Optical Illusions Etc...: Spirals or Circles Optical Illusion?

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Spirals or Circles Optical Illusion?

Spirals or concentric circles? Look at the figures below, What do you see? Are both of these images of spirals plummeting toward the center or does one of these images have only concentric circles?

The truth here is that both images are of concentric circles. The top image is very hard to believe and many of you will mark up your screen with finger prints trying to trace the circles. Here is a little hint, trace the circles on the top image in a clockwise direction otherwise you could go crazy and swear that I'm lying to you.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...: Well, the circles in the top aren't really concentric, since the center of the smaller circles is higher than the center of the larger circles, but they are all definitely circular; ...

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