1) our work is selected as one of four highlight papers from 518 ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 technical paper submissions and 2) a recent article (2008 Sept. Issue) published at Newsweek/Russia reports our research. Our visual system is much more complicated than a state-of-theart camera. "I know it when I see it" may not always be correct, because sometimes our visual system misleads us. Illusory motion is a very interesting phenomenon characterized by apparent motion in a still image. For example,

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... a [1] demonstrated a remarkable illusion art called "Rotating snakes". This example (Figure 1) shows a very strong illusory motion that can be perceived in a single image. The circular snakes appear to rotate "spontaneously," although the image is static. We call this kind of illusion art as "Self-animating images (SAIs)".