By Vurdlak on March 20, 2009, with 131 Comments
Optical illusion tests were always my favorite! If you remember, few years ago, when this site only started, we posted our original blindness test. Most of you had no problem seeing the “hidden” numbers, but there were few among us that were color blind, and could in no way see the blended symbols. Color blindness is common disability, and shouldn’t be laughed at. For today i bring you another one of those, created by Ariel. Using this picture below, you can test members of your family or friends and coworkers to see if they are colorblind. Ask them to read the text, and if they don’t see it immediately, they are unfortunatelly colorblind. Believe it or nor, some people really don’t see a difference. I’m not exactly sure will this work if you print it out, but you can try this as well.
(15 votes)
I see the differently colored bacteria. (first).
COOL
thts rly cool i saw it easily… first comment!
ariel collor activ
some see no diference
Nice blue bubbles…
Ok, seriously.
Ican see 15% very nice.
Probably there are no netherlands people colour blinded…
Ummm….. pretty lame dude. It’s not even an optical illusion. This is just a test to see if you are color blind. I’m not seeing the point of posting this. It’s the same test every kid takes in grade school.
easy!!!!!! ariel color activ some see no differnce!
I’m very slightly colourblind, I have trouble determining very light colours from one another and I often see things in different colours to other people. I can tell there are words in this though, but I can’t quite read them.
cool…=)…i can read it!!!
I am colour blind so i couldn’t see what the thing said but i found a glitch in it for those of you who are colour blind. Just look at your screen from an angle and eventualy you will be able to see it, it won’t be easy to see but you will be able to see it.
ariel
color
activ
come
see no
difference
ariel color active some see no difference—–am i right?
Iy says:
Ariel Color Activ
some see no diffrence.
If you stand back further from your monitor, you can read it clear as day. At least I could.
only had a little probblem with the last word had to squint to get it …. nice keep up the good work
I see letters… What are they saying?
Just curious.
I’m color blind!!!! What does it say?
definitly mega
i cant see the bottom word.
Yea I can see it clearly :D
horray, i´m not Blind ;)
I see :
ARIEL
COLOR
ACTIV
SOME
SEE NO
DIFERENCE
ARIEL
COLON
ACTIV
SOME
SEE NO
DIFFERENCE
Neat. But who is Ariel?
I love your site. Thank you for doing all the wonderful things you do!
I see: Ariel color activ some see no difference
Nice image, but isnt this just a commercia? :p
WHOOT not color blind
well… i do see a difference. however, it is so collerfull i cannot read it to good.
i am already tested for coller-blindnes. however, i got an disability my brains can’t filter any impulses. so i am getting a kind of overload when looking at this picture.
feels weird, overloaded brains….
i do not see a thing, other then a bunch of colored dots. but i knew i was colorblind.
ARIEL
COLOR
ACTIV
SOME
SEE NO
DIFFERENCE
Cool, but I like the T-Shirt hell one better.
I’m color blind and I laugh about it all the time!
Weird. I’m supposed to be red/green colour blind, and I can see them fine, rofl.
I used to think that if you COULD see the numbers, etc. that YOU were the one who was color blind. I know I’m not color blind and all I have ever seen are dots all over the place. It wasn’t until I went into the Air Force that found out that if you couldn’t see the numbers you were color blind. I wonder what the World really looks like? It still looks pretty good to me. BTY, I scored 4 out of 100. Not good.
Nah, I just see a bunch of dots.
But then I already knew I was color blind. ;-)
Not really an illusion though?
I’ve seen ones where the color blind person sees something different to the normal color vision person. They’re pretty cool.
I can read it all. Thank God I am not color blind!
Easy squezy
1st comment???? :)
These are always cool and i am luckily not color blind.
i am pretty sure it says:
Ariel
Color
Activ
Some
See no
difference
am i right???
:)
ariel color actin some see no JHGVJBGHJG*
*dont know the last word
I couldn’t see this immediately, and I know I am colorblind. No Joke.
I´m the 1st of this day
I really like so much this blog
Thanks fr this moment in each day.
greattings from México.
Jonathan Chávez
I can read some of it but it makes no sense.
WHOA! I see
ARIEL
COLOR
ACTIV
SOME
SEE NO
DIFERENCE
That is so cool.
I love this site but you got to dig a little deeper than this.
I am not colour blind, but seeing disabled in another way. So it was hard work for me to read the letters, but I managed! I am proud of me now! ;)
Thanks for posting this, even though it’s not really an optical illusion, I think…
Oh, and is this supposed to be an advertisement for the washing agent “Ariel, color active”? Did they really use this as ad?
it works, i’m colorblind and i didnt saw a thing, lol
Color blindness is much more common in males than females. This is because the gene for the color sensing “cone” cells is on the x chromosome. A faulty gene on the x chromosome can be overridden by a good gene on the second x chromosome in a female. But men only have a single x chromosome and there is no corresponding gene on the y chromosome. So a single bad gene is automatically expressed in the male, but the female must have 2 bad genes to be color blind.
