By Vurdlak on October 29, 2007, with 143 Comments
Stare at this animation for 40 seconds, and concentrate on the black spot. After some time, the image will switch automatically (since it’s 2 frame animation), and show you black and white photo of a Pyramid in Egypt. Because of the special effect, originally invented by John Shadowsky, you will see a full color photo of the Pyramid instead black and white one that shows up. Don’t believe me? See for your self! These kind of illusions became really popular in last few months. You can even find few of them in this site’s Archives. Check Rainbow Illusion, and Black and White Spanish Castle Illusion. Here’s what Felice Lungo, creator of this submission wrote in his email: “I made a “Black&White in Color Image” and I would be really glad if you can add it on your website! I don’t know if it’s possible!, but I hope! Hope you like it!”
(55 votes)
this is my favorite illusion on the site
and i can’t believe how stupid you guys are I’m 10 i figured it out or i didn’t need to i can read!?!?
thats amazing!!!!
holy crap that is frickin awesome!
Whoever said it was a fake obviously aren’t avid readers! It is supposed to change, but it changes to black and white. The thing is that if you stare at the dot, when it changes, it’s in colour. When you look somewhere else, the picture’s in black and white. Really cool!
excuse me, anonymous #3, but the animation is supposed to change. maybe you should try reading the description next time!
People saying it's fake – Do you realize it's supposed to change to the black and white photo, but your brain tells you it's in color? >.>
it has to do about after images, and the retina. but if u shift ur veiw oh so slightly, it goes back to black amd white.
this is an amazing illusion and very rare! is it just me or does any1 else find it funny that so many people are so slow and dont read instructions properly? it is meant to change without you telling it to try doing what the instructions tell you to do and you will c. stop tryin to b a smartass and READ!!!
to those of you that are too lame to understand.Of course the pic changes from a reverse black and white to just black and white.However the black and white image appears in color until you move your eyes off of the center.
guys, calm down. Just watch the black dot until the photo switches, and it will look like it’s in colour, when it’s not. It is an illusion, so just be patient and watch before you jump to conclusions and accuse people of cheating.
this is so dumb you guys need to get a life and get off this website im only here cause i hit this link that some one sent me you guys are BIG FAT LOSERS
lol dude i was one of the first few to post and claim it wasn’t a fake, i don’t remember how long ago it was but i subscribed to these comments and i laugh every once in a while to see the stupid idiots who bother to post there comments without reading the instructions or any of the comments telling them to read it or that spell the directions out themselves. heh i like people that make me feel like a genius!
Does anyone else think it's hilarious how so many dumb people didn't read the instructions and then called the illusion a fake?
It changes from the b&w photo to the colour block every few seconds but IF you had actually bothered to stare at the dot you would see the illusion is that the b&w photo appears to become a coloured photo.
you are retards! its not point to change picture, its point to black and white picture become in color.. you stupid assholes..
Its supposed to change. If you stare at it, instead of the next photot which is really black and white, its in color. Duh!!eignab
Cool. Another “burn” “negative” kind of thing. I got to try to do one of these myself!
Guys, it’s not fake. The image switches, yes, but it switches to a black and white image, not a colour one. If you started at the other one long enough it will appear in colour.
Nice illusion.
Anonymous says:
“Guys, it’s not fake. The image switches, yes, but it switches to a black and white image, not a colour one. If you started at the other one long enough it will appear in colour.”
Nice illusion.
Me: It really isn’t fake
i IS fake, i was reading the instructions and it changed, i tried saving this image and it was a gif…ry it for yourselves.you stupid peole…dont you know when you are being tricked!
i can even seeit changing out of the corner of my eyes hile typing this!!!!
I swear there is quite a few illiterate people roaming this website. First off, if you are going to make a statement concluding that something is false, maybe you should actually type your words to where everyone can understand what you are saying. Second, Please read a book or maybe take an initiative to further your education, since it is most certainly on of the few thing no one can take from you!
To author of comment #99:
Are… you… stupid???
It’s supposed to change! That’s the whole point! When you stare at the dot, your eyes will register the color of that image. When it switches, your eyes will still have the previous color. Instead of being a black and white picture, it will be a fully colored image of the pyramids.
Think before you post!
