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I have trypophobia. Cannot believe this is a new design style.

xvector 7y ago
Same here. The front of the Mac Pro and the back of the XDR display physically nauseates me.
war1025 7y ago
I never had that problem until I read an article about that being a problem people had. And then I spent several years being very weirded out by evenly spaced holes in things. And then I got mostly over it. And now your comment has my skin tingling again at the thought....
hinkley 7y ago
I wonder if you can find an appropriately sized speaker cover to snap onto the front of it...
simongr3dal 7y ago
Word from the people who saw it first-hand at Apple's WWDC is that it is not a problem when you're looking at the machine AFK, because your vision has a depth sense, but video and images look very weird.
- sp332 7y ago
  When I first saw the ads I thought it was two flat pieces of metal with circles cut in each. It took a lot of photographs for me to understand the actual shape. So I can see a shift in perspective making a big difference in perception.
  - drifkin 7y ago
    Same! I didn't realize it wasn't just circles cut on two sheets of metal until I saw this video on their design page: https://www.apple.com/105/media/us/mac-pro/2019/36178e80-30fd-441c-9a5b-349c6365bb36/design/case-manufacturing/large_2x.mp4 https://www.apple.com/105/media/us/mac-pro/2019/36178e80-30f...
skyyler 7y ago
Have you made efforts to overcome the phobia?
cheeze 7y ago
Circular patterns? Been a design style for the past 10+ years. Tryophobia sounds like one of those "I have OCD" things because people are "so peculiar." I'm not discounting that folks may have a legitimate mental illness resulting from it, but that has to be an overwhelming minority of users.
- bananocurrency 7y ago
  I recommend googling things you don't understand instead of trying to shut down opinions.
- JudgeWapner 7y ago
  I too think it's a reddit-ism. Same with thalassohobia. Cool sub though with awesome pics.
- userbinator 7y ago
  I wouldn't exactly call it a "mental illness", but upon seeing such images I can feel my brain heating up in the same way as when I'm thinking of a difficult problem. My theory is that it's essentially overloading the edge detection (neural) circuitry, because the one thing that all such images have in common is they have plenty of circular edges, which are effectively edges in many directions simultaneously.
  - LeifCarrotson 7y ago
    Interesting theory. A similar mental problem is a plot element in the sci-fi novela "Blindsight" by Peter Watts: https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
  - defterGoose 7y ago
    I have fairly pronounced trypophobia too. I was under the impression that the leading theory is an evolutionary one; that certain burrowing insects will lay eggs in the skin causing a pattern of holes and that our brains have been trained to read this and other parasites. Yours is certainly interesting, though anecdotally I can look at a very regular pattern of holes and not feel the effect. It only really "bugs" me with more irregular, organic patterns.

Same here. The front of the Mac Pro and the back of the XDR display physically nauseates me.

I never had that problem until I read an article about that being a problem people had. And then I spent several years being very weirded out by evenly spaced holes in things. And then I got mostly over it. And now your comment has my skin tingling again at the thought....

hinkley 7y ago

I wonder if you can find an appropriately sized speaker cover to snap onto the front of it...

simongr3dal 7y ago

Word from the people who saw it first-hand at Apple's WWDC is that it is not a problem when you're looking at the machine AFK, because your vision has a depth sense, but video and images look very weird.

sp332 7y ago
When I first saw the ads I thought it was two flat pieces of metal with circles cut in each. It took a lot of photographs for me to understand the actual shape. So I can see a shift in perspective making a big difference in perception.
- drifkin 7y ago
  Same! I didn't realize it wasn't just circles cut on two sheets of metal until I saw this video on their design page: https://www.apple.com/105/media/us/mac-pro/2019/36178e80-30fd-441c-9a5b-349c6365bb36/design/case-manufacturing/large_2x.mp4 https://www.apple.com/105/media/us/mac-pro/2019/36178e80-30f...

skyyler 7y ago

Have you made efforts to overcome the phobia?

cheeze 7y ago

Circular patterns? Been a design style for the past 10+ years. Tryophobia sounds like one of those "I have OCD" things because people are "so peculiar." I'm not discounting that folks may have a legitimate mental illness resulting from it, but that has to be an overwhelming minority of users.

bananocurrency 7y ago
I recommend googling things you don't understand instead of trying to shut down opinions.
JudgeWapner 7y ago
I too think it's a reddit-ism. Same with thalassohobia. Cool sub though with awesome pics.
userbinator 7y ago
I wouldn't exactly call it a "mental illness", but upon seeing such images I can feel my brain heating up in the same way as when I'm thinking of a difficult problem. My theory is that it's essentially overloading the edge detection (neural) circuitry, because the one thing that all such images have in common is they have plenty of circular edges, which are effectively edges in many directions simultaneously.
- LeifCarrotson 7y ago
  Interesting theory. A similar mental problem is a plot element in the sci-fi novela "Blindsight" by Peter Watts: https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
- defterGoose 7y ago
  I have fairly pronounced trypophobia too. I was under the impression that the leading theory is an evolutionary one; that certain burrowing insects will lay eggs in the skin causing a pattern of holes and that our brains have been trained to read this and other parasites. Yours is certainly interesting, though anecdotally I can look at a very regular pattern of holes and not feel the effect. It only really "bugs" me with more irregular, organic patterns.