Context

The idea for this project came out of the viral dress optical illusion, where a dress looked blue and black for some people, while it looked white and gold for other people. It was just an image of a dress that had a strange amount of saturation, but it caused a huge viral outrage. I wondered what made that particular image go viral, and why people spent hours looking at something as simple as a picture of a dress. 

This train of thought led me to optical illusions in general. I began to watch videos on the scientific theory behind many different sort of optical illusions. As it turns out, many different optical illusions have to do with how the eye perceives movement, when there isn't any, due to an adjustment that the human brain makes to make up for the time delay it take for information to move from the eye to the brain.The brain turns a static object into moving object.