Optical Illusions anyone?

[Tour of Duty]

i dont get it?

Cover the surrounding squares and you'll see the same color.

[mel25]

The key is not just the green thing, it's the switch from light to shadow. It is hard to picture, but if you use Photoshop or Paint to extract the colors, you'll see it is identical.

you lost me too dogg. are you sayin the letters are written in the same color, or the actual squares are the same color?

[zoony]

Cool, huh?

LOL- I'm calling shenanigans. No way thats the same color. I blocked out the rest of the picture even with paper

[JaimeDeCurry]

LOL- I'm calling shenanigans. No way thats the same color. I blocked out the rest of the picture even with paper

Paste it into paint and check it out. They are. Your brain is just so conditioned to "shadow = darker" that it makes you see it as darker no matter what.

[dockeryfan]

Do you see an old women or a young women?

I always see the lady with the feather. I have to really try to see the old lady at first.

[Winning Season Please!]

LOL- I'm calling shenanigans. No way thats the same color. I blocked out the rest of the picture even with paper

Extract the color data with photoshop...

[Winning Season Please!]

What direction is she spinning?

[dockeryfan]

What direction is she spinning?

I can't see anything but clockwise. I've tried this one before.

[China]

What direction is she spinning?

This one always gets me. If I focus, I can make her switch directions. It's weird.

[dockeryfan]

All the lines in this are straight.

[Capt. Kaos]

The Impossible Triangle

[China]

The Impossible Triangle

Very Escheresque.

[MonkFan8]

Lateral inhibition is sweet.

My personal favorites: Mueller-Lyer



And a selective attention test (video)

[motorhead]

This one is pretty cool.

Albert Einstein Marilyn Monroe Illusion

When you look at this picture close range you see Albert Einstein.




Now stand up and take several steps back, roughly 15 feet away,
It will become... Marilyn Monroe.

[AsburySkinsFan]

Photoshop says they are the same
I took a sample of each block, not the letter and placed it on the white space, appropriately labeled.
Then I opened the color editor for each sample and did a screen capture, over laying the second screen capture on the first with the menus open, for the A sample I had to delete the surrounding material so the B sample would show through. If you look at the color numbers, they are the same.