Author: Asyah Zalmai
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Your Eyes are Lying to You: The Science Behind Rotating Snakes
Figure 1. Kitoaoka’s Rotating Snakes Illusion Is it moving? It isn’t. This image is completely still. No animation. No movement. And absolutely nothing on the screen is changing. So why is it that you can see it moving? Why do we physically see things one way but mentally perceive them another? To understand why we…