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Title: Optical Illusion
Post by: bijou on October 17, 2010, 07:54:31 AM

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__rpFHa7-ywo/TLisQ_r4oOI/AAAAAAAAAUI/JJ-kTtneH2U/s1600/IllusionMain.png)

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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. 

Title: Re: Optical Illusion
Post by: Thor on October 17, 2010, 08:11:43 AM

No, they're wrong...... see attached pic

Title: Re: Optical Illusion
Post by: LC EFA 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...


 :tinfoil2:

E2A

(http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j191/lc_efa/uploads/IllusionMain.jpg)

Title: Re: Optical Illusion
Post by: Thor on October 17, 2010, 08:17:10 AM

don't work in Paint:

Title: Re: Optical Illusion
Post by: Celtic Rose 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

(http://i52.tinypic.com/jakppj.png)

Title: Re: Optical Illusion
Post by: littlelamb on October 17, 2010, 09:09:23 PM

Very cool

Title: Re: Optical Illusion
Post by: Wineslob on October 19, 2010, 05:28:08 PM

The VRWC srtikes again!

Title: Re: Optical Illusion
Post by: soleil on October 27, 2010, 01:07:37 PM

I've seen this before. How can our eyes be so deceiving?