Originally published at: Moving train illusion: Why zooming in feels like slowing down | Boing Boing
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Because they’re zooming in on something that’s further away. Not really an illusion is it?
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Father Ted covered this, or something very similar.
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yeah, i mean found the center of stillness in the final frames pretty cool, but those things are straight ahead and their motion is in the fact they’re slowly growing larger. the stuff at the sides is whipping by and is gone quickly. the brain is evaluating two completely different behaviors
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I was in 9th grade English class and I looked up to see a blackboard eraser floating in mid-air. As it floated, it gradually increased in size as it slowly rotated. The significance of the lack of side-to-side motion eventually dawned on me, and I ducked just before it smacked into the guy behind me.
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