Comments on: Candle And The Mirror Optical Illusion

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:47:01 +0000

It’s just a candle in front of a painting! you guys think to hard and too much ;)

By: Danielle F.

Danielle F. — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:26:00 +0000

I don’t know about you guys but the smoke looks really fake. Maybe the smoke was added later, but the candle was still out anyway.

By: Dacob

Dacob — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:50:00 +0000

at first i belived that there were to candles at different angles if u dont belive please take a look at this why is smoke blowing to the put out candle? in the bottom right hand corner of the mirror smoke is blowing to the candle

By: MadCat

MadCat — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:26:00 +0000

Have you guys thought the actual illusion may be colour based? Perhaps EVERY object was “grey”, and the only true colour represented was the light candle. Perhaps the illusion is simply just a matter of us perceiving it as black/white white and going “photoshopped”.

By: Hazza

Hazza — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:16:00 +0000

the one on the rightr is a painting

By: turtlelover

turtlelover — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:00:00 +0000

that is cool…..

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:55:00 +0000

either Pepper’s Ghost illusion, google it if you don’t know what that is, or a window with a candle on either side, one’s been lit and one’s been blown out. Our science teacher showed us it a few years ago.

By: Kell

Kell — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:49:00 +0000

The candles are different sizes for a start.

i agree with ivh that its just a frame with 2 different candles.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:58:00 +0000

I know this isn’t photoshop. Some of you people don’t look hard enough, it’s actually just two candles, one was lit, and the other wasn’t, and there is no mirror, that’s what a real illusion looks like.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:47:00 +0000

If you look at the angle of the frame with respect to the picture, there is no way that the reflection in the mirror is of the candle in the picture. Laws of physics do not lie. Like someone else mentioned, there is a smudge on the mirror so it can’t be an empty frame. Also, in my opinion, it doesn’t look like a gray scale photo, just an old dull frame. There is nothing else in the picture that should be colorful that shows gray.

With regards to the previous comment, if you look at a candle very closely you will notice that the flame never really reaches the wick.