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Making a Wooden Optical Illusion Bowl

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Written by Paul Strauss | July 2, 2025

Trypophobics look away. What you’re looking at is an object that appears to move in two directions when it’s spinning. Jack Mack Woodturning demonstrates how he created this mind-bending object by carving a bowl and then drilling dozens of circles radiating from its center. The trick is achieved by synchronising the lathe RPM with the camera’s frame rate.


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