Optical Illusion

[Chronos-X]

I'm sure a lot of you have seen this before but for those that haven't

Both of these are amazing I actually put the above into psp and cut out sections of each shape - they are the same colour !!

 

[The Pat]

Seen that one before, still impresses me though.

 

[Garp]

Can I get a re re re-post?

Only if the crowd says bo-selecta.

 

[DarkShadow]

That's cool!

 

[Messiah Khan]

Both of these are amazing I actually put the above into psp and cut out sections of each shape - they are the same colour !!

Same here. I refused to believe that it was real until I put it in Photoshop.

 

[Fantom]

yes we only see a very small amount in colour, and our brain paints the colour into the image we dont look directly at

if that makes sense

 

[ScarySquirrel]

That is very cool, took me a while to do it as i just dont trust anything that says 'stare at the screen for 30 seconds'

Those screming things scare the hell out of me

 

[Amleto]

Same here. I refused to believe that it was real until I put it in Photoshop.

haha, me too. forever the 'scepticist'

 

[Big Spender]

well i dont have photoshop so does anybody want to prove that one with the squares being the same shade of grey? looks like 2 different colours to me!

 

[Inquisitor]

staring at the dot makes no difference to me ,it appears in color all the time unless I move the mouse onto the picture

The instructions are there for a reason :/

 

[Hudzy]

well i dont have photoshop so does anybody want to prove that one with the squares being the same shade of grey? looks like 2 different colours to me!

Paint will work. Use the colour extracting tool.

 

[Big Spender]

Paint will work. Use the colour extracting tool.

ok just tried it, now that is freaky! my brain hurts

 

[iCraig]

I called bull**** over and over again until I sampled the colours myself.

I had never been so owned in my life by an internet email.

They truly are the same colour, it's amazing how much surrounding colours affect our colour perception.

 

[Inquisitor]

It's a very simple optical illusion; it's simply to do with the colour image being 'burnt' into your retina, resulting in seeing the opposite of those colours.

Some quick Photoshopping reveals that this is the image you are actually seeing until you move your eyes:

 

[William]

It's a very simple optical illusion; it's simply to do with the colour image being 'burnt' into your retina, resulting in seeing the opposite of those colours.

Some quick Photoshopping reveals that this is the image you are actually seeing until you move your eyes:

You inverted the non-mouse image yes.

Rhodopsin powah!

 

[GSXRMovistar]

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I'm sure a lot of you have seen this before but for those that haven't

Had a copy of that for some years now and it still has to be the best illusion I've ever seen, very very cool.

 

[Inquisitor]

You inverted the non-mouse image yes.

Not quite

The non-mouse image doesn't contain any detail, and its colour is too saturated. Rather than just inverting it, you invert it, and then apply it as a faint overlay to the original image, which provides the detail (more specifically, the Soft Light blending mode in PS).

 

[Sepheh]

Wow thats a pretty awesome optical illusion!

 

[Gilly]

That second one with the cylinder shadow has been posted here a few times (first by me in ~2001). No-one ever believes it. Its a superb illusion.

 

[neojay]

Whoa thats cool!