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[–]A_User 197 points198 points ago

Not mindblown, but it's interesting anyway.

The dots at outer regions are moving faster than those closer to the center, so when you obscure the slow-moving center area, you only see the fast-moving outer area.

[–]mahaugher 39 points40 points ago

Yeah, you can also do the reverse and cover up the fast moving areas to make it appear slow.

[–]YUNOLETMEMAKEACCOUNT 2 points3 points ago

Ha first thing I did as well, not mindf but great optical illusion

[–]Zephs 10 points11 points ago

Someone call Green Lantern! D:

[–]c010rb1indusa 7 points8 points ago

Am I the only one that realizes this phenomenon is exactly the same as traveling in a car? When you look forward out of a car going 60mph it looks like things are moving alot slower when you look to the left or to the right where things seem to be passing you at a very fast rate compared to looking out the windshield.

[–]andytuba 2 points3 points ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax

(thank you, johnnyladders)

[–]A_User 0 points1 point ago

You're not the only one, no. I just wanted to explain why covering up the middle of the image makes the animation seem faster in the simplest terms possible - ie: I didn't bother to explain why the outer area moves faster.

[–]Theloogangkids 0 points1 point ago

Not really. Its just like when i was little and we used to travel in the car. The grass closest to the street always seemed to be moving fast, even though the trees right behind it seemed to be really slow. I never understood why that was. But TIL.

[–]ceepington 3 points4 points ago

Browsing on my phone. Had to put my finger in the center. Burned my screen cover with my cigarette.

[–]wimpykid 7 points8 points ago

Neat!

[–]Joon01 2 points3 points ago

Right? I'm kind of tired of people saying that something will blow my mind. Particularly when all it elicits is "Oh, I understand."

"Ah, the outside dots are moving faster." UR HEAD ASPLODE!!

[–]lolly_gaggin_again 13 points14 points ago

Or, they are moving the same speed and your fists in the way gives you less time to focus.

EDIT: Nevermind...I'm a fucking idiot and completely wrong..

[–]A_User 7 points8 points ago

Nope. Cover up outside and see the opposite.

[–]CoriOreo 3 points4 points ago

What's important is that you tried.

Gold star.

[–]James_Wolfe 1 point2 points ago

Thank you, it wasn't working for me since my eye was drawn to the outer regions before I put my fist up.

[–]ElRed_ 3 points4 points ago

Logic always wins. Always.

[–]dhibbit 0 points1 point ago

Yeah, another way to think about it is that it removes the perspective from the image.

In the original we "fix" the speed of the particles based on the implied perspective.

[–]r00x 251 points252 points ago

[–]ThatBaldAtheist 230 points231 points ago

[–]Ghodsi 25 points26 points ago

Perfect.

[–]Fighter4Life21 10 points11 points ago

I just punched my itouch... Not working ಠ_ಠ

[–]HumanVelocipede 5 points6 points ago

[–]GherkinForceps 11 points12 points ago

I love this gif! I imagine the sounds he makes while doing this.

[–]come_the_dawn 5 points6 points ago

Pohh... Pohh...

[–]nixle 0 points1 point ago

woppa!

[–]laserbeans2 1 point2 points ago

the trick does not work with this gif.

[–]AmericaTheHero 16 points17 points ago

It's even worse when you're on an iPod.

[–]ad_rizzle 4 points5 points ago

Use your finger instead of your fist. They have roughly the same proportion and you can see the effect quite well.

[–]holyeffingpoo 0 points1 point ago

Ah another smart person. Thank god.

[–]faschr4023 6 points7 points ago

Try on an iPhone

[–]newton54645 7 points8 points ago

its the same thing. they have the same size screen

[–]faschr4023 8 points9 points ago

Sorry thought it said iPad.

[–]WhatTheFlux1 7 points8 points ago

Apology not accepted.

[–]WhatTheFluke 0 points1 point ago

You should accept it, accepting things is good especially from old men that live down the street or uncles and their ice pops mmmmm

[–]faschr4023 0 points1 point ago

i read that last part in herbert the pervert's voice

[–]ieatdinosaurs 0 points1 point ago

that escalated quickly.

