What Happens When You Drink & Drive

Very cool opticle effect.

i don't get it :-/ what visual effect?

Pudifoot, try reading the words individually. It looks different from when you look at the picture as a whole.

Ooops..I meant optical 0_o

No...that's what happens when the mushrooms juuust start kicking in.

Looks like the advertisers missed the point on this one. If someone is in a car driving, they won't have nearly enough time to read through that whole thing word by word and see the effect. If someone is already drunk and reading it before getting into their car, the swaying of the sign will just blend in with the rest of the world spinning around them.

How does that work? I'm thinking the illusion is due to the shading behind each letter making it seem that a light source is coming from a different direction for each letter. Did I get that right? Do I get a cookie?

I've printed as a jpeg and it's still moving.

And seriously, that's what it's like when magic mushroom start kicking in.

they should've just put a dead person, I don't see how that picture would stop anyone from drinking and driving

Looks like a flag flying in a gentle breeze.

@Nastia

But then everyone would be looking at that and that could kill someone! :(

Ha, at first I didn't notice anything at all but once that optical effect kicked in, it WAS pretty neat! I do agree with bean that it seems somewhat problematic in terms of drivers not having time to process the illusion, or of it being worryingly distracting to drunk (or sober!) drivers ... but even so I can't help but admire its cleverness =) Perhaps it'd be a good ad for those marquees inside airports, or subways, or other places where passersby are walking rather than driving ...

oh god that almost made me sick! More like being on psychadelics.

My comment disappeared... these are called ECVP waves, I think this guy Akiyoshi Kitaoka invented them:

http://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/ECVPwaves.html

Here's an academic article on the subject:

http://www.perceptionweb.com/abstract.cgi?id=v070698

Ahh.. I think I'm drunk. Cause the picture is all screwy and stuffs.

nice use of drop shadows to make the way the individual lettters look like they are coming from different directions.

Maybe the intent is that the police arrest all those people who stand in front of the sign looking at it with google eyes. Maybe.

I wonder what it looks like to those who do not read English?

I can never see these optical illusions. Even reading each word one by one I just don't see it. I understand there is suppose to be some sort of "wavy" effect. Could someone describe what the illusion should look like?

I don't get it. Is that because I only have one eye?

You can only see the effect when the eye moves across the image. If you stare at it steadily, it won't move. But move your eyes around it, and the words just past the edge of your best focus will seem to start waving.

I actually am drunk, and I can't tell the difference. I'll check tomorrow to see what all this optical illusion stuff is about.

Really fantastic, should be launched on bus shelters world wide.

I want to be drunk all the time then!

Oh I can never see these things. I focus too much on one point I think, or for some reason my brain can't be fooled by them. It might have something to do with the fact that I have no sight in one eye. I don't really know much about the science behind these, so I can't tell why I can't see them.

Nifty!

i feel like im swimming in glycerol

i've been swimming one-eyed in glycerol while drunk and on mushrooms, and now i'm going to drive home from mumbai. do i win a prize?

You win another beer!

can some1 email me and let me know how 2 do it uhum yes the s word pleeeeeeeeeeeze im desperate or you could just physicaly show me