Rollers by Akiyoshi Kitaoka

The eyes can play trick on us when objects are really static, and yet, they somehow seem to move. I was browsing the web when I came across some visual illusions that really made me a bit dizzy.

Akiyoshi Kitaoka have made a lot of visual trick art, as a tool for study. I can't seem to take my eye away from these rollers as I struggle in making them stop. Of course, I lost the battle. My eyes will always play these tricks on me...or more likely, my brain.

I don't know if it's right to tag this work here, but I think it is an art on its own. Besides, it's just a curious stuff to look at on a lazy day.

More About Akiyoshi:

Akiyoshi Kitaoka is a Professor of Psychology at the College of Letters, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan. In 1984 he received a BSc from the Department of Biology, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, where he studied animal psychology (burrowing behavior in rats) and (at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience) neuronal activity of the inferotemporal cortex in Macaque monkeys.

After his 1991 PhD from the Institute of Psychology, University of Tsukuba, he specialized in visual perception and visual illusions of geometrical shape, brightness, color, in motion illusions and other visual phenomena like Gestalt completion and perceptual transparency, based on a modern conception of Gestalt Psychology.