Waterfall Illusion (Motion Aftereffect)
And also when persons turn away from looking at objects in motion, e.g. rivers, and especially those which flow very rapidly, they find that the visual stimulations still present themselves, for the things really at rest are then seen moving.
--Aristotle
Falls of Foyer, Scotland
(Robert Addams, 1834)
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