Akiyoshi Kitaoka's Rotating Snakes.
Jul 30, 2009 at 11:06 PM 
This image is famously available on acid blotter paper. Not that I would know...but I have heard that. I've always loved moire patterns, and anything optical that geeks out your eyes. Akiyoshi's work is sick!
Moire from YouWorkForThem on Vimeo.
Akiyoshi Kitaoka (北岡 明佳, born August 19, 1961 in Kochi, Japan) is a Professor of Psychology at the College of Letters, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan.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. Deep shit. Whoa.
He became renowned through this Rotating snakes illusion.
The short film above is titled Moire. Animation is by a really cool company called YouWorkForThem. It is composed of patterns and hypnotic illusions, Moire may result in acid flashbacks from your teenage childhood or slight migraines.
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