Change blindness animation captures top illusion prize

(PhysOrg.com) -- After discovering by accident through a quirk in his laptop that random dots arranged in a circle and constantly changing color, appeared to stop changing color if they began to move, Jordan Suchow a grad student at Harvard, in conjunction with his advisor George Alvarez, produced a video of the effect and wound up winning first prize in this year’s "Best Illusion of the Year" contest held by the Vision Sciences Society every year in Naples, Florida. The illusion showed that there exists a form of change blindness that until this example arose, no one knew about.

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