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Offline bijou

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Optical Illusion
« on: October 17, 2010, 07:54:31 AM »


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I spotted This at Beware of Geeks and it intrigued me. I love a good optical illusion.
Apparently squares A and B are the same colour. It's just your perception of the shadow that makes them look different.

Him who would warn us of geeks did a cut and paste of the two squares to compare them. Surely enough he came up with this:
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http://fuelinjectedmoose.blogspot.com/2010/10/optical-illusion.html

I thought this was cool. I've spent ages looking at it and am still fooled. 
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Re: Optical Illusion
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2010, 08:11:43 AM »
No, they're wrong...... see attached pic
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Re: Optical Illusion
« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2010, 08:12:19 AM »
I don't get how this works ; but I've played with it in GIMP and it works...


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« Last Edit: October 17, 2010, 08:29:06 AM by LC EFA »
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Re: Optical Illusion
« Reply #3 on: October 17, 2010, 08:17:10 AM »
don't work in Paint:
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Re: Optical Illusion
« Reply #4 on: October 17, 2010, 10:36:47 AM »
Quote from: Thor on October 17, 2010, 08:17:10 AM
don't work in Paint:

Yes is does, you have to make sure you actually compare squares A a B though



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Re: Optical Illusion
« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2010, 09:09:23 PM »
Very cool
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Re: Optical Illusion
« Reply #6 on: October 19, 2010, 05:28:08 PM »
The VRWC srtikes again!
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Re: Optical Illusion
« Reply #7 on: October 27, 2010, 01:07:37 PM »
I've seen this before. How can our eyes be so deceiving?
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