By Vurdlak on January 3, 2009, with 153 Comments
Hy guys! Just a quick update, I’m in a hurry for poker game back at my house, but also wanted to share this cool illusion with you, before I leave the office. But before we proceed, please reply if your Vista Gadget has been working normally today? I’m not sure if it’s only me getting some loading errors. In either case, get the new version (v7.0) just to make sure it works. In the picture below, watch how Peter from Family Guy as Incredible Hulk changes from black and white, to full-color. Here are the steps: Stare at the dot in the middle of the pic for 20 seconds or more. Continue to stare at the dot, without moving your eyes. The black and white image will seem to be in color now. Looks can be deceiving, right? More of these can be found inside the Afterimages category. Oh, I have received some complaints about “yourfilehost”, where we used to store our files, and have successfully fixed Audio illusions. If you find more outgoing links to “yourfilehost” on this site, please email me to remove them as well!
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this is awesome! it works, though you have to focus on the dot the whole time through, and when it turns to black and white, your eyes can’t stray from the dot, else the “color” goes back to black/white.
nice illusion!
?? The gif is changing colours?
YEAH!!!! FIRST COMMENT! I find this illusion stupid ’cause it will just change of color. It’s not a illusion!
wow thats wild
first comment? yea!!!
this is friggin fake anyone can see that, jesus christ stop posting this junk and get to real illusions
oh first:D
SICKKKK
This illusion is awesome- but a common problem is that i cant keep my eyes still T_T – luv family guy !!!!
I thought this was going to be lame when I read it – but the effect is really cool!
Cool………..Might be able to see it if it were not flashing back and forth between color & B&W!! Really illusion of animated GIF? I am addicted to this site. BTW my Vista gadget working fine today
Hey I don’t even have to close my eyes or stare at a white wall!!
1st 2
This has to be my favourite illusion! Awesome!
It seems to change colour, even when I don’t look at it.
Odd.
cool 1st comment! this is REALLY cool!!!!!!!
Wow, that is awesome!
vista worked fine for me, I tried the illusion and the colours were weird :s dont get it its a .gif picture so switches every 30 secs wats the illusion??
I don´t get it, i think its fake or somebody please explain to me why does this happen?.
Besides it changes even if you don´t look at the point.
First!!!!!!
Very cool illusion :D
lol that looks weird
lol thats so cool!
(first comment i think)
Nice one!
Didn’t know that pink was such a turn on for our green friend…
hey, cool. I wonder if there’s a program that can do this to any pic? I’m sure it would just flop around the colors…
great illusion… how does it happens
Woah, thats cool. Great illusion!
Awesome!
Love these color illusions!
Keep up the god work!
Bizzzzzarrrrrre!!
My Gadget is working fine.
I didn’t like the allusion. It doesn’t work. While I was reading the introduction and while I was typing it, the color switched back and forth without me paying any attention to it.
It’s just clever coding. It needs more of a time lapse to be more believable.
omg that is so crazy
Loves it! Very cognitive psychology stuff!
Hey number 3 post(who claimed to be first). You need to read directions. It ONVIOUSLY changes colors. That’s not the point. Do it again my friend.
P.S. These are my absolute favorite illusions! My favorite is the Spanish Castle.
You should’ve explained this illusion ALOT MORE CLEARLY, as there are plenty of people who just don’t get it/what its meant to be! i know you were ina hurry but :P as i read it, i could tell there were gunna be complaints/complainers.
To everyone who thinks that this is FAKE or something because its a gif that changes colour anyway… the idea is that you stare at the dot in the middle while its pink (inverse) and wait and continue staring and peter will turn into incredible peter (green) and the other colours will / should look normal too – even though its actually black and white what your looking at after the inverse image – it appears normal :)
Sorry for the double post but LOL! apparently there were alot of stupid people not realising what the illusion was on the black and white pyramid one either!:P haha – http://www.moillusions.com/2007/10/black-and-white-pyramid-in-color.html
Silly people… take more time to think about it! the gifs shows two things – an inverse colours image, and a black and white image! – if you stare at the inverse image, then afterwards you see the black and white image in colour!
