An Optical Illusion: It's moving!
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smalltalk
monkey business
Yeah, the persistance of vision....
voodoocat
Finally ok with Arizona
I had a hard time seeing them as the same shade of gray. I plan on saving it and using the color picker in photoshop to compare when I get home
Stapel
FIAT 850 coupé
That shady grey is amazing! I copy pasted pieces of the squares, before believing it!
Plexus
Architeuthidae puericomedentis
Both of these freak me out...
CurtSibling
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Mind-bendingly cool!
Colonel Kraken
Deity
I love these types of things. I also loved the short-lived fad of those pictures that, when you stare at them, an image pops out at you. Very cool stuff.
cgannon64
BOB DYLAN'S ROCKIN OUT!
The first pic was the best, IMO. Every time I looked slightly away, they would start spinning...
All of them are cool.
@ Plexus: Is it supposed to move, or am I crazy?
All of them are cool.
@ Plexus: Is it supposed to move, or am I crazy?
Nice one Plexus. If you scroll on the first one, it DOES look like it's moving. 
Oh, and the pictures at the top of the thread aren't showing.
EDIT - now I see it. I've seen that before - someone showed it to me on MSN IM.
Oh, and my elementary school cafeteria had the grid illusion on the walls as part of the room "decoration".
Oh, and the pictures at the top of the thread aren't showing.EDIT - now I see it. I've seen that before - someone showed it to me on MSN IM.
Oh, and my elementary school cafeteria had the grid illusion on the walls as part of the room "decoration".
Like the ones above?
It doesn't move, change colors, or anything...
smalltalk
monkey business
Plexus, wow, especially the first is awesome.
The vertical and horizontal lines seem to bend and twist. It would make a good table blanket ...
The vertical and horizontal lines seem to bend and twist. It would make a good table blanket ...
Akka
Moody old mage.
Err... What do you mean, "coloured version" ?
This version is already in colours...
That's the very point of the illusion
If you really want to see a proof, look :
See the link between the two squares, and how it's the same colour
Cilpot
Pretentious Schmuck
It looks like the link has a gradient 
Anyway, these are all soo cool!!!
Anyway, these are all soo cool!!!
Mrogreturns
The Ghost Who Posts
Originally posted by Cilpot
It looks like the link has a gradient
Anyway, these are all soo cool!!!
If you obscure everything but the link- you can see that it doesn`t. I think this illusion has 2 aspects to it.
1. The different shades of the labels "A" and "B"
2. The fact that square "B" is percieved to be in a shadow.
Cilpot
Pretentious Schmuck
I just noticed it. That's got to be one of the coolest illutions I have seen
Akka
Moody old mage.
In fact, the illusion is based on our brain being smart
All the illusion works because there is a shadow cast by the big pillar. As there is a shadow our brain automatically assume that everything under it is shadowed, so should not be as dark as we see it. So we "see" that the grey is of a lighter shade than the other in full light.
It's an illusion built on the fact that we are able to automatically understand our surroundings and adapt our perceptions to them
All the illusion works because there is a shadow cast by the big pillar. As there is a shadow our brain automatically assume that everything under it is shadowed, so should not be as dark as we see it. So we "see" that the grey is of a lighter shade than the other in full light.
It's an illusion built on the fact that we are able to automatically understand our surroundings and adapt our perceptions to them
Mrogreturns
The Ghost Who Posts
Originally posted by Akka
In fact, the illusion is based on our brain being smart
All the illusion works because there is a shadow cast by the big pillar. As there is a shadow our brain automatically assume that everything under it is shadowed, so should not be as dark as we see it. So we "see" that the grey is of a lighter shade than the other in full light.
It's an illusion built on the fact that we are able to automatically understand our surroundings and adapt our perceptions to them
Er yes as I said. I disagree, however, that this system is "smart" it is efficient and normally correct of course, but it is also inflexible and not open to modulation by knowledge outside the perceptual system hence the illusion.
