Vortex illusion carpet

Excellent vortex illusion carpet in the video game department at Paris's Fnac La Défense entertainment retailer. Photo from Alex Korting's Flickr stream. (via Superpunch)

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Brainspore

Stupid holodeck malfunctions.
http://www.geekman.ca GeekMan

Show it to me from another angle.
http://www.alwayssababa.com/ lishevita

I wonder how many people trip over their feet in there. It must be pretty disorienting and “trippy”. (Fun! And… woozy?)
http://tokyofarm.com Spencer Cross

Very cool, but as Brainspore alludes to it will only work from the spot where the photo is taken (which I would assume is the entrance). I would love to see it from the other side.
Bryan Clarke

We had the same carpet at my old school (http://mdm.gnwc.ca). After a while you kind of don’t notice it any more, but if you’re ever stumbling around in a semi-drunk Christmas party haze, the carpet suddenly becomes your worst enemy.
- http://twitter.com/CatherineOmega Catherine Winters
  
  When I used to work at GNWC during prelaunch and Corhorts 1-2, I was always falling over and feeling nauseous from it. It was awful. Terrible, terrible carpet.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Dave-Watson/1092885774 Dave Watson

Another vortex carpet, or another picture of the same : http://www.moillusions.com/2011/09/illusion-carpet-in-the-game-store.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/koocheekoo/ Koocheekoo

A quick Google image search yields some pictures from other angles. Here is one http://www.egecarpets.com/Files/Billeder/Sidebilleder/Inspiration/Referencefotos/Commercial/commercial_carpet_025.jpg
- EH
  
  That’s the same angle.
GawainLavers

I haz a barfy.
Halloween_Jack

It really could be a serious problem for someone with vertigo. Maybe they’re assuming that no one with that condition would be shopping for video games?