This is one of the better optical illusions I saw lately. Image below is infact animated gif, which loops forever. What you have to do, is look at the blue and yellow negative, and then after 30 seconds or so, the photo of a mountain will appear . Eventhough the mountain you see is greyscaled (black & white), your eyes are tricked and image looks like it's in full-color (until you move your eyes though...) This fascinating work was created and subitted to us by John Sadowski and you should check John's website to find even more innovative posts like this one!






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  1. Anonymous James 

    Woah, that's nuts.

  2. Anonymous avenger13 

    awsome :D

  3. Anonymous underdog5004 

    pretty sweet.

  4. Anonymous adam 

    thats crazy!!!!

  5. Anonymous Farted 

    OOOOHHHHH...... I get it.

  6. Anonymous Chelsea 

    no offense but its fake i was reading the directions and it then turned black and white.But i jumped lol

  7. Anonymous mangoman 

    this is created by exhausting the chemicals that are responsible for seeing colors in your eyes. If you look at a color too long the chemical that tells you what color you are looking at runs out, and you are just seeing a memory of that color. When you look away that color's opposite is visable... so the picture you look at first is the oppisite of the colors you would see naturally, so when the greyscale image pops up you project the correct colors onto it

  8. Anonymous jenn 

    hahaha some people's explainations for illusions just make me laugh. mangoman, that was....HILARIOUS

    Nice loop though

  9. Anonymous cubicles 

    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
    THAT ROOOCKS

  10. Anonymous designnathan 

    that is too cool!!!

  11. Anonymous virus 

    lol jenn, i hope that your kidding or 12 years old at least!

    very nice color trick :D !!!

  12. Anonymous Archie411 

    WOW thats the best I seen here
    So cool
    Seeing coulour from black and white
    WICKED

  13. Anonymous Jennifer 

    that was cool! ahhhhh!

  14. Anonymous Calvin 

    holy crap that was weired ha spooked me out at first because i thought it was a fake but i look at it again and i figured it out

  15. Anonymous Caramary 

    Wicked :D

  16. Anonymous Hai 

    damn thats unbelieveable

  17. Anonymous loser.. 

    You actually believe that? Idiots. the picture changes, it has nothing to do with your eyes. if you don't look at the picture, it does the exact same thing...... After it turns black and white... continue to stare... it turns back to those colours!

  18. Anonymous chris 

    oh my frikken god, you idiots believe that!? its just a photo shop trick. try not looking at it for 30 seconds and then look at it again.

  19. Anonymous Adam E. 

    chris.......... what? I LAUGH AT YOU!!!

  20. Anonymous bel92 

    tht soo werid

  21. Anonymous kc 

    gif animation .

  22. Anonymous kitty 

    aawwww, I fee like i'm 6 again!

  23. Anonymous Silje 

    wow!!! that's.. em... sweet!!! i read the explaination mangoman wrote.. I belive it.. you CAN trick your eyes 2 see colors!! people that doesn't belive it probably dropped out of high school pretty early... not their fault though!!

  24. Anonymous itsme 

    some people just do not know how to read and start making fun of others. Actually their remarks are a good laugh themselves....

    If you really read the whole explanation, you will see that the illusion is that you will see is a picture that [quote] "looks like it's in full-color" The loop only consists of a strangely colored picture (negative colors) and a black and white, there is no full colored picture, but that is exactly what you get to see if you stare at the loop.

    good luck in trying to see the magic!

  25. Anonymous ecass 

    so the image only looped once between color and black and white... while i was reading the top instructions.

    and now it wont loop again.
    damnit.
    i've been staring at it for like 3 minutes waiting and it still hasnt.
    my eyes hurt.

  26. Anonymous Alexxx 

    Ok peope like chelsea and "loser" are retarded... read the DIRECTIONS! of course the pic changes but the illusion is that u see it in ful color! not that u see the MOUNTAIN! learn 2 read. i dunno how u got past kindergarden!

  27. Anonymous JOSh 

    nifty

  28. Anonymous M 2 the H O 

    all the people who say "you believe that??? retarts" are stupid. its 2 pics in a loop. 1 has negative colours, 1 is grey scaled. if you look at negative coloures then look at a white page those colours change!!!
    and do u really think that they proggrammed the pic to turn back 2 black and white as soon as you took ur eyes off the dot? dont be stupid,
    its all to do with our eyes and our brain. loser and chris, u obviously havnt a clue what ur on about.
    maybe if you watched a programme about the brain or pay attention in science class u mite learn a thing or 2!
    omg, i hate pple like that.

