Comments on: Real Life Checkers Optical Illusion

By: joseamd

joseamd — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:46:50 +0000

By: Jeremiah K Garrett

Jeremiah K Garrett — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 06:43:13 +0000

I opened it in Photoshop, cut and pasted the squares. Even immediately side-by-side they do not look anywhere near similar.

If you take color selector, they are both similar colors, but not the same. If you are using web based colors only, they will show up to be the exact same. Whoever created this was using an outdated color wheel it seems.

However, although it can be “disproven” that they are not the same, the illusion still is ingenious. Most likely back in 2008 when this was written, Photoshop wouldn’t have been able to tell the difference.

By: David

David — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:03:00 +0000

Maybe the illusion is wrong. But the one and only sure thing is the illusionist didn´t know how to play chess

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:51:00 +0000

Pretty darn cool. I did have to cut/paste the squares side by side before I could believe it. BELIEVE IT!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:39:00 +0000

I think the best thing about this illusion is that it is so good that even when explained, several people fail to see what is happening. btw, photoshop isn’t to see the illusion, it’s to see the truth, that square A and B are the same shade.

By: Dandelion

Dandelion — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:21:00 +0000

I found another way to proof that this illusion is correct.
Take a piece of paper. (not to thin) Place it in front of the picture on your screan and draw a circle around the A and the B.
Take small scissors and cut two holes on those places.
Place the piece of paper in front of the picture on your screan again, and you will see the background colour of the A and the B are exactly alike.

By: uvalntine

uvalntine — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:25:00 +0000

I love this illusion. What a classic

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:44:00 +0000

Tu pinche pagina apesta…

By: Reade

Reade — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:09:00 +0000

Anonymous, the whole point of the illusion is that even though ‘A’ is a black square and ‘B’ is a white square, they are still the same colour. Cut and paste in paint.

By: -IAn

-IAn — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:42:00 +0000

But square and and square be are inverse. How can they be the same shade?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:39:00 +0000

‘A’ and ‘B’ are not the same: if you do a simple walk-through from square to square, ‘same’, ‘different’, ‘same’, ‘different’, you’ll see that you land on ‘different’ when you get to ‘B’…

Sorry, but ‘B’ should have been placed on any one of its adjacent squares…

By: Répondez

Répondez — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:23:00 +0000

OK, the board is the correct way round but the queens are definitely wrong for chess but more importantly there is no illusion. An illusion needs to be an illusion when viewed naturally not when an artifical filter of some software or whatever is used to confuse the issue. I’ve not tried it in Photoshop or any other software for that is artificial. If it needs software to show the illusion who is to say that the software is not the illusion and the diagram is correct?!!

By: Dr. Evil

Dr. Evil — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:45:00 +0000

Soooooooo.. i might be hopelessly wrong, but it the square with the B is the same shade as the A square, then the squares adjacent to the B should be of a darker shade than all of the other shades… but since those squares, particularly the 4 dark adjacent squares appear to be of same shade to square A, then this should in theory be a multi-illusioned illusion. same mechanism, but still. baffling stuff.

again, i might be wrong… or psychotic. so shoot me.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:59:00 +0000

…just get the queens on the right color!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:29:00 +0000

I’ve cut it up and put it back together here:

http://www.redcatmedia.co.uk/chess

The illusion is correct!