Best ever optical illusion

[Mathilda]

This was so good I had to post it for you all to see and try.
In the picture below squares A and B are the same colour.

Don't beleive it?
Copy the picture into paint and put them next to each other to see for yourself.
What's your favourite optical illusion?

 

[Chukchi Husky]

They look the same to me.

 

[nonconformist]

That one is truly incredible, I tried it befroe.

I find this one pretty good too: (it's a movie)
http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2004/m-dragon-illusion-p1.php

 

[Corlindale]

It's pretty cool. My favourite is this one. The image is completely static, but it certainly doesn't appear to be:

 

[Lozzy_Ozzy]

Holy mother...

Thats amazing!

But then again, i'm a big sucker for optical illusions.

 

[pboily]

This was so good I had to post it for you all to see and try.
In the picture below squares A and B are the same colour.
Don't beleive it?
Copy the picture into paint and put them next to each other to see for yourself.
What's your favourite optical illusion?

What's the explication for this one? Even after I have tried it and seen it to be true, I don't believe it...

 

[nonconformist]

What's the explication for this one? Even after I have tried it and seen it to be true, I don't believe it...

I think our brain makes it out into the context it's suppposed to be, including the pattern.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

I tried it (by covering up on my screen all but a small part of each square) and sure enough, same color. The human eye (and brain) is an interesting thing - how we adjust data (in this case, color) to better fit the context (ie surrounding colors/contrast).

I could actually see square "A" get lighter as I covered up the surrounding squares, and "B" get darker. That's the best way to try it - put your thumb and index fingers on each hand together to make a small gap, them put that gap over each square. Weird!

 

[Elrohir]

This was so good I had to post it for you all to see and try.
In the picture below squares A and B are the same colour.

Don't beleive it?
Copy the picture into paint and put them next to each other to see for yourself.
What's your favourite optical illusion?

I cut and pasted them together, and they didn't look the same to me.

 

[Perfection]

I suppose I better post it before someone else does

 

[Phlegmak]

Damn! Perfection beat me to it.

 

[Perfection]

I cut and pasted them together, and they didn't look the same to me.

They look the same to me...

 

[slip79]

Holy cr4p!!!
They are the same colour.

 

[The Last Conformist]

They look the same to me.

Not to scare you or anything, but that's a symptom of schizophrenia.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Schizophrenia?

 

[Erik Mesoy]

It's pretty cool. My favourite is this one. The image is completely static, but it certainly doesn't appear to be
<removed for briefness>

TLC, if you know so much about this, what does it signify that I can make the image stand still? Extreme focusing ability? Wierd eyes?

 

[The Last Conformist]

Schizophrenia?

Are you asking whether I really meant schizophrenia, or what schizophrenia is?

In the former case, yes, I do, and in the second case, it's a severe mental condition. A kind of insanity, if you will.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I have a severe form of Asperger's Syndrome.

 

[The Last Conformist]

TLC, if you know so much about this, what does it signify that I can make the image stand still? Extreme focusing ability? Wierd eyes?

I don't know, but FWIW I can do it too, with an effort of will.

This isn't really a subject I know alot about - it's just that I read an article about schizophrenics and their ability to "see thru" certain kinds of optical illusions a while ago.

 

[EolTheDarkElf]

Yea, it's amazing.

I did one thing - I put it into gimp and drew a white outline around the B sqare. After that I saw them as the same colour. But after pressing Ctrl-Z (for undo), when the outline suddenly dissapears, you get that short moment of confusion. You feel compelled to take a second look, because something is suddenly wrong with what you see. There is this short moment of "reevaluation". And then on second look, the colours are different again.

Interestingly, erasing the green cylinder doesn't change anything (for me).

Really neat.