Originally published at: This interactive op art will spank your eyeballs and twist your synapses Boing Boing Interactive op art to tweak your mind
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well, that is fun!
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My eyeballs must be masochists because they liked the smacking.
Anyway, when I was about 8 years old, I would occasionally visually fixate on the bathroom floor tiles in the apartment we used to live in. (Stay with me on this.) The tiles were 1"X1" and offered a very unusual illusion (very entertaining for me whilst sitting on the john). Without blinking, I would stare at the tiles until visual “burn-in” (is that the correct term?) began; that’s when things got interesting. I observed super-fast-moving, light-colored “striations” shooting along the tiles’ thin grouting and all in the same direction, then – instantly – the direction would change course by 90 degrees and the process would repeat. The direction-change may have been driven by micro-movements of my eyeballs, something I did not consider back then. It was just interesting to watch. Regarding the movement of the striations I observed, one can get a fair idea of what I saw, and that by looking at time-lapse/sped-up videos of big city traffic at night (except without the braking 
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Juan Pinkus, after Bridget Riley’s Movement in Squares…
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Woah, me too! I would also allow my eyes to soft-focus until I could see all the dust and crap on me eyeball lens. At least, that’s what I assumed it was.
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This is good classic internet content. Thank you
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I was at a festival earlier this year and there was a collection of trippy paintings - one in particular was a flowing abstract collection of blobs (think lava lampesque) on a black and white checkerboard pattern. I’d stare at it for 5-10 seconds and it would glitch in my visual field, like it was resetting, and start over. I stood there for way too long…
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Try this one:
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