Published 19:16 IST, August 17th 2020

Optical illusion of 'moving' cubes baffles netizens; Elon Musk responds

A tweet of an optical illusion has perplexed the netizens all across social media with 28.7K likes. Elon Musk responds to the GIF and makes a comments.

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A very strange optical illusion has hit internet by storm, baffling netizens.  illusion deceives human eye into seeing ar im, however, it turns out that it is just one im of two rotating cubes. It has been deemed as one of 'most powerful' illusions by perplexed netizens. complex GIF has also caught eye of engineer, industrial designer, techlogy entrepreneur Elon Musk, as he makes a remark on viral tweet. 

secret behind an optical illusion

illusion shows two cubes rotating in opposite directions. However, reality is that y are completely static. Reports suggest that optical illusion was first shared by Japanese Twitter user ‘jagarikin’. While sharing video again, Twitter user SteveStuWill remarked that this is one of most powerful illusions he has ever seen.

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Perplexed by GIF, netizens have bombarded comment section. tweet also received a comment from Elon Musk who was stunned after viewing GIF. strong GIF has invited over 7.5K Retweets and Comments and 28.7K likes. 

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A user explained secret behind illusion. He commented, "Busted! white and black outline causes motion effect. Flash diverts your focus". Ar user commented, " tion that ims are identical and unmoving, and by extension this is some optical illusion that only occurs in mind, igres that shading is in-fact moving in different directions". re also various people who are curious and are asking questions. 

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(Im Credits: Twitter/SteveStuWill)

19:13 IST, August 17th 2020