By Vurdlak on March 12, 2006, with 224 Comments
See a new color you’ve never seen before!!…Well… at least never before on your monitor. It’s a startling example of how poor the green/cyan element is on TVs and monitors generally. The colour you are about to witness is actually true Cyan … a colour that is heavily diluted on the vast optical illusions 10 majority of monitors (thanks to colour pollution). It’s a pity one needs an optical illusion to demonstrate this, but at least you can see what you’ve been missing ;-) Anyway on with the illusion….
Stare at the white dot in the centre of the red circle. The longer – the better (two minutes and you’ll get a much stronger effect). Always try to keep focused on the white dot. It’ll be worth it.
Soon after staring, you’ll start to see a thin rim of light around the edge. Don’t stop staring though yet! Wait another minute – keeping your head perfectly still.
Once you’ve done this, slowly – move your head backwards – making sure to keep your eyes focused on the dot at all times. The circle’s rim will glow brilliantly with true Cyan! Keep on moving your head slowly backwards, and it’ll glow very hot!…
The blue/cyan colour chart to the right isn’t part of the illusion, but there to demonstrate that the ultra cyan you have just seen is not in the monitor’s color palette! It should be, but isn’t.
It’s an amazing effect.
(70 votes)
wow that was amazing and soooo coooool!It’s amazing how much different it looked from what they show like on the television and computer.
THATS SO NEAT!!! My hand was so blue for a minute i thought it was actually painted or something.Really neat illusion
im still seeing the circle…but that was cool..still wonder why we cant see it on comps
wow! i didint think it would work but it did and i onley looked for about 10 seconds darn my attention spand
My eyes started tearing up so I had to close my eyes after bout a minute…
If you close your eyes then look at your hand you can see it, too.
(Sorry if this has already been said, I didn;t read all the cmments. @_@)
so…beautiful…so…blue……..
WOW THAT WAS SO NICE!!!!!!!!!!!I nevr saw somthin like that of my life!! Thanks alot ur site rocks!
i Think This Is A Wickedddddd Illusion!!… The Colour U End Up Seeing Is The Best Colour I Have Ever Seen In My Now 15 Years Of Life!!….i LOVE it!!
Is it okay that im seeing a circular blue tint everywhere now?
My School Was Making A “Newspaper Day” We Had To Make A Whole Newspaper In One Day And I Loved This Sooo Much… I Put It In My Page Of the Newspaper. Goooooo Me!
Im Hannah By The Way♥
the only prob is that i see a cyan coloured circle over the colour chart.
Oh wow!! what a pretty color!!! that is so cool!!!
WOW!!!!! thas d best illition in d whole site.
ps. r d effects supposed 2 b permanent cause i did it like 2 minutes ago n im still seen the blue cirle……EVERYWHER!!!!!!!!!!
IS DRIVIN ME CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!
i agree with lady after u look at it anbd move ur head to another pert of the screen u still see the colour. totally awesome tho.
WOAH, that was pretty. but im still seeing a pretty shade of blue circle thougt, it was really worth it. very preety!!
DUDE!
hey i figured if you cover one eye while doing this when your done your vision isn’t as messed up!
how do you get rid of the blue circle? lol
its a really good illusion and i love the colour!!! :)
the circle kinda follows you round it followed me i looked at my tv and it was there o ps before i saw the blue glow i saw a maroonish brown glow circling the red circle
the blue follows me i looked at my tv and the circle and before i saw blue i saw a maroonish brown color circling the red circle
Oh dear god!…that’s awesome! the cyan circle is still floating in my eyes as I type!
This isn’t really an illusion, it’s to do with complementary colours. The chart is of some shades, but probably not the complementary colour of that particular red. Nice cyan though. Awesuuuum…
Whoa! I can still see it lol that has to be on of the best on this site!
WOAH!!! THAT WAS TOTALLY AWESOME! that never get’s old! I’ve been doing it so many times now…that color is sooooooo pretty! that’s the color that I want my birthday car to be!!! and my ipod, but they only come in so many colors…
This is cool! But I see a blue circle in my head when I look at something white
WHY ISNT TRUE CYAN IN MONITORS IT RUINS EVERY OUTDOOR SHOT THAT is CRAP IT IS MADE OF FAIL AND AIDS
Woh! How cool is that?! I can still see a blue circle wherever my eyes go. That’s brilliant! When you move your head back, you just get the full effect of the colour!
It’s a VERY nice colour
LIKE O-M-G!*!*!* ~!…..WOAH…..!~ MY EYEZ, LIKE, FEEL WIERD! U JUST DON’T KNOW HOW MUCH I ABSOLOOTELY <3 THAT BEAUTIFUL COLOUR! I PROBLY NEED 2 DYE MY CHILD’S HAIR THAT WONDERFUL COLOUR! HIS NAME IS SAM AND HE IS TWO, AND WOULD ABSOLOOTELY ADORE HIS HAIR MUCH MUCH BETTER IF HIS HAIR WAS CYIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!O-M-G!
i think it would be better if we all just pooped on the world.
