No, these circles are not spinning in a clockwise direction

This is a picture that you and your family will be discussing at the dinner table all weekend long. 

Beau Deeley, a digital artist who creates most of their work on a computer, made a blue and orange circle-based picture. But the colours and the shapes are not the most interesting thing about the image. 

If you look closely, it appears as if the circles in the background are spinning in a clockwise direction around the column in the middle. 

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This is immediately inaccurate, because this is a still image and not a gif - it has no moving elements to it. Yet, those who have seen it have agreed that their eyes showed them a moving image. 

So what's the trick? 

One person shared the answer to the illusion: if you focus on only one spot of the picture, it stops "moving". Try it. 

Isn't that amazing?

Now, if only we could find a definitive answer to why our brains always fall for these illusions!

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