Incidentally, many mammals have no color vision, or a single type of cone – making their vision monochromatic. Most other mammals have only 2 types of cones, making them red-green color blind. Humans and some other closely related primates have three types of cones and “trichromatic” color vision (red, green, blue). The peak response of human color receptors varies, even amongst individuals with ‘normal’ color vision. Some birds have 4 types of cones, and thus see an even greater spectrum of colors than any of us. And some animals can see into the infrared or ultraviolet spectra.
More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_vision
ariel
color
act iv
some
see no
difference
Absolutely can’t see it… (damned middle cones)
i had problems seeing the last word but i got it with a couple minutesof staring at it and squinting… and im not color blind just half way blind period…. all though funny thing is is i can read it better without my glasses on… thats wierd lol
ariel color activ some see no differnce
:D
that was easy c(:
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i can see lots of variety in colour and can see the dark areas that make up the words.
but i can’t read those words at all.
ive always known i was slightly colour blind
anyone wanna put down what it says to see if i can read it then???
It would be even better if they could spell COLOUR properly. I am sure the English have been speaking English longer than Americans.
Hello, I’m colorblind and I can’t read anything!! It’s unfair…
Hé, pretty cool. I’m color blind myself for these colors, I’m from the Netherlands by the way, but if I put this picture in negative(yellow becomes purple, and orange becomes bleu) than I can read what it says!
@ Eilor_A_Marigo
that’s Dutch people (not netherlands people)
And there are some dutch, colorblinded people
um what does it say i cant make out the letters
Color blind is a term for those who see color differently from most of us. To tell if one’s color vision is abnormal, you must use a strict method to diagnosize this. The above picture exhibits midium wavelength characters so that it is intended to tell whether one has difficulty distingushing green vs. red, for which the brightness of green and red patches should be equal – equiluminant color. To have equiluminant colors, your monitor Gamma setting must be calibrated at least so that green and red dots are different only in chromaticity. Considering that most computer monitors are not calibrated this way, and individual sensitivities to equiluminance are different, “labeling” yourself as a color blind on the basis of inaccurate monitor color Gamma is not right.
I see what it says, just what it says doesn’t make much sense. anyway, this is cool!
it says arial color activ some see no difference
this looks so awesome!
cool saw it from the beggining xD
I can see the different colors and can make out some words. I’m pretty sure it say “Ariel Color Test Some See No Difference”, but I’m not sure.
I can’t see anything at all, I am red/green colorblind.
im ariel and im not color blind but i think they think i should be soon cause they test me alot… btw not cool
I’m color blind, and I can still read it!
Is See The Words:
Ariel
Color
Activ
Some
See No
Diffrence
Quick Fact,
Only boys can be colour blind the red-green one, for some reason of which i cant remember its impossible for girls to be colour blind with that.
At first I saw the green dots but I couldn’t read them and I thought there was something wrong and I could barely make out the words. But then I stepped back a bit and it was easy peasy lemon squeesy! So those people who think they’re colorblind but aren’t sure you could try taking a step back.
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from wiki:About 5–8 percent of males, but less than 1 percent of females, are color blind in some way or another
About 5–8 percent of males, but less than 1 percent of females, are color blind in some way or another
Actually, I just took this into Photoshop and used the sponge tool on it.
Granted, at first glance, in black and white, there is virtually no way to see the letters.
Close attention, though, does show that the letters that were once green do carry a distinctive pattern to them and a bit of blackness such that the letters are slightly distinctive against the grayed-out warm colors.
unfortunately, i don’t see a bloody thing.
however, i already knew i had a red/green deficiency and was mostly colorblind.
wow i couldn’t read it…at all, kinda pisses me off just a little
MY colour vision deficiency is called Dichromatic Protanopia.
This means of the three photo-sensitive cells, colour decriptive triggers on a retina (essentially red, blue and green), I am wholly missing the red channel.
As a result in this picture I see ABSOLUTELY NOTHING but random dots.
In actually welcome Moillusions raising awareness of colourblindness, I appreciate it’s not an optical illusion per se, but it reminds us that everyone occupies a different perceptual space. Some more so than others.
As to how we ‘see’ at all – now that’s a real illusion worth looking into!
I see dead people.
did you know that most colourblind people are men, there’re almost no women who are colourblind. This is because the gen for seeing colour is on the X-chromosome, and men have only one, so when one doesn’t work, they have no back-up an women do.
btw. ccol site
If you’re colour blind, do you just see red or something? I couldn’t see it at first but I stepped further away from my laptop and it was really clear (except I couldn’t read “difference”!) great thing mate! :)
If you take it through photoshop and change the hue you will be able to see it clearly. I’m red/green colorblind myself :)
It says: ARIEL COLOR ACTIV SOME SEE NO DIFFERENCE
It says:
This
Illusion
Is
Dumb
Right?