- It would work if you had them as TWO SEPARATE images and stared at the inverse one for a while and then quickly looked at the black and white one in the same spot – it’s just a gif to make things alot easier for us to do :)/perform the illusion
no, idiots, you have to STARE AT THE DOT WHILE IT CHANGES from black and white to colour, then back to black and white. When it changes colour the first time, the hulk (peter griffin) is magenta. If you continue to stare at the dot when it changes back to black and white, he will appear green.
It’s very cool, you just have to do what Vurdlak said and STARE AT THE DOT!
Many of you are missing the whole effect. It isn't the pink & blue that is the illusion…it is when the hulk character turns green, the chair on the left turns brownish, boy's shirt turns bluish.
So the reason this does work. Because the pic is pink or should we say a shade of red. When it changes back to teh black and white. The Grey color takes on the compliment of Red which is Green. The human eye gives the color Grey the aspect of the color that it saw before. This does work. Look at the dot in the mid of the screen and look at it when it is the odd coloring. When it switches to black and white the Peter will look green
You idiots!
it’s supposed to change color. wow…
ok stare at the black and white. continue to stare once it changes colors. when it changes to black and white AGAIN, you will see peter green and chris his regular color.
some people are idiots
For the ones who don´t understand the illusion, please read the steps carefully,
1.- First you must stare at the image when it is in the bizarre colors.
2.- then when the image changes to the black and white,(YOU HAVE TO KEEP STARING AT IT). it seems that it has colors.
NOTE:
THE ILLUSION IS NOT THAT THE IMAGE CHANGES FROM BIZARRE COLORS TO BLACK AND WHITE!!!
ITS THAT THE B/W SEEMS TO GET COLOURED.
iF YOU STILL DONT UNDERSTAND THE ILLUSION AND KEEP SAYING ITS FAKE, YOU ARE STUPID!!
OMG that is amazing, and to those people that down know how to do this, you stare at the dot when the colour of the hulk is purple, just keep staring at it, when the picture turns black and white you will see it in full colour.
vurdluk , you should stop posting such stupid illusions. This is automatic and every few seconds it would change colours . when I first opened the post , it was already coloured . So it had nothing to do with illusions.
Anyone who is complaining that this is not an illusion – is an idiot.
You have to stare at the dot for at least 60 seconds. After the 3rd or 4th time it switches to B/W, it will actually look like Peter’s skin is green, and Chris’s shirt is blue.
It only works if you are staring directly at the dot.
To everyone that doesn’t get it: The gif is cycling through a negatively colored image and a gray scale image. You focus on the dot through the negative image (purple and blue can clearly be seen), and once it changes to gray scale you see it as a positive image. It is an illusion because you see the grays as colors that are not there.
it just another illusion with negative colours,you fools,this site is full of them….and it’s pretty easy done,doesn’t need to be fake!
It works by a very simple mechanism by which your eye retains images: similar to the way you don't notice the frames on your television change only in this example your brain is also inverting the colour. Do any of you remember back in secondary school when either in your art or your physics class you were shown a coloured square which you were to stare at for 20-30 seconds and then look at a white wall or a sheet of paper and you would be able to see a different coloured square in the centre of it? Your eye inverts the colour according to "complimentary colours” which a few of you may have heard of – its fairly simple stuff: Blue <> Orange, Green <> Red, Purple <> Yellow. So if you stare at a red square then look away you will see a green-coloured square on what you look at and so on.
This happens all the time to you – you just don’t notice t.
And finally – it is not cheating… it is changing from the inverted coloured version to the greyscale version so that YOUR EYE CAN COLOUR IT IN: it is not cheating… because cheating would involve inverting the colours… and fixing them because of you invert those colours you would get weird shades.