[–]holyeffingpoo 0 points1 point ago

Use a finger. Worked for me.

[–]theDragn 36 points37 points ago

Are you the Heavy from TF2?

[–]LOOKITSADAM 7 points8 points ago

no, it's just a small picture

[–]Brolock_Holmes 5 points6 points ago

Since you're using RES, you can click and drag, suddenly big picture.

[–]LOOKITSADAM 1 point2 points ago

yeah, i know. i tried to scale it to what r00x had it at in his picture.

[–]NeoDharma 0 points1 point ago

Woah I never knew about this feature. Awesome.

[–]b0w3n 0 points1 point ago

Your wrist is disproportionally large to your hand.

Just thought I'd mention it.

[–]LOOKITSADAM 0 points1 point ago

That's just the perspective messing with you, i'm actually quite scrawny 'round the wrists.

[–]b0w3n 0 points1 point ago

Hey my arm/hand twin!

Yeah it did look odd at that angle though.

[–]Gearshock 1 point2 points ago

Same problem. Oh well, you know what they say about guys with big hands. Big gloves.

[–]avapoet 1 point2 points ago

Yes it is. You just can't see it working 'cos your hand is in the way.

[–]curzon176 0 points1 point ago

same :(

[–]Titjiggle 1 point2 points ago

You know RES allows you to click and drag the image to make it bigger or smaller, right?

[–]dmsuperman 1 point2 points ago

Yes. We know.

[–]Claude_Garamond 128 points129 points ago

I misread it and up a fist up my ass, and my erection quickened.

[–]whiskey_punch 16 points17 points ago

Go on.

[–]Se7en_Sinner 79 points80 points ago

[–]fireballturnover[S] 33 points34 points ago

I bet it would still speed up the .gif anyways.

[–]MangoMic 6 points7 points ago

I should have learnt by now not to drink while Im on here; I just spat my drink out

[–]OddCrow 6 points7 points ago

what the fuck am i reading

[–]JoeScotterpuss 1 point2 points ago

Ah you must be new to the Internet.

[–]OddCrow 4 points5 points ago

No, I'm just used to the king's english

[–]Wolf_Protagonist 1 point2 points ago

You know the king?

[–]DunnoBro 40 points41 points ago

My brother asked me why I was brofisting my monitor.

[–]j1mmie 1 point2 points ago

Dunno, bro

[–]darkpdragon 14 points15 points ago

dont have to put a fist in the middle, just set your focus to the edges of the GIF and it will do the same

[–]raintheory 22 points23 points ago

[–]Sillykittyfive 3 points4 points ago

Perfect usage of that .gif.

[–]Wargall 5 points6 points ago

[–]MrZeng 10 points11 points ago

I will never get my mind blown cause I'm On my iPhone.

[–]willford55543 15 points16 points ago

Me too but I used my finger

[–]Fapologist 12 points13 points ago

That's, what she said.

[–]gabe100000 5 points6 points ago

relevant username.

[–]SeveredBanana 0 points1 point ago

Why the comma?

[–]Mozzy 0 points1 point ago

Sounds like a song

sung while toking on a bong.

[–]Cha0tikz 4 points5 points ago

I feel as if this image consists of multiple layers. The smaller layer of dots would have to move faster to compensate for the illusion of travelling at the same rate of the larger dots in order to maintain the perspective.

Covering the middle with your hand would only eliminate the slower moving dots and cause for only seeing the faster moving dots.

[–]smyd223 13 points14 points ago

blatant repost

[–]chudontknow 4 points5 points ago

You must be new here... yup 30 days. Strap in son, we need to have a discussion about what reddit is.

[–]2Deluxe 1 point2 points ago

Wait... did I say strap in or strap on?

[–]smyd223 0 points1 point ago

:-)

[–]m-k 0 points1 point ago

It is, but every time I see it and follow the instructions, I always feel like a super hero.

[–][deleted] 26 points27 points ago

This is stupid and not WTF at all.

[–]Ghodsi 6 points7 points ago

Well I said WTF at the fact that this appeared in the WTF subreddit.

Meta WTF.

