incredible illusion
December 28th, 2003
from this thread - it’s certainly one of the best ones i’ve seen.

the square labled “A” and the square labeled “B” are the SAME COLOR
don’t believe it?
I tried to do a little photoshop trick.

Still don’t believe it? You should save the picture and use a paint program and use the color selection tool to test. It’s incredible how our eyes deceive us.
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December 28th, 2003 at 11:02 pm December 28th, 2003 at 11:20 pmi still dont get it X_X
also if you dont mind could i put your link on my blog/xanga cus i really like reading you stuff ^_^
i saved it and opened it on psp and used the eyedrop and they are the same : #6B696B ..that is very weird because one look much more lighter.
That’s crazy!!
even though i tested it with photoshop, i still can’t believe it! XD
This is a very clever 3D rendering that plays with a popular optical illusion. I don’t agree with the theory that our eyes decieve us; our eyes actually have learned to compare spatially related objects and are doing the work on the fly so as we don’t have to think about it — if you wan’t to short circuit this automated process, try squinting your eyes and looking at the image through your eyelashes (a common artists technique) This will focus your eyes on the greys, eliminate most of the colors and in order to make out what is blurry, your eyes/brain will make thier decision based on contrast. The squares do look alike through squinted eyes.
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that is so cool! its so weired though.
Wow, they do look the same through squinted eyes. That makes sense, because you can focus better on the two squares and not all the busyness around them, which creates the illusion in the first place.
its true its really true! guess u cant beleive everything u see… right?
we had to take it into ps to see for ourselves
very cool

Yes, as the saying goes “dont beleive everything you see”… So true