By Vurdlak on December 26, 2006, with 45 Comments
Friend of mine emailed me this cool picture! You may ask what’s so cool about it, thats what logically follows. I suggest you try figuring out yourself what is the illusion here, but if you are lazy continue reading this post :) This illusion is another example of this. Believe it or not, all diamonds in this picture are of the same color! It’s true! Jump inside this post to see the proof. After you’ve finished, check another few examples here: candy stripes, which color is darker, gray squares… and then take the color blindness test! More similar illusions can be found in color adapting category.
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first i was like, i don’t get it… then i saw the grey stripes and i’m like HOLY CRAP. good illusion
That one’s awesome, a great Christmas present!!
That is pretty amazing
How is that possible??!!!
first post this is awesome almost looks like the line changes color 8P keep up the good work!
I didn’t believe this until I saw the 2nd pic.
i dont really get this other than the whole deal with the perceptoin thing. yay first post!
first post, but anyways, it looks like the picture wiggles or something
Amazing, how fallible the human mind is, not to notice these discrepancies at first!
That’s unbeleivable
This is on ethat;s hard to believe.
First First Yay Yay!!
I digs that! The diamonds only look differant colours because of the way the cubes are shaded and that is the illusion. Think about it I got that and I’m 11.
Oh… I still dont det how they are the same color. Can someone explain it to me?
If you scroll up and down,they look like dancing or something
the diamonds are the same color- that’s the effect. it’s a pretty good one, i must say. until the follow up pictures, i didn’t quite believe it.
but what i really can’t believe is how could you people could NOT get the effect? even if you can’t figure out by looking at it, which is somewhat understandable, don’t you read? it explains it all in the post. you know, that little paragraph of text above the picture? that’s there for a reason. Vurdlak wasn’t writing it for his/her health. he/she was helping you morons out.
How can u explain two things r the same color? u have u show it. Which the web person already did! Duh, didn’t u even look at both pictures before posting?
is it just me or do the stripes look like they’redifferent shades of gray in differerent places?
its the faded scales of grey in the vertical faces of the cubes that make the diamonds appear darker or lighter than they really are
Dude, it hurts my brain..
and mine too (another person)
I still didn’t believe it after seeing the gray lines, which appeared to me to change shades. So I pasted the picture into Paint, and copied/pasted small rectangles from two “different” diamonds onto a white background, any by golly they are actually the exact same shade of grey!
This one really amazes me…
Try print them on paper and bend the paper then you will see that they dont have the same colour.
A better and correct example of such an illusion can be found at http://www.moillusions.com/2006/03/colored-squares-illusion.html
What??? How can that be??? Is it the shading or something?
Anonynous poster #7, I agree with you, the stripes do seem to change colour, though I have checked through Paint, and they are the same colour, all the way through, if your look close enough.
wow that is so cool! how do they do that?
Great! Whatever the explanation is (shading, grays around…), it’s incredible!
And agreeing with Cheshire Kitty above: What’s wrong with our visual cortex algorithm to fall in this trap???!!! Do we all human beings share this oddity? Seems so. Do other animals share it too?
Thnx for this jewel.
okay.. when i saw the stripes (or linies) i was like.. oh wow ! i get it.. thats creepy.. buttt.. i kept looking.. && on some of the parts on the lines, it turns slightly darker.. the crazy background jsut draws you away from noticing that. soo.. ha.. i got you. its not the same. nice try though.
i dont get it!
if you move further away from the screen, youll see the picture like in a 3-D-ish wave
WOw, open it in paint and try the colour thing where it picks the colour you pick and pick the centre of the square…wow…
I came across these illusions after having problems editing photgraphs and trying to match colours.
The thing I found fascinating is that when you draw the grey line it itself appears not to be the same colour.
if you cross your eyes a little on the first one it turns to waves
the first piCture cOuld gO on bent Lines category.
(the Capaital letters spell a word
no-no-no this is to amazing
when you scroll up and down thepage it looks like the blocs wiggle o_O
Ok I’m not sure BUT
THE STRIPS LOOK LIKE DIFFERENT COLOURS!!! Is that not cheating?
Look! Top’s light, next parts dark, so on! or are my eyes screwed?
This is a great example of a perceptual phenomenon known as color constancy. Wikipedia has a great article on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_constancy
make you wonder if anything is what it seems to be I feel pretty sure its not why are we human all fooling ourselves?
But there’s a gradient on some squares… Nevertheless, pretty cool.
I have seen several examples of this illusion, and this is the *best*!
“whatever reality is, anyhow…”
Thanks,
TP
If you scroll up & down it will move!!!!
There is no illusion here.
The stripe in the second pic changes shades of Grey.
Jesus Christ, this proves how stupid most people are.
They are not the same colour, the lines connecting them in the second picture have gardient, they slowly turn light and darker within the tiny pixels so you dont notice where the lighter and darker diamonds are.
Copy the photo into paint.
Take the eraser and erase the lighter diamond.
It will magicaly appear darker.
This is no trick, it is 100% in fact an illusion.. and a very perfect one.
Erase the outside of the lighter diamond
Blur your eyes and they look like waves. Cool!