[–]decamonos 2 points3 points ago

Haha jokes on you! My comp lags gifs, so it stopped when I did it

[–]markiedee88 3 points4 points ago

explain this fuckery right this instant

[–]Ghodsi 2 points3 points ago

I approve of your word choice.

[–]CyrusJay 1 point2 points ago

Any other smartphone users having difficulty with this XD

[–]Cervical_Mucus 0 points1 point ago

Yeah, I tried with a finger, but it's just not cutting' it

[–]jackruby83 0 points1 point ago

Finger worked for me... Try the pinky finger. And close one eye ;)

[–]dQw4w9WgXcQ 1 point2 points ago

I've always wondered why superman did this.

[–]psychroclasm 1 point2 points ago

Repost with words missing. Can't remember if it said like or upvote if you're mindfucked. The capitalization was correct everywhere else.

[–]majortato 1 point2 points ago

dammit now I got a hole in my monitor...thanks a lot

[–]Dekar2401 0 points1 point ago

I was wondering when someone was going to make that comment. My initial thoughts were it was trying to get you to punch your monitor, causing the cracks to expand and make the gif bigger by default... or something. I'm glad I don't have that bad an impulse control problem.

[–]smeaglelovesmaster 1 point2 points ago

The human brain is wasted on humans.

[–]youstolemyname 1 point2 points ago

Didn't do shit.

[–]thecrafter90 1 point2 points ago

My mind wasn't blown. Guess I don't have a brain the size of a racoon's

[–]starwarscreature 1 point2 points ago

I did this for about 12 minutes...IT WAS AWESOME!

[–]satanpuppet 1 point2 points ago

Not to be the bad guy here, but isn't this a repost from about 2 weeks ago?

[–]Waaaghette 1 point2 points ago

Thank you for making me feel like a super hero.

[–]faceofuzz 1 point2 points ago

cover the outside and it slows down

[–]timo103 1 point2 points ago

I expected some sort of "ha ha now you're fisting this picture of some guy!" or something like that.

[–]cuddle_whatafag 1 point2 points ago

I didn't get it until I realized my fist was to big to properly follow this gif.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

Wow that's cool, my fist really did move faster! Now, When will the hole in my screen go away?

[–]taylor297 1 point2 points ago

Make a circle in the middle with your pointer finger and thumb and it will slow down

[–]SeveredBanana 1 point2 points ago

/r/WTF? ಠ_ಠ

[–]BrishenJ 1 point2 points ago

... very very sad that my fist is too big for this to work

[–]muh4 1 point2 points ago

you either suck, or have a small fist.

[–]ignaciof 1 point2 points ago

Repost!

[–]ChatGarou 0 points1 point ago

It just changes your visual focus to the outer edge rather than center.

The upside is I got to feel like superman for a few seconds.

[–]CapAWESOMEst 0 points1 point ago

Used my finger instead because I'm on my iPhone. I've been doing this for 15 minutes. Thanks?

[–]RaindropBebop 0 points1 point ago

You must have a really low resolution for it to be larger than your fist...

[–]sqone2 0 points1 point ago

Now I have smudges all over my screen, thanks asshole.

[–]scgoodolboy 0 points1 point ago

like this smudge was any worse than the ones already on there. lol nice try mr jerky.

[–]gabe100000 0 points1 point ago

honestly, I think it works better if you use your finger.

[–]Oliver_Sudden 0 points1 point ago

Not sure how the fist thing, but I sure had a hell of a time reading the instructions with all those moving dots.

[–]implyingiusereddit 0 points1 point ago

the edges move faster than the centre. not really mindblowing.

[–]alextheshah 0 points1 point ago

i'd rather have my dick blown, but this is also entertaining

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

Dude..

[–]Nuttjacob 0 points1 point ago

The only thing it did was break my monitor. You suck.

[–]dslicex 0 points1 point ago

I felt like a kid again :D

[–]girigiri 0 points1 point ago

Ugh, I can feel his penis in my mind.

[–]xyroclast 0 points1 point ago

Whose fists are small enough to not cover most of the gif?

[–]badpeaches 0 points1 point ago

Does that remind anyone else of driving in the snow?

