Cat goes ape for this 2-D optical illusion

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Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/04/13/cat-goes-ape-for-this-2-d-opti.html

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Hooman mesmerized by cat mesmerized by optical illusion…

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Please tell me this has been posted before … because I just had one of the most intense déjà vu episodes in recent memory.

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Oh this has been all over Reddit for the last week at least. Never gets old though :heart_eyes_cat:

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I’m not saying I don’t buy the premise here, but… I’m also pretty sure I’ve seen a cat do exactly the same thing to a completely blank sheet of white paper. They crazy.

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Maybe you’re remembering the last time a similar video of a cat reacting to this optical illusion, back in March, 2013.

Bonus: Here’s the actual illusion for you to print out for your own kitties as well as a cursory explanation of why the illusion works, and a more detailed, scientific explanation.

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Needs a catnip intensifier.

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“This is more annoying than that damned ‘red dot’ that squiggles up and down the walls and across the floor, that I can never catch.”

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Now I know what is missing in my life. Floor tiles with this optical illusion on them. WANT!

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Thanks!

Gonna try this…

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Yay, thanks!

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Repost! This was posted years ago.

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It’s mesmerizations all the way down…

Also, tomorrow at game night, totally doing this to Vince’s cat, Persephone (I call her P Kitty).

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the cat is thinking, “MAKE IT STOP, MAKE IT STOP!”

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Remind me not to drink too much at your house.

“Everything is spinning!”

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.[quote=“doctordave, post:5, topic:98885, full:true”]
I’m not saying I don’t buy the premise here, but… I’m also pretty sure I’ve seen a cat do exactly the same thing to a completely blank sheet of white paper. They crazy.
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Came to post the same thing

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Cats going ape is one thing, but watch out when an ape goes cat.

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There was a post quite some time ago which featured images like the moving-circles, only carefully-constructed in such a way that the illusion was lost and the circles would not spin no matter how much you looked at them. Alas, I cannot seem to find it at the moment. (Perhaps someone else recalls?)

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I think I remember seeing it, but I think it was in the comments thread of another optical illusion topic.

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or drink more. with luck the two spin directions cancel each other out

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