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Illusions - How can this be true?

Michael's twirling dancer link generated a lot of chatter, but this one seems even less fathomable to me

Michele's posted an image as an example of your brain messing with your head (as it were). In this image, the squares marked A and B are the same colour!

Don't believe me? I didn't either, so I snipped a small part of the image and placed it in Paint.

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Still didn't look possible, so I drew a rectangle next to the image, split it in 2 and used the eye dropper tool to pick up the colour first from square A (and filled the left segment) and then from B (and filled the right segment).

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As my son would say - "Freaky!"

Published Thursday, November 08, 2007 12:40 PM by acoat

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# I say perceptions, you say illusions ...

Andrew Coates has a picture of what he coins an "illusion". I prefer to think of it as a perception

Thursday, November 08, 2007 12:07 AM by @ Head

# re: Illusions - How can this be true?

I didn't believe...

I grabbed it into Photoshop, got out the eyedropper and scratched my head as the 2 colours indeed came up the same.

What the?

Thursday, November 08, 2007 9:17 AM by Jamie Osborn

# re: Illusions - How can this be true?

Stumbled upon this today

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bOP37A1EhEs

Friday, November 09, 2007 1:21 AM by mkordahi

# re: Illusions - How can this be true?

This made my day.  

I managed to color inside the black lines and solve this illusion by the time this was forwarded to me.

Thanks for the tease.

Friday, November 09, 2007 8:31 PM by drink le croix, it'll make you smarter
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