[–]dasredditnoob 0 points1 point ago

I just put my fist through hyperspace

[–]Vessix 0 points1 point ago

Be cool if it actually worked, but it don't

[–]Dv9UnKnoWn 0 points1 point ago

It aint work...

[–]CaptAwesome5 0 points1 point ago

I put my fist in the middle of it. All I have now is a fist-shaped hole in my iPad.

[–]RoshoFTMFW 0 points1 point ago

This did not work on my cell phone...

[–]frostywit 0 points1 point ago

If you use your pointer finger (or middle finger, I don't give a fuck) it works better. And if you twirl your finger in a clockwise motion (or counter-clockwise, I don't give a fuck) your blown mind twirls the blue specks. Or don't, I don't give a

Edit: fuck.

[–]Bencool 0 points1 point ago

It doesnt speed up. The same effect is achieved by looking out a window in a speeding vehicle, and then only looking out the back two inches of that window.

[–]vegandread 0 points1 point ago

Don't try it on an iPhone. Yes I'm that dumb sometimes...

[–]NuckinFiggerr 0 points1 point ago

Do this while saying.... FALCON PUNCH!!!!!!!!!!!!

[–]ThisIsntLucifer 0 points1 point ago

Actually my computer just froze :/

[–]charol_astra 0 points1 point ago

Looks like I'm flying trough space at 1,000,000c, Dark Phoenix style.

[–]RedBeardedOwl 0 points1 point ago

Anyone else make it huge and pretend to be Superman?

[–]Smoking_Gun1508 0 points1 point ago

And BOOM goes the brain.

[–]thelolpatrol 0 points1 point ago

Close one eye and it will not speed up/slow down.

[–]elmarko44 0 points1 point ago

no. no. there was no "mind=blown"ing at all. perhaps you're an idiot

[–]Tehadam 0 points1 point ago

I'm superman... in space. Nice!

[–]Bamberger2334 0 points1 point ago

i first saw this on my ipod...now that im on a pc i get it.

[–]JarodPaulWalrus 0 points1 point ago

I'm on my iPod and I have huge hands :/

[–]RabbleRabble668 0 points1 point ago

I made jet sounds when I did it

[–]sloshywizard 0 points1 point ago

but my fist covers it ಠ_ಠ

[–]sirkusfreakinc 0 points1 point ago

What kind of sorcery is this?

[–]cdrMShepard 0 points1 point ago

Trippy!

[–]bluepinklady 0 points1 point ago

It's not working for me. :(

[–]cookiebox123 0 points1 point ago

Cross re-posting doesn't help much

[–]FreekForAll 0 points1 point ago

used my fingers to make a small open circle with index and thumb and moved around the image seeing only a small part of it at any time. this is fuckin with my mind.

[–]knockturnal 0 points1 point ago

In order to process how fast something is moving, the brain is determining the object's speed relative to some reference. When you obscure the slow moving objects, your hand becomes the reference, and since it is not moving, the objects are perceived faster because they are moving very quickly relative to your hand.

[–]conley46 0 points1 point ago

wow, i love this kind of pictures that when you stare are going to move itself. and when you stop looking it will also stop.

[–]Frosticus 0 points1 point ago

I look retarded right now

[–]ps02210 0 points1 point ago

Great... now I just broke my screen...

[–]sko0macat 0 points1 point ago

good god...

[–]angoodkind 0 points1 point ago

Cup your hand in an O, and the dots slow down. Whoa.

[–]Rowdyb 0 points1 point ago

I cant stop doing this. DOPE

[–]hezex 0 points1 point ago

Another interesting thing to do is getting the opposite effect -- making the particles appear slower. You can do this by making a circle with your hand around the center of the picture and looking at the space between!

[–]TheSickFuck 0 points1 point ago

How does this work?

[–]SuperiorMango8 0 points1 point ago

It doesn't work on mobile

[–]Der_Nailer 0 points1 point ago

Thanks, I was drunk and I broke my screen...

[–]10BV01 0 points1 point ago

[–]thegiftshop 0 points1 point ago

my fist is too big to tell

[–]tumescentpie 0 points1 point ago

Using RES to change the image size to the width of your fist, start at the bottom and slowly move up towards the top, you should be able to control the "speed" of you "flight" - you should also make cool noises as you fly through space because FUCK YA!