A final note – that’s a cool illusion ;)
Instead of explaining myself to the idiots who don’t read the description on every afterimage illusion, I’m going to point you to the comments section on this illusion: http://www.moillusions.com/2008/06/crocodile-hunter-steve-irwin-afterimage.html
Read them! This is my contribution to those comments, btw:
The image is supposed to change! It starts with a black and white image. Then you see the negative of the colour version of the black and white picture, and you are supposed to stare at it. Then, the black and white image is shown again. The illusion is that you see the black and white image in colour, because the negative has been “burnt” in your retina. When you look at the b+w image, you see the reverse of the negative!
Now we’ve got all that out the way, nice illusion! I love Family Guy and The Simpsons, but let’s not start another debate as to which is better :P
For the people who are saying it is fake you have to stare at it WHILE weird coloured and then the black and white picture will become coloured properly
This is cool, don’t know how it happens, but it really is neat.
My Microsoft Vista Optical Illusion of the Day Gadget works great!! I don’t know if it’s just your version (some how). Really like the it, I check everyday. Good Job on the site and gadget.
Those of you saying it switches when your not looking – that’s the point!
You have yo stare at it while it switches between black and white and the distorted colours
Then when it goes back to black and white you will see it in proper colours
it switches back and forth for a reason…to make the illusion work…
stare at the dot when the image is purple. stare at it… and then when the image switches back to b&w it will appear in 'normal' colour. (the purple will appear green). blink and u will ruin the illusion.
People who are saying it isn't an illusion because it's flipping from B&W to colour…the point is that if you stare at the dot on the coloured version of the pic, when it flips to B&W Peter turns green, and all the rest of the picture looks like the "normal" colours that they should be. It works because your eyes get used to the inverse colours and over-compensate when they suddenly go away.
Personally, I really like these illusions, keep up the good work!
Wow!! That’s amazing :D
I think many ppl thinks that the optical illusion is if you stare at the pic long enough the picture will change colour from “pink and blue to “”black and white” but its rong … u have to stare at the dot in the middle and wait til it changes colour … and u will see a different set of colours ! :) awesome illusion i must say ..
I think most of you didn't get it…
The colors turn from black/white to pink. If you stare at the dot, the family guy (forgot his name) gets green (–> looks like Hulk) when the colors turn to b/w again… That's it.
Uhh to all the people complaining that it’s an animated gif and not an illusion… the gif is supposed to animate.
You stare at the dot while it is the coloured version of the image (pink version of Peter Griffin) and then when the gif switches to the black and white image, it appears in colour to your eyes if you continue looking at the dot. Look away from the dot and your eyes see the image as black and white.
Look the dot attentively.
then, when the pic become Blanck/White the strong guy wwill be Green.
But, he’s not.
funny
ok.. guys you do wrong.
Stare at the dot only when the image changes color to purple blue. The keep staring at the dot and the grey image will be colored.
This illusion is so cool. I luv it
It’s already in color, isn’t it? I don’t see any black and white. Peter’s chest and feet are pink. The floor is blue, etc. Is this what everyone sees after staring?
come on guys… nothing fake about this. First you look at the dot when the weird collour pictures is on. And when it switches to the black and white image, you see normal collours ! it’s easy.
Ok, for all people who say it is a fake: When you stare at the coloured picture (the pink hulk), you will see the hulk turn green when the pictures changes to b/w.
Very cool, although I have to keep staring at the dot, otherwise the picture changes to b/w again.
I hope that next postings won’t be fakes this year …
Listen, all the people who say it's a fake and always changing. The changing from the Black&White picture to the Pink&Blue picture is happening to be able to SEE the effect. If you stare at the dot (and really keep staring at it), while the picture is Pink&Blue, the picture will eventually change back to Black&White. But if you really stared at the dot you won't see a black and white picture, but you'll see a coloured image (with Peter in green for example).
For those of you who believe it to be fake, you are incorrect and are daft to think so.
The illusion works by staring at the “color” picture of the hulk — notice how he is purple. When the image flashes to black and white, your brain sees the inverse colors of those previously displayed, so we see color instead of black and white.
