An optical illusion nobody has seen before
Author’s claim. Posted before Fable 5.2 came out. The author called it Fable 5.5, the name rumors gave the next Fable. We can’t verify which model ran.
A 50-second motion piece built around a single optical illusion. The author says the request was for an illusion that had never been made or seen before.
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Our note
Titled "The Clockwork Ring", the piece starts with a red ring broken into eight arcs over a grey disc of wavy stripes, with a white fixation dot in the middle. Captions ask you to keep your eyes on that dot: the ring flashes in the same place every time, yet seems to tick round like a cog, one tooth per flash. A "Stripes hidden" stage swaps the pattern for flat grey to show it is a plain circle, and "Stripes back" brings the cog motion back. The final caption puts the teeth down to the viewer's brain. The author shared no prompt; whether the illusion is new is their claim.
Written by The Frontier Brief after watching the video (Nov 5, 2026). It describes what is on screen; we have not run the work ourselves.
Prompt
Not known. We have not found a prompt published by the author.
What we know
- Model
- Listed under Fable 5.2. The author wrote Claude Fable 5.5 (author’s claim)
- What we checked
- From the open awesome-fable5-5-videos list (MIT, Copyright (c) 2026 yihui-dev). On Oct 31, 2026 the post was still live on X; which model actually ran is the author’s claim.
Video from @imjustnewatai’s post on X, credited to the author. Want it taken down? Email support@fable5.app.
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