That is a really pretty colour! I love it!
Um..this is soo cool. Can we see this clour becuase our minds allow us to see it or is it just some computer made up thing? Im just asking!!!Anyways does this make us dumb?
My retinas are totally branded with the blue circle! The further away I moved my head, the bigger the cyan colored circle got until it started going out into the white part outside of the rectangle! It’s evil that that color doesn’t exist on screens… now when I look at my hand, it’s all blueish, and the further away my eyes are from my hand, the more blue area on it! It looked like a blue light on my hand…
wow that is so cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
OMG! I love that color! I’m gonna go paint my room like that now!
My mouth was shaped into something like –> :O
It’s a great illusion
the model looks like and ipod
nothing special if you can do that your very speical
it’s just so beautiful and such a pure blue. such a gorgeous color
OMG i love this illusion. may i ask how long the blue circle stays with you . i love this colour
It’s a nice illusion, but it did originally come from Skytopia.com (check archive.org for proof). Try to give credit where due if poss :P Thx :D
it is a beatiful colour i love it soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much. I cant belive how pretty that colour looks
BUT MY EYES HURT
It won’t go away ahhhh. xD Interesting, I’ve never looked at something for so long. o_o
oh cool…after watching this….star at any blank colour..preferably white walls or a white desktop..n ul still see a cyan circle!
Nah….boring! Just more blue! : o P
“IT WAS SOOOOO COOOOOL!!!!!!!!
It was a very pretty color.”
sick! beautiful color. im gonna try it more than once.
it is such a beautiful colour! i wish my eyes were that blue. it is still stained in my eyes though ti is 5 mins later. it still works really well if you stare at it for about 15 secs
so coooool!!!!! cnn should show this. LOL it would make it less boring
that was the best illusion i have ever seen :), also, i saw weird designs in the red circle when i stared at it, then a blue-black ring formed in it. anyone else see that?
This illusion made me think there was a blue stain on my bed afterwards XP
Cool.
Pretty color too.
wow…gorgeous colour. while i was staring at the dot, it seems like the red isnt really red…?
Wow! Awesome illusion! After a while i can see the origianal red color. Wierd!
OH MY BEDFORDSHIRE!!! That cyan is really sonmething scary blue circle in my vision now ahhh:D
Now im seeing that cyan BEAUTIFUL dot everywhere i look, truely is an amazing illusion. I wish my eyes were that color. I wish you could just copy that dot color and take it in and get a paint color like that. I love that color!
omg that’s an amazing colour
Wow, I really haven’t seen the colour before! And I only stared for about a minute.
Quite strange…
The first illusion with no one link in the explaining text…
Or maybe this is another illusion?
The links are there but i can’t see them! Nor the mouse pointer!!!!
i was like whatever right when i stopped looking at it but now that i was reading the comments that damn cyan circle is still in my sight,Nice
thats my new favorite color:)
omg its like i see a blue dot everywhere now! weird!
go into paint and try diffrent colour green gives you an ultra violet colour
Its been one week the illusion was still there! I still see it! Someone help me!
Oh wow! That’s pretty cool!! It’s just that now I’m seeing a cyan circle everywhere :S
my ipod is that color.
So I stared at this right before I went to bed and dreamt in this colour.
after i looked at it there was a cyan circle following where my eyes were, cool!
i saw a sailboat my eyes hurt oh….. im color blind!!! dont use this seriously omfg aaaaa!
omgthis was like TOTALLY AWESOME thank you so much for sharing this i did like 20 times all the times it worked! im gonna do it again :0)
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wow!!!! thats awesome…
for some reason it didn’t work at first, but when i scrolled down it followed me everywhere i looked. Great post! i wonder if you can do the reverse of all of the colors?
Wow, that one is truly amazing.
The first thing i wanted to do when i saw it was take a picture of it, but then i realized…
I`ve seen similar stuff, but this is nice also..
oh my gosh this is the most beautiful color i’ve ever seen!!
wow
*stares in awe again*
the afterimage laasts too long. its as if its permanently burnt onto the retina.
wm, im #155,; i put that comment in November and nowits Jan! U tell me thatnoone else left a comment?
WOW niiiice
Ever heard the song “Brand New Colony” by The Postal Service???
This is what the sky wud look like!!!!
shit! it’s the most beautiful illusion and color i’ve ever seen for my entire life! from now on, cyan is my favorite color!
That’s a beautiful color…:)
Get this blue circle out of my vision!!!
wtfdtigo? only 5 people ahead of me from Jan and now its May?