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    Sony Plays optical illusion with customers!

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Duke2007, Jul 24, 2008.

  1. Duke2007

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    Ah.. but if you had ordered from Newegg you'd have it by now. :p
     
  4. Ayle

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    Do you know the grid optical illusion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_illusion

    Now look at the keyboard displayed at the bottom of the page. The spacing of the keys produce the same effect.
     
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    I'm not seeing it. Maybe it's because of my glasses.
     
  6. Rahul

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    I have glasses and I didn't see it at first, but now I do.

    Look at the spacing between the black keys on the keyboard. You'll see black dots.

    We must be really bored huh? :D
     
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    If you can't see it from the keyboard, just look at this if you havn't already gone to the hyperlink that Ayle posted:
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    Now look at this:
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    See it? It's a lot less noticable, but there.

    EDIT: A better picture, the above is actually a sligthly different illusion:
    [​IMG]

    In this one above, black dots seem to appear everywhere but where you look at, in the above (the wikipedia picture), white dots are everywhere and black dots appear randomly.
     
  8. ShinyFalcon

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    I see... AHH DOTS ON MY KEYBOARD! :D It would bother me a tiny bit if it does happen in real life. :p
     
  9. AmbitiousEd

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    Yeah, be glad it's not the first picture I posted, which is a scintillating grid illusion, that thing makes me almost have a seizure looking at it, seriously, it makes my eyes water.... (maybe I'm just looking at it too long without blinking).
     
  10. ScuderiaConchiglia

    ScuderiaConchiglia NBR Vaio Team Curmudgeon

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    "The brown acid that is circulating around us is not specifically too good."


    Click here!
    :D

    Gary
     
  11. chelet

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    Now I see it.
    It definitely makes me want the keyboard with the white keys.
     
  12. Duke2007

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    are you kidding me