P.S. 100th comment :D
dudes come on, the illusion is the fact that the colors of the negative screen overrule the black and white, a trick of the mind nothing more, but absolutly not fake! Just proof of our inability to record enviroments as single bound reality’s.
i think this is fake…if you make print screen of the image and stare in the paint program we can´t see the change
okay whoever said its fake is an idiot, the point is to trick your eyes into seeing a color photo when the black and white photo appears. its a 2 frame animation, a odd colored photo appears stare at it until the black and white photo appears. the point is to get the black and white photo to look like its in full color! (not and odd color like the first frame but a natural color, like the original photo would have been or real life)
Duh?? Isn’t an illusion by definintion a “trick of the mind”
This is so AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. All it dose is switch around the colors and there you have it.
>:( >:( WHY DOESNT ANYONE UNDERSTAND?!
READ THE OPTIONS AT THE TOP AND STARE AT THE DOT THEN YOU WILL SEE WHAT HAPPENS!
lol I too find it funny, I mean I didn’t read the instructions.. but, com’on isn’t it obvious? You’re on an optical illusion site, if there’s a dot you stare at it. =P
Also the dot simply gives you a focal point that is also centered well to see everything in color then.. But you can do it by staring at any one point.. I also did it once with my finger in front and then kept staring at the same spot and removed my finger, thus leaving the area my finger covered now black and white, while the rest I could still see in color.. I had my finger nail over the black dot itself, and stared at my fingernail, and then continued at that spot when I removed my finger after the image changed over q=
the illusion isnt that it jumps
the illusion happens because the picture is actually in black and white but when u stare at the black dot, the pic seems to be in color DAH
This one is one of my favourites! Thanks :)
You’re an idiot if you say it’s fake or doesn’t work. When you stare at a color for a certain amount of time, and then it changes to nuetrals (gray), the complementary color will be visible; hence, the sky changes from orange to “blue” and the pyramid from light blue to a “light yellow-orange”. It’s all optics and perception, rods and cones, and if you say “it’ll change automatically” you simply don’t get it and are probably a lazy, know-it-all, retard monkey.
wow, it really works. stare at the black dot when it changes.
that is so cool
awesome lol
its cheeting
Same thing happens whether you stare at the black dot or not. Come on! GOOD BYE.
It just changes, nothing happens..
You dont need to stare its just doing it by itself
Good Lord! Can some people not comprehend that the illusion isn’t the changing of the picture!
If you took both images (the “coloured” pyramid and the black/white one) and stared at a spot on the coloured one (doesn’t matter where really) and then look at the same point on the other one, the pyramids seem coloured correctly!
hi what up with the pyramid that live.
omg thats well good iv never seen them that gd B4
Ok if u stare at the dot 4 40 secs and the black/white thing comes up and it looks colorful to u, get ur eyes checked. C YA!!!!
haha, fake! it changes colour after 40 seconds. just visit another website for 40 seconds, and voila, colour change.
sorry to say this but this isn’t the real its just fake we can’t know the pyramids and old Egyptian secrets in bulid so this 100% fake
it is still a secret how the pyramids were built as the construction appears to be impossible.i think that the king had ordered the slaves to do it or die.
Wonderfullllllllllllllllll……amazing …. i love that bitch!!!!
This is a 2 frame animation or in other words 2 different pictures. The illusion is that if you look at the black dot the black and white image after looks coloured. It works
this is so not an illusion. it automatically turns into black and white picture, even without staring at the dot…LAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111
The first couple of people pretending to be terminally dim were quite funny but the joke’s worn a bit thin. “Nicole” didn’t even go to the trouble to appear illiterate! Full marks for “Stephanie” though – totally incomprehensible :-)
ds is illusion n nothn else……..
:O
to be honest dont be stupid i coverd the dot and it still changed so obviously its a trick :L
I KEEP GETTING THIS ILLUSION ON RANDOM ILLUSION!!!!! UGG!!!!!!! very cool though
also try to hang on to the colored picture as long as you can, I can almost make it to the end (hint: the sky is easy to keep in color)
although is not real is still amazing
you make me wanna say oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh my gosh!
Omg, I actually can’t believe my eyes, not when I look at the optical illusion, which is awesome, by the way, by when I read those idiotic comments that the illusion is fake or it just changes or nothing happens,… What a bunch of retards, pardon my sincerity.
katie yes it’s not true
man for me i dont get this sheet. wat are we looking at coz am seeing nothing.
excuse me what are we looking at is this hell or something else pliz save your shit
its change , just learen to focus
Cool it works for every one
This is a good one.
Wonderful! This is really wunderbar! THIS IS GREAT!!!!!!!!!!