  29. Anonymous Julia 

    For all that insist that it is fake:

    Just because you don't believe something doesn't mean that it isn't real.

  30. Anonymous shev 

    woah!

  31. Anonymous chel-c 

    It's not fake. It does switch from the colours to black and white, that's the point, when it's black and white it looks coloured. Do you think they expect you to believe that all the sudden the picture jumps to black and white? No they don't.

  32. Anonymous mgreen3 

    one word... WOW

  33. Anonymous Chelsea 

    FAKE. Eff-ay-cake! Fake! It's not really colour, the whole time is black and white people! Your eye's just trick you. They make believe in colour.

  34. Anonymous Emily 

    >>FAKE. Eff-ay-cake! Fake! It's not really colour, the whole time is black and white >>people! Your eye's just trick you. They make believe in colour.

    Ummm... Whoever you are, "Chelsea," I hope you do know that *thats precisely the point*. It's not an "Eff-ay-cake" (facake?). It's an *optical illusion*. Oh-pee-tee-eye-see-ay-el Eye-el-el-you-ess-eye-oh-enn. *Meaning* your eyes and your brain "trick" you into seeing something that isn't there. That's the *point*!

    Gosh, why am I even explaining this...

    Anyway, gotta say the picture was pretty frakkin' sweet. Too bad it goes away when you move your eyes. I keep wanting to look around at the picture to see the details of the "color" photo. (And for about half a second I actually contemplated taking a *screenshot* of the color pic before I realized... um, duh. LOL)

    And BTW, mangoman, thanks for the wonderful explanation. It makes a lot of sense.

  35. Anonymous silly 

    ok that was weird. i changed while i was reading the instructions...

  36. Anonymous Red 

    ok...you people are confusing each other. let me try to explain, for anyone confused...

    the picture you first see is just the colours of the original mountain, but reversed, e.g. the colours turn into their opposite colours. the blue bit of the sky is orange, etc. after you stare at it for a while the image of the colours become temporarily burned into your retina. these colours will reverse again if you look at anything grey-scaled, e.g. the black and white picture of the mountain.

    if this makes no sense, open Paint and draw an orange circle. stare at it for a while and then look at the white screen next to it. does it turn blue? correct answer: yes.

    mangoman was right, but he made it sound complicated.

    p.s. if you missed the first loop and you can't get it to loop again, refresh the page, dumbass.

  37. Anonymous CrazyGal 

    SWEEEEEEET!

  38. Anonymous panchocahcondo 

    well i'll be a bare assed monkey's uncle... this scared the crap out of me

  39. Anonymous Ashlee 

    At first i stared and then i restarted and walked to the kitchen then when came bk the muoains had already appered..


    It just goes. it nots really illusionly

  40. Anonymous sum1 

    well to all of you think its fake, ur wrong, we studied this exact picture in my psychology class today, Its not a photoshop trick or anything, it happens because of cones and rods inside of our eyes, sum people that are colorblind would see this picture in different colors, their cones which are the ones that percieve color cannot read the same information as people who can read colors the way we've been taught them to us. Its complicated .. but cool. if u want to see other cool ones go here ...

    www.johnsadowski.com/big_spanish_castle.php

  41. Anonymous mixedcutie 

    Wow that is some cool shit right there!!!!

  42. Anonymous Juliemagix 

    I'm pretty sure it's fake.

    Put your mouse on the picture, close your eyes for a long time, and when you open them the picture's already black and white.

  43. Anonymous nikolle 

    That is so cool! it is supose to turn from yellow and blue negitive to the black and white. then when it turns to the black and white keep staring and the black and white turns into full color!

    This Roxs!!!!!!!! :)

  44. Anonymous Sam 

    hm...I'm going to go make one :)

  45. Anonymous Sam 

    http://www11.blibs.com/animation-factory/working/11610463312663.gif?3667491674

    you should see a beach at sunset

  46. Anonymous harajukugirl 

    woah...lots of commenbts for this 1

  47. Anonymous meeow 

    I love this one! it's so kool! =^_^= i really don't care how it works just as long as it works lol!

