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    | Optical Toys
    What: This optical illusion is an alternate example of the “Fraser spiral” or “concentric spiral” illusion. Named by British psychologist James Fraser in 1908 [1], and while it doesn’t have rounded “loops”, the visual noise creates similar lines, causing the same effect. window.ramp.que.push(functi [...]
    | Optical Toys
    What: This interactive version of the “stepping feet” optical illusion, where both the yellow and blue walkers appear to be stepping across the screen but are in fact moving in a straight line at the same speed. window.ramp.que.push(function () { window.ramp.addTag("pwDeskLbBtf1"); }) The effect [...]
    | Optical Toys
    What: The official name for this optical illusion, is Color Assimilation[1] or the Bezold Effect[2], which would be the most concise way of describing what is happening here. If the illusion is working correctly, as it does on me, you will see a grey ball, with a multi-striped background with one la [...]
    | Optical Toys
    What: This finnicky optical illusion is called schroders stairs, which is aptly named after it’s author, Heinrich Schröder, who published the illusion in 1858 [1] The illusion uitilizes a phenomena Multistable perception, which is a type of perceptual ambiguity that occurs when an image can be seen [...]
    | Optical Toys
    What: This optical illusion is a little tricky to categorize, but I’ll put it in the category of “contrast effect” [1], although in this example we’ve got an animated circle shifting from left to right, as opposed to two fixed objects. The effect was noted by Ibn al-Haytham[2] who famously wrote a b [...]
    | The Useless Web
    Sometimes I wonder just how many checkboxes I have “checked” or “unchecked” during my life, from multiple choice quiz’s to filling out life’s great paperwork they’re everywhere… if there’s one thing thats for certain, its that after visiting this site I’ve clicked a whole lot more! !SPLIT! !SPLIT! [...]
    | The Useless Web
    One Square Minesweeper is one of those projects that have sat in my todo list for a long long time, something that would be almost in a sense the fastest easiest game that you can win, but also lose equally easy. !SPLIT! !SPLIT! Why A Single Square? Ultimately I never really took to the game minesw [...]
    | The Useless Web
    Somehow in my searches I had missed this wonderful site until recently Tania reached out to me! It’s hard to believe that such a magnificent site had gone under my radar for so long. !SPLIT! !SPLIT! What got you into web development? Back in 2015, I started experiencing these unpredictable episodes [...]
    | The Useless Web
    When you’re staring into this beautiful pug in a rug the world fades away and nothing else matters… at least, that’s what it felt like building this beautiful time waster. A true homage to the beautiful world of pugs, as well as some of the most time-consuming sites in existence. !SPLIT! !SPLIT! Fi [...]
    | The Useless Web
    When I was building this site, I wanted to combine the idea of complete uselessness with the idea of absolute and complete time-wasting, as in, you could play this challenge for 3 hours and get into a tangle of a mess and come up none the wealthier, wiser or really anything positive… outside of brag [...]
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