By Vurdlak on July 19, 2007, with 93 Comments
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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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
if you cover everything but the middle of the squares, they are the same (not Photoshop same, but human eye same ) They appear different because the top one has shadows on it’s side, and the bottom has highlights, that are almost white thus influencing your overall perspective on the shade .
Oh, and for the ones that say they are not the same shade, it may be because the overall shade (take just the middle of the square) is not composed of just one shade repeted, but by pixels, that have different shades that make up the larger shade, sooo, it may depend where you clicked on the image, even if you think you clicked on the right area, zoom in and see if i’m right that the grey area is actually made up of lighter and darker pixels .
Gabby says they’re the same colour, but Maddi thinks they’re moving. Also, the duck is missing…
They are ALMOST the same color. The numbers for the red and green parts are different by just a bit.
try coverying the background with L formed by your finger n he thumb n then cover the middle of the object (where shadow is) with another finger and u see its the same color…coool
They are really the same. Colorado ive seen this optical illusion on a game called brain games ever headed of it