  48. Anonymous Chelsea 

    OMG! This is such a fake!

  49. Anonymous sigh 

    @Juliemagix: Yes. It does change. We know. There are 2 images connected in a loop. One is inverted color. One is black and white. Are you with me so far? The trick isn't that the picture suddenly looks black and white. The trick is: (pay attention) After you've been staring at the dot at the center of the color inversion for 30 seconds, if you are then shown the same picture in black and white, it will kind of look like it's in its natural colors, until you take your eyes off the dot and then you can tell its in black and white.

    It has nothing to do with "figuring out the puzzle." There is no "trick" going on. The authors of this post aren't lying to you. It's an optical illusion. It happens to everyone (most people?) just because of the way our eyes work.

  50. Anonymous Lizzy 

    Omg some people are so stupid!!! Ofcourse it is suppose to change to black and white thats the point!!! Im 14 and I get it god!!! Read the instructions properly before making stupid comments next time!!!

    I'm talking to you chelsea, loser, chris, ashlee, juliemagix you are all idiots!!! I hope you are younger then me otherwise you should be ashamed of your ignorence!!!

  51. Anonymous Anonymous 

    dammit, dont u know how to use ur BRAINS?
    I didnt read the instructions and i understand the illusion!
    i agree with lizzy, idiots...

  52. Anonymous Anonymous 

    KOOL!!

  53. Anonymous loser 

    thats soooooo
    cool
    =^.^=

  54. Anonymous sexy 

    thats goood

  55. Anonymous Anonymous 

    This is fake, I was pretty sure it was from the start but I printed the screen anyway and copy it to paintshop and I'm still waiting for it to turn colors.

  56. Anonymous pangloss 

    did the same thing and nothing happened. i also noticed that it changes color fom time to time even though you won't stare at it for 30 s. one word to put it: FAKE

  57. Anonymous Anonymous 

    I can see a face in the mountain. It is in the left under the loop. After it turns black and white you can see it.

  58. Blogger Juan 

    One way for all of those non-believers out there to see that it is ONLY 1 inverted color and 1 B/W image is to move your eyes around is circles, squares, triangles (whatever, as long as it's random) while the inverted pic is on, and you'll see that the image becomes a B/W, and is never in color, proving that it is an optical illusion, not just a loop of an invert, a color, and a B/W.

  59. Anonymous dan 

    all i have to say is that this is awesome and chelsea and all you others who say its a fake are losers who apparently dont understand the concept that just because something is interesting means its fake. you are blights on society and i voice the public opinion that if you cannot comprehend something as basic as this that you refrain from spreading your idiocy to the rest of us

  60. Anonymous Anonymous 

    fake only .gif!

  61. Anonymous dan 

    simple test: you look at the dot and do as it tells you, get someone else to look only when it turns to b/w. you will see color, the other person will see b/w

  62. Anonymous Anonymous 

    Some people are so stupid. This illusion is freakin awesome. Nothing fake about it.

  63. Anonymous Shauzia 

    F-A-K-E PEOPLES!!!

  64. Anonymous PrincessUnique 

    I agree. I mean I scrolled down the page, then when I scrolled up, it was black and white. Its asom, and all. But Is it real?

  65. Blogger Jessica 

    Some of the people who leave comments here are incredibly stupid. And when I say stupid, I mean, how the heck did they manage to turn on their computers?

  66. Anonymous Anonymous 

    How do you do it?

  67. Anonymous Ellie 

    mangoman how stupid can you get? it's faked. it changes colour every so often. its a different pictues. stop boring us with your chemical crap

  68. Anonymous Anonymous 

    the best illusion ever!!!!

  69. Anonymous Anonymous 

    This is stupid! it changed while i was readin the instructions!! this is so fake! i could do better!

  70. Anonymous FutZAAH 

    At first I was like: 'Whutafuzzzchabunuuuh?!? You put the colour photo in? Until I read the description and was 'Omguuuuuhtyabuzunz....Fuchaaa!

  71. Anonymous Alexiorsay 

    Love it!!!