[–]Supertreek 0 points1 point ago

Thanks. Now I need to but a new monitor. My fist went through the screen.

[–]Lareit 0 points1 point ago

OMG and when I'm closer to the ground it seems like I'm faster then when I'm higher above the ground!

christ what a boring blow your mind.

[–]coolfoolgod 0 points1 point ago

This is the worst WTF post ever. My fist covers the entire GIF. So since I understood the concept i put two finger in the center of the GIF, no surprise. Windows Screen Saver taught kids this kay back in 1996.

[–]revel5150 0 points1 point ago

Ok, this explains a lot on why superman flies the way he does.

[–]drone14 0 points1 point ago

Who else was here for like 10 minutes amazed

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

Did anyone else imagine they were flying through space?

[–]Slyco 0 points1 point ago

FULL SPEED Dis is a test

[–]optipodelociraptor 0 points1 point ago

no it doesn't

[–]AmazingFreeman 0 points1 point ago

WAAAAAAAAAT

[–]zeththedarkmage 0 points1 point ago

Towel mode/hidden+ from Beatmania IIDX.

[–]StayFunky 0 points1 point ago

Don't work well on iPhone

[–]TrickTrolld 0 points1 point ago

This was a repost when I saw it 3 months ago.

[–]burninrock24 0 points1 point ago

if you make a circle and look through it, it slows down.

[–]Sorotoki 0 points1 point ago

First world problem: My phone won't load .gifs : (

[–]123ebm 0 points1 point ago

If u put ur finger in the middle of it the bit will work

[–]tarraaa 0 points1 point ago

This was hard with an iPhone but still did it. Neat.

[–]DaKuteCate 0 points1 point ago

it made me feel like superman me gusta face

[–]thegreatbrah 0 points1 point ago

no

[–]toutcela 0 points1 point ago

That's cool.

[–]theconstipator 0 points1 point ago

Im on my ipad so it doesnt work

[–]tharizzle 0 points1 point ago

You can slow it down by making a circle with your hands around the border.

[–]Carendil 0 points1 point ago

Not really mindfucked, it's coz you automatically look at the centre at first then once your fist is in the way you obviously look at the edges which look likes it's moving faster. Start at the centre and move outwards it does the same thing

[–]Pzazz 0 points1 point ago

TIL Reddit has tiny hands.

[–]Moikle 0 points1 point ago

Didn't work, but now I feel like superman

[–]Jepp2078 0 points1 point ago

LOOK MOM! I'M SUPERMAN!

[–]Mathbones 0 points1 point ago

not mine blown at all, what i see is a big fist in the way...

[–]Starbeetle2 0 points1 point ago

Oh wow! How does this happen?

[–]burrito115 0 points1 point ago

Fuck you, I'm on my iPod.

[–]Raunchy_Rhino 0 points1 point ago

Why did I just put my fist in front of my phone...

[–]theredvoid 0 points1 point ago

This hasn't been posted enough yet.

[–]Insomniacwithnolife 0 points1 point ago

It's so small on my iPhone that I had to use my thumb. What is this sorcery?!?!

[–]Butter_sc0tch 0 points1 point ago

my fist covers the entire gif :(

[–]Lessbeans 0 points1 point ago

Spent far too long alternating between covering the outside edges and covering the center. Much fun was had.

[–]Cycix 0 points1 point ago

My fist covers my phones screen

[–]SIRPORKSALOT 0 points1 point ago

lame. mind blown, not.

[–]opaque22 0 points1 point ago

I mean, look, it's not the craziest thing ever but I actually said "what the fuck" out loud and then repeated it and spent the time to figure out what was going on by covering other part of the image and so forth and so on.

That's a lot more than you can say for most of the shit that gets posted in this subreddit. Bravo.

[–]Lenh 0 points1 point ago

it helps to already have your mind altered on something before you can really experience the mind blowing effects of this gif. Try not to put your fist through your screen though

[–]2Deluxe 0 points1 point ago

YOU MUST BE SOOOO COOOL.

[–]Hipsterhitler63 0 points1 point ago

Repost

[–]Trapped_in_Reddit -5 points-4 points ago