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Originally Posted by footfootfoot
You can also mess around with the speed by looking at different areas of the orange. It slows down as you look to the edges, speeds up when you look between the two rings of dots. You can almost get the dots to stop orbiting but they they still spin.
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I suspect this has to do with the distribution of cones and rods in the retina.
Your center of vision (acuity) is via the cones, while night and peripheral vision is via the rods.
The cones see color and refresh rapidly, while the rods see b/w and are slower to refresh.