  72. Anonymous E R ! N 

    completely fake.
    wow.
    the people that actually believe that this works.. RETARDS.

    i was reading the directions and all of a sudden the image changes.
    i wasnt even staring at it like the directions say.

    dont be so gullible people.
    :}

  73. Anonymous Anonymous 

    u guys r idiots the picture actually changes itz not an illusion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  74. Anonymous Anonymous 

    what a great fake :D

  75. Blogger william 

    people who think this is fake are either one of two things, not critically observant or just plain stupid. One way you can prove it's not fake is look at the picture and see how long you can make the illusion of color last. Time it. Next time around look away quickly and look back. The second time will not last as long as the first gauranteed and you want to know why? because it's not fake! So just enjoy the stinking illusion.

  76. Blogger william 

    i just realized why people think it's fake, they're like yeah the picture changed. i wasn't even looking at it and it changed. WOW! no duh! yeah it changes to a freaking black and white image but if you stare at the dot it looks like a color photo when it changes from the abstract colors. plus if i'm staring at this little box i'm typing in and it changes "out of the corner of my eye" it will still create the illusion "out of the corner of my eye." people are incredibly stupid sometimes.

  77. Anonymous i*is*awesome 

    k and um by the way ALL OF THE PEOPLE WHO ALREADY KNEW THAT THIS WAS NOT A FAKE.... U ROOOOCK!!!!

    but i rock more...
    haha lols jk...
    but not really
    =^^=
    ;P

  78. Anonymous Emma 

    some people are so dum, jus for the record, this IS real. i print screened it just as it turned black and white. as i was doing it, it still went colourful BUT when i checked it, IT WAS BLACK AND WHITE. so there! its real

  79. Anonymous Anonymous 

    it'S not fAKE guys..!!!

    we know that there are two pix ryt? the one are the negatives and the other the black and white..!!l00k at the black dot during the negative-colored pix are shown
    and when the other picture(w/c is black n white)appears,you can see that the sky turns to blue and my technique is to look rapidly at the grasses and the sky and you can see that it really changes into a colored picture.not black and white nor neagtive...just plain ccolored pictures...

    try it again..and you can really tell that it's true..!!

    ..nice illusion!!!AWES0ME..!!

    ..L0VEiit..!!!!ΓΌ

  80. Anonymous Anonymous 

    ice tried it before and didnt get it but i just did. [a few days after trying it the first time]

  81. Anonymous sez 

    I love these ones!!

  82. Anonymous ME haha! 

    i love how some people think it's all fake. i've done it myself at home. it has an easy explanation. mangoman explains it. i love these things they totally rock!

  83. Anonymous Anonymous 

    that's so cool! definately one of the better afterimage ones. when it first changed, i thought it was merely a regular color photograph that was there to trick me, like the "scariest illusion ever" actually has no illusion in it, it's just scary. then i moved my eyes... that's crazy!

  84. Anonymous Anonymous 

    I tried printing it 2 see if it was real! guess wat?! it isn't! ha!

  85. Blogger giovannimainardi 

    I JUST CANT UNDERSTAND WHY SOME PEOPLE CANT UNDERSTAND THIS!!!! OF COURSE THAT IF U PRINT IT, IT WONT WORK, ITS A .GIF IMAGE, IT CHANGES !!! THERE ARE 2 PICTURES, ONE WITH SOME INVERTED COLORS AND OTHER IN BLACK AND WHITE, IF U SEE THE INVERTED BEFORE THE BLACK AND WHITE, THE BLACK AND WHITE WILL BE IN COLORS!!!! CANT U GET IT?? U FUCKING STUPID BITCHES! YOU GUYS CANT BE SO STUPID, I CANT UNDERSTAND HOW DUMMIES U GUYS ARE!!! THINK A LITTLE, 2 IMAGES, SEE ONE FIRST AND THE OTHER WILL BE IN COLORS!!!! UNDERSTAND ???? OR NOT YET???? GO TO HELL U FUCKING STUPID GUYS, GO TO SCHOOL, LEARN SOMETHING, LEARN HOW TO READ. THE DESCRIPTION EXPLAIN WHAT WE ARE SAYING, BUT U GUYS JUST CANT UNDERSTAND, ITS IMPOSSIBLE THAT U HAVE MORE THAN 10 YEARS OLD!

  86. Anonymous Anonymous 

    This is bull. It's an animation that goes to the greyscaled mountain every 30 seconds or so...there's no illusion...

    Its a waste of badnwitdth is what it is. Just remove it.




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