Consider this an advanced version of original Checkers Illusion. To be honest, I didn’t have time to check this in photoshop, but supposedly both sides of this 3D object are exactly same color. Hard to believe isn’t it? Well, after seeing and covering more than 1000 illusions, I finally understood that everything is possible. If you have time, test this in photoshop, and write your experience. I don’t know how our eyes and brain tricks us, but obviously they do. Something to do with shadows I think…
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AWESOME First Post!! Yeah!!
Just kidding. Hey, dennis, get offa my cloud!
The colors are slightly different but it’s cool anyway.
I also noticed that they aren’t the same color I didn’t have to open Photoshop, though. There’s a Firefox Add-on called Colorzilla. It puts a little eyedropper in the lower left and you can click on it and hover over a color and it will give you the color info. Just thought I’d share.
Middle post!
;-)
Well, I photoshpically confirm that lower one is darker! I’m going right now to the shop and buy a new pair of eyes because my ones fail more than a “escopeta de feria”, as we say in Spain.
Great illusions!
The truth is if you cover all the shadow effects–they are definitely the same color.
Its a Fake bottom one is darker maybe the illusion is the fact that the one that appears to be lighter is actually darker
They are definetly two different shades, not an illusion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think that the illusion is: The botton one is darkness that the top one.
If you see both of them you think that the top is darkness and it isn’t.
Following is a link to an updated version. I just changed the color of one of the blocks to match the other.
http://img519.imageshack.us/my.php?image=advanced2bcheckersltmj3.jpg
(I hope I don’t infringe on anyone’s copywrite)
For those using FireFox, check out the ColorZilla addon. It showed me the colors without having to use a third party program.
the left hand side of the background is the same colour as the right hand side.. does that help ?
Actually, since the bottom panel first appears as LIGHTER, when direct blend is compared and bottom is shown to be DARKER, that is a powerful illusion.
Its an OPTICAL illusion. One for your eyes. Not for photoshop
The top one looks darker than the bottom one, when in fact, the top one is lighter than the bottom one.
This means it IS an illusion.
It WOULDN’T be an illusion (or it would be a fake) if the bottom one was actually lighter. But it isn’t, it’s darker, which means our eyes are decieving us.
Who the heck are you people foolin! I’ve seen a lot of these but I never did see them match color. Or maybe i’m just color blind.
Even if the colors are not the same, this makes the illusion more STRONG, since it is the other way round.
For me, this illusion is even stronger than other illusions of the same type.
Please, next time if you post here, use your brain and not only Photoshop. Photoshop is c00l, as long as you know how to use tools like this (and what actually these numbers mean).
Tested and even without looking at the numbers I could tell the top one was lighter…
hi this is andreas,
hey Oran (#19), i’ve done it
http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/9074/advancedcheckers2nb4.png
^^ i’ve changed the image and adjust the colors with a little shade of gray.
and Ua(#30), my version is a png ;)
now you can appreciate my photoshop skills, and please, excuse my english! germans can’t use a dictionary *lol*
i tested it and the bottom one is a little darker
Hey where’s my comment..? Testing, testing, 1, 2…
People! Just click on the image and cover the middle section with your finger! thats the illusion. Vlurdak shouldnt have asked you to check in photoshop – This illusion is Phenom
This version it’s not a fake but it seem however different shades of gray.
Right Image
The principle is correct and interesting… it has only been realized poorly.
Because of the commotion over whether this was an illusion–the middle of the checkers weren’t exactly the same color, I decided to modify the image. I color-corrected the whole image so that the checkers are truly gray and the same shade on both sides.
Click HERE to see the color-corrected image.
I just tested it in Paint, and as other people said, the top one is actually lighter.
Cool!
so nice to see how people spend so much time on something so trivial! get a life
It isn’t trivial. It is a very interesting problem and there has been a lot of research done into why this effect occurs (it’s called color constancy). It’s actually done in the eye, in the retina specifically. It’s the result of of a network of neurons that act basically like a lossy data compression system that throws out regions of constant color and the average color of the scene and only passes on information about color changes (the same applies to brightness, as in this example). The border in the middle is as a very strong color transition, causing the color above and below to be perceived incorrectly when the brain fills in the solid colors later on.
Dennis is true, they are not same color. The upper one is lighter :D
For some reason i just tilted my head to the right and it just seemed they were the same colors
yeah the finger thing works..
by the way Dennis … first post..
Do I win a price???
The Colors are NOT the same. See for your self, paste it into paint, use the color picker on the lighter looking side of the cube, then use the brush and paint on the darker looking side and see what happens. >:(
Actually… They are the same color. Its simple put your finger over the middle and you’ll see they are the same color… Duh.. Because if it wasn’t an illusion why put it on this site??????
I checked it. The bottom one is ever so slightly darker then the top one. ;P
Leguan is right the top one is lighter checked with photoshop!
lol actually they arent the same color
they colors are really near one and another
in RGB colors
the top one is:
R:108, G:114, B:112
and the bottom one:
R:98, G:104, B:102
XD~
Not the same colour, copy the image into photoshop or paint and do a bit of editing and youll find thier not the same colour.
Awesome, but too bad they’re not the same colour.
put your finger or a pen or something in the middle where the two colours “seem” to clash. you will notice that they now appear to be the same colour