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A visual test

  • 15-11-2004 1:50am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭dangerman


    This is a fun test. I saw it on metafilter.com. For it to work you have to follow these instructions:

    There is a video that loads on the page linked below. It's 7megs + requires java to run.

    Count the amount of times the people in WHITE SHIRTS ONLY pass the basketball around.

    You can only watch the video ONCE and watch the whole thing through in one go counting as it plays - if you cheat the test is meaningless.

    Here's the video link:

    http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/grafs/demos/15.html

    Once you've done that and noted how many times the basketball was passed between only the white shirt peeps, go to this link:

    http://free.mailinfo.com/web/reality/step2.htm

    Loads of fun. The use of spoiler tags is obviously necessary for anyone replying once they've done the test so as not to ruin it.


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 328 ✭✭dublin_apache


    LOL :D ... Brilliant


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Flippin' 'eck...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 819 ✭✭✭sixpack's little hat


    eh?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,522 ✭✭✭Dr. Loon


    They did that on Brainiac a while ago.


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,002 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    Woot!
    I saw something out of the corner of my eye and, when given the list of options, I was able to recall it as a gorilla.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,733 ✭✭✭Blub2k4


    hehe nice one


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Yeah, I saw this on Brainiac before.

    Astonished was not the word. It's based on the same ideas that Derren Brown and illusionists/street magicians use. It's really cool though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    lol....
    we really only do see what we are told to....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,922 ✭✭✭Dave


    I don't get it.
    Were you not supposed to see the gorrilla?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭tba


    Dave wrote:
    I don't get it. Were you not supposed to see the
    gorrilla
    ?
    Spoiler TAGS Dave!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,647 ✭✭✭impr0v


    heh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,426 ✭✭✭Roar


    i counted 13 passes, anyone else?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,842 ✭✭✭steveland?


    God dammit those spoiler tags are useless! I couldn't help myself looking at ixoy's post while i waited for java to download...


    stupid impatience....


    anyways
    yeh i saw the gorrilla coming in but i didnt notice him stop and pound his chest till the next time i saw it


    plus i counted 15 throws from the white shirted people


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    Wow, brilliant.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,911 ✭✭✭Zombienosh


    i got 14 and a gorilla


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,680 ✭✭✭Tellox


    I counted 14 throws,and a gorilla..apparently this makes me gifted.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭KlodaX


    I counted 14
    I something black moving in and assumed it was more people in black t-shirts trying to confuse the situation.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,766 ✭✭✭robbie1876


    I got 14 throws and a kangaroo. lol


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,842 ✭✭✭steveland?


    robbie1876 wrote:
    I got 14 throws and a kangaroo. lol
    You must be especially gifted


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    I was expecting asomething to jump out and make a loud noise.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,387 ✭✭✭EKRIUQ


    Definately 15 passes




  • i didn't see what the big deal was, i counted and noticed and the test called me a cheat!!

    Can people not do two things at once?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 410 ✭✭summer_ina_bowl


    14??????????


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,089 ✭✭✭D!ve^Bomb!


    i got 14 too?? what does it all mean?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭Farls


    I got it complete the first time, i had a niggling in the back of my mind that i seen something and what do ya know!

    Farlz


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,089 ✭✭✭D!ve^Bomb!


    maybe i only got 14 cos i blatently seen a... well i dont want to spoil it.. but you know what i'm talkin bout..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 507 ✭✭✭[Preacher]


    I saw the gorilla, I dont get it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,287 ✭✭✭NotMe


    Ha deadly.. I didn't see it at all the first time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,267 ✭✭✭Elessar


    *yawn*

    mildly entertaining


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭tba


    Just for the record there was 15 passes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 654 ✭✭✭DS


    No, 14 passes.


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