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How to Create the Backwards Water Illusion

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How to Create the Backwards Water Illusion

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  1. Kaustab's Melody

    November 7, 2021 at 5:01 pm

    1st

  2. Mine

    November 7, 2021 at 5:02 pm

    lol

  3. Rides1283man

    November 7, 2021 at 5:04 pm

    Answer: No

  4. A K

    November 7, 2021 at 5:05 pm

    Didn’t this guy publish this video already in his channel.

  5. Just Some Guy with Purple Eyes

    November 7, 2021 at 5:10 pm

    In short, no, no it doesn’t

  6. ꜱᴜᴍᴇᴅʜ ꜱʜɪɴᴅᴇ ✪

    November 7, 2021 at 5:11 pm

    Grab your “I’m first” title here folks

  7. Jamesy

    November 7, 2021 at 5:23 pm

    Load a pish

  8. Barefoot Joe

    November 7, 2021 at 5:23 pm

    You seriously filmed a piece for Wired in Portait mode in 2021?? okaaaay…

    • Dat Huynh

      November 7, 2021 at 5:32 pm

      It’s #Shorts thing. For mobile people basically.

    • Barefoot Joe

      November 8, 2021 at 9:08 am

      @Dat Huynh it’s also trash

  9. Beckett Cornelsen

    November 7, 2021 at 5:33 pm

    Cool

  10. 300k

    November 7, 2021 at 5:40 pm

    nice

  11. D39R355ION(DEPRESSION)

    November 7, 2021 at 5:41 pm

    Frequency causes a specific vibration that matches the cameras images making it look like it’s reversed

    • Marius van Gent

      November 8, 2021 at 12:33 pm

      Similar to how car wheels sometimes seem to rotate in reverse

  12. LaylaMiki

    November 7, 2021 at 5:45 pm

    That’s brilliant !

  13. Marinus

    November 7, 2021 at 5:49 pm

    Speaker frequency vs Framerate vs Stroboscope. Lots of ways to do it 🙂

  14. Slim Khaled

    November 7, 2021 at 6:23 pm

    Laminar Flow is another fascinating water flowing you must take a look !

  15. Amityawsome

    November 7, 2021 at 7:21 pm

    It’s flowing towards really fast which causes the illusion

  16. Omaer 1

    November 7, 2021 at 8:55 pm

    Very Nice! MashAllah(SWT)

  17. Omaer 1

    November 7, 2021 at 8:56 pm

    ALHAMDULILLAH(SWT).

  18. Omaer 1

    November 7, 2021 at 8:56 pm

    ASTAGHFIRULLAH(SWT).

  19. kwaulite

    November 7, 2021 at 9:58 pm

    that water contains 24 frames per second

  20. Samtagri

    November 7, 2021 at 10:38 pm

    This is such an ooooooold trick

    • That Guy in the comment Section

      November 8, 2021 at 6:50 am

      and?

  21. Andrew Hobbs

    November 7, 2021 at 10:51 pm

    thanks for wasting my time

  22. Dhruv Gulati

    November 8, 2021 at 2:03 am

    Fourier tranaform visualization

  23. Blue Dragon

    November 8, 2021 at 3:31 am

    good

  24. Drew Blair

    November 8, 2021 at 4:07 am

    the frequency must have also made 1080p look like 240p

  25. Charlie Daniell

    November 8, 2021 at 5:00 am

    What’s the FPS of our eyes so we can make it look like that irl

    • Philip Gali

      November 8, 2021 at 9:17 am

      Hahahha

    • LifelessNerd

      November 8, 2021 at 2:35 pm

      You cannot

  26. Username

    November 8, 2021 at 5:00 am

    What’s the FPS of our eyes so we can make it look like that irl

  27. Definitely Not Vaughn

    November 8, 2021 at 5:00 am

    You look like Adrien Brody (Ofc in a nice way)

  28. Eve Mackenzie

    November 8, 2021 at 6:41 am

    this is a certified hood classic

    • krishna murli

      November 8, 2021 at 11:02 am

      cute lovely beagle

      /

  29. derrick Global

    November 9, 2021 at 2:37 am

    ????and we are mostly water ????‍♀️

  30. started farting

    November 9, 2021 at 1:50 pm

    My wife’s son loves the backwards water illusion.

  31. hasan kharfan

    November 10, 2021 at 4:37 am

    This is one of the better simpler explainations of this.

  32. The Animagus

    November 15, 2021 at 1:14 am

    Now we gotta get the backside of water to be an actual tourist attraction

  33. Mohamed AL sudani

    November 15, 2021 at 4:24 am

    Explaination for the rain trick in now you see me 2.

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