dots : )
It hurt my eyes.I counted 35 dots
i REALLY don’t know- every time i move my eyes away from one white dot, it turns black- THIS IS COOL!! Gotta pass it on!!!!!!
there are no black dots
No Black Dots
that is so cool! it make su feel like ur goin blind or something!
cool ive counted 34 black dots
and 1 white dot
i counted 35
35 dots all together, something annoying like infinite black dots though grrr…
i hate these things
i like it i counted 35 it was pretty neat just kidding its kinda GAY
This phenomenon also works with colors. If you stare at a color intently, then avert your gaze to a white surface, you will momentarily see the complement of the color. This happens becuase the receptors in your eyes become fatigued for the particular spectral colors you stared at, and when you look at the white (which is all colors) surface, the afterimage loses those colors.
35 what so great about it i counted so easly
there are no balack dots. good illusion tho’
theres 34 dumbasses
ok well it is kind a hard to count the dots. my eyes know hurt from it now
There is None ! 😛
i counted 9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 black dots lol
HA! This one was done in my school.
There are no black dots at all. Sorry for you who counted and hurt your eyes
but like he said its an Illusion. If you acctually look, The dots are all white.
the black dots disapear because there not acctually there.
none. it only looks like there are black dots
There are 35 nos moving black dots
there are no black dots
There are 0 black dots.
35 dots.Only turn black ater you’ve already counted it.I think im getting blind i can’t spot my Pc.Lol
this is way cool! there are no black dots; they’re all white. 35 to be exact.
there are not black dots u stupid dill holes
SEEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN ITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT hahahahahahahaha………
What was i supposed to do?
that is so groovy
really trippy, but COOL……
lol there aint really any black dots, because when you look at another dot they go to white
there are none
A chap named Elke ? You’re not from a european neighborhood, are you ? Elke is a female name. It’s a woman.
how do people think of this crap? Cool though
I like it….
You can comfortably count 35 white dots
STOP MOVING AROUND DANG BLACK DOTS!
Its an illusion; no black spots. I counted 35, though. Funny, isnt it?
To admit that there are no black spots at all and to say there are 35 of them!
i didn’t see any black dots i only seen white dots
hate it its cheap
dont like it, it cheats
ye i no
crap!!!
it made me cry! i couldn’t count because everytime i blinked…it would change it’s color and i lost count…crazy but cool!
there are no black dots u idiotz!!!
40… duuh!
There are no black dots there all white
what black dots???
there white dots buh damnit it hurt muh eyes ima SUE 😐 xD naww i loved it everyone thought i was krazeh becuz i was whining becuz it hurt muh eyes o.o
ha ha what ha
what about the red dots?
i counted 34..’cause there are all 35 dots…but one is white 🙂
owwwwwww my eyes that hurts
35.
0.
It’s an illusion.
There are no black dots.
There are none. Easy joke.
WTF! I wonder how they did that it really hurts to look at dots that don’t exist. sam, r u ok?
bish: are you sure that it didn’t hurt? cuz i swear, my eyes just melted
OWCH!! my eyes just got toally frazzled. I am gonna die now…:-(
Elke is not a “chap.” A woman invented this illusion. Her husband is a German mathematician who is a co-author on the paper.
WOAH!!! CREEPY!! (^-^)
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