For all those who said this illusion is fake, the purple and brown isn’t the “color” that their talking about. its when it goes back to black and white tha it seems like a regular family guy picture
It's a great illusion.
For those of you who think its's 'fake' it's not. The idea is that you stare at the hole when it's a flourescent pink/blue/yellow colour, and when it changes to b&w, it seems as if its in its original colours
Great illusion though ;)
Focus on the dot while the image is colourful (pink peter). Intensely. When the image goes back to B&N, your eye produces the opposite color (red<–>green, etc) and you "see" the real image (green peter, as the hulk).
OK…so poster no. 6 has posted as follows:
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this is friggin fake anyone can see that, jesus christ stop posting this junk and get to real illusions
oh first:D
a) You’re not first
b) It’s not ‘friggin fake’, for crying out loud. The illusion is that if you stare at the oddly-coloured dot for 20 seconds, when it changes to black and white it appears in full colour. Not a fake, at all
It’s not fake, if you watch it and look at the black and white image immediately after it swaps back it is not in colour (Sorry, I know that was badly phrased)
Hurray!!!!!!!!!!!!! 67th comment
WTF dude. im totally trippin' out. haha, luv it. <3 maybe one of the coolest illusions i've ever seen. :o
The point of this illusion (and it IS an illusion), is that when you focus on a black and white image, and it changes to the complete opposite colors of what it’s supposed to be, you’ll see the real colors when it switches back to black and white.
It’s like your brain fills in the black and white with the opposite colors… It’s really weird why you see the right colors.
Btw: it’s supposed to change from b/w to color, only when you focus you’ll see green/yellow and such instead of purple/blue…
To those that don’t get the illusion, go back and read the directions and follow them. By the time your are done, you should see Peter as grey, pink, then green. Other colors will change also.
As for the widget, mine works fine on the Vista desktop
Ok, so it seems like a few people aren’t understanding this illusion. Yes we all know it changes color… it is supposed to!
Stare at the dot in the center of the image DURING the colored phase. Stay focused on the dot for the 10 or 15 seconds, and when it changes the black and white image will appear properly colored.
Very cool illusion.
This illusion isn’t fake; wait for it to turn from the strange color to black and white, then stare at the dot (even after it changes to the strange color.) After the strange color goes away, you’ll see it in color, but you have to keep staring at the dot or else it goes away.
ok for all you people saying this doesn’t work. just stare at the dot in the center the whole time and the time it changes to color isnt the magic one. it’s after the picture is in the neon colors that the actual illusion takes place. If you stare at the dot the whole time and don’t stray then after the neon pic, the b+w will seem like color. If you stray then it will change back to black and white.
Hee, I like this kinda illusions, and I actually now how it works. When you don’t move your eyes while staring at colors, your eyes become ‘tired’ of that color at a certain spot in your eyes, on the retina. Eg, when you stare at the colour red, the detectors in your eyes of the colour red become tired. Now you can’t really see red on that spot in your eyes. The opposite colour of red is green, so when you then look at white (which has all colours in it) you’ll see green. In the illusion you see all the opposite colours of the right ones, and when you stare at them without moving your eyes, you’ll see all the right colours after that in the black and wite version.
Hope you get it…
incredibleeeeeee
incredibleeeee
wow about 2/3 of the posts are either
1) this is stupid it is changing colors!!
or 2) you people are stupid (and they explain it)
any way, Tsaukpaetra, if you go to paint you can highlight a pic and invert the colors, then you can go to attributes under the invert, and go black and white to make the second required part to make this illusion!
and over all nice illusion
SOOOOOOO COOL PUT MORE LIKE THOSE IM FROM MEXICO BUT IVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THAT ILL PASS THE WORD AND PICTURE
Cool ganglion cell rebound effect lol
hahah great illusion i completely get it after reading the many posts explaining.
does anyone find it strange that the first poster didn’t say “first! yay!” but then ppl up to like post #20 thought they were first? thought id just throw that out there.