Although this line of research began in an effort to answer a practical musical question, its surprising findings suggests several implications for existing theories of sensory integration. To continue exploring this illusion, we have created a series of point-light abstractions of the original gestures. These abstractions hold many advantages, and can be manipulated to move in a variety of ways. As they abstractions capture salient properties of the original illusion (Schutz & Kubovy, 2009), they are useful in facilitating further research. This has proven helpful in exploring why and how this illusion works. For example, by deconstructing different aspects of these gestures, we have learned that it is the time of the post-impact motion that governs the illusion – rather than the pre-impact motion or the time, distance covered, velocity, or acceleration of the post-impact motion (Armontrout, Schutz, & Kubovy, 2009). Because the flexible nature of the animations means they offer endless possiblities for future research, we plan to continue using and expanding this software in the future to serve as a research tool for others interested in further study of sensory integration and/or the synthesis of smooth motion animations through the simply specification of x and y coordinate values for joints (without the need for complicated programming in MatLab).