Fantastic Optical Illusion

[mjah]

How many colors do you see?

Count 'em up.












Now that you've finished, be advised that the correct answer is three. Not four.

- Magenta
- Orange
- Green-blue

That's right: The green and blue are actually the same color.

Explanation at the Bad Astronomy Blog

[Wingman44]

Wow, I thought 4, that's pretty amazing. You can see that the Blue and Green are actually the same color by slowly paging down until there is only about a 1/4 inch of the picture left on the screen. Then the blue and green both look green.

[Capt. Kaos]

http://www.extremeskins.com/showthre...tical+illusion

there are some really cool illusions in there, my favorite happens to be post #9

I have had numerous arguements over that one, even after breaking out gimp and showing them with color picker. I am assuming I will have the same road to travel with this one.

[PiLfan]

That's right: The green and blue are actually the same color.

Fascinating.


Of course the way some people drive around here, you'd think green and red were the same color.

[FanboyOf91]

Crazy stuff there.

[mjah]

Fascinating.


Over course the way some people drive around here, you'd think green and red were also the same color.

(Kidding...)

[JMS]

I visited disney land with my 5 year old. She wanted to go on the haunted house and got very frightenned by the ghosts and such... Wife really blasted me for letting her go....

I set out to redeam myself by showing my daughter how the effects were done.

The Pepper's ghost effect was a fun thing to duplicate for holoween last year. All you need is a strong light, 60$ worth of plexiglass from Home Depot and some wood to keep the plexiglass in place.

The principle is the same as the glare on your windsheild when somebody durns on a light inside the car in the evening.

Daughter was still scared though.

[China]

[S.T.real,lights,out]

Thats pretty cool....i still say 4...even after reading the expl...

[Jumbo]

That's a good one, China (the new one). I should dig out a bunch of mine from the Gestalt studies.

[S.T.real,lights,out]

http://www.extremeskins.com/showthre...tical+illusion

there are some really cool illusions in there, my favorite happens to be post #9

I have had numerous arguements over that one, even after breaking out gimp and showing them with color picker. I am assuming I will have the same road to travel with this one.

Yea, i still cant get that to work.

[dfitzo53]

Wow, I thought 4, that's pretty amazing. You can see that the Blue and Green are actually the same color by slowly paging down until there is only about a 1/4 inch of the picture left on the screen. Then the blue and green both look green.

Funny, I would say they both look blue.

Point is, they're the same color.

[S.T.real,lights,out]

Not sure if it's fantastic...but its funny.

[greenspandan]

wow, really convincing illusion. i opened it in photoshop and yeah, the "green" and "blue" are exactly the same color. (rgb: 0 255 150)

[TD_washingtonredskins]

Once I read that it was the case and looked for it, you can start to tell. But at first glance, they look much different. Very cool illusion.