Comments on: Bended Lines Illusion

By: JetJagger

JetJagger — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 06:36:28 +0000

I am a graphic designer who opened this image in a photo editing program. The lines are, in fact, bent in the above image. The “diamonds” that appear to have convex walls are, in fact, convex. The images that appear to have concave walls are, in fact, concave.

I have seen this illusion on paper, and it works. It is not intended to be viewed as a pixelated image due to the “interpolative” nature of image editing programs (such as the one that was used to create the image) and the “interpretative” nature of monitors which displays images in pixels to emulate continuous tone but, in fact, is not mathematically accurate due to resolution factors.

I assure you, the red lines are not straight, and you cannot accurately validate this by using a sheet of paper held against your monitor. You need to copy the image to your image editing program, zoom in, and draw point-to-point lines.

Have fun with it.

-Jet-

By: kathleen b.

kathleen b. — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:20:52 +0000

i sorta already got it, but it’s a good(but easy) trick.

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 15:40:29 +0000

No, you’re wrong.

By: Will C

Will C — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:51:30 +0000

some are straight, some are wavy

Every other square bulges out from the paper showing a sliver of the white background. Every alternating square bulges under the paper showing no red line on some lines…

other lines are perfectly straight.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:40:23 +0000

I saw them straight in the first place =/

Does this mean I can be in MENSA?

By: HHHhhh

HHHhhh — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:52:31 +0000

you often spell bent wrong. there’s no such words as bended

By: Me, Myself, and iPod

Me, Myself, and iPod — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:21:04 +0000

i put a pencil on each side just to see if they were straight and it PROVES that they are straight! and I’ll tell you the truth… I am only 11 and i could figure that out! EASY…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 03:01:00 +0000

Ok there is a nail in the hammer which the weight of the head pushes the other end up… it’s all because of the nail the little shiny thing like an inch from the metal.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:51:00 +0000

No i held a piece of paper up to it and the lines still had a curve to them.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:25:00 +0000

THEY ARE ALL STRAIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!

I PUT A RULER AGAINST THE SCREEN AND TRYED IT ON MOST OF THE LINES AND THEY ARE STRAIGHT

By: smoky

smoky — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:22:00 +0000

hmm should it not be “bent” lines as opposed to “bended”?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:33:00 +0000

Since the moment I saw it, I saw that the red lines are straight. I don’t see at all how that can be confused as wavey.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:58:00 +0000

if you highlight the pic the lines will be straight
:)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 21:56:00 +0000

“Mat’s right. I opened this with paint and drew straight lines; they didn’t match. It’s a cool design though.”

I don’t know about you, but when I tried that, the Paint line folowed the line wich was alredy in the picture.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:55:00 +0000

you guys are lame
mats right
take a ruler
they arent straight