Mike just sent us this optical illusion. The question is – Are the purple lines straight or bent? I know the answer, from my experience messing with this kind of illusions every day. But it’s up to you to solve this one.
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STRAIGHT!! DuH! everyone knows these ones…
No, they’re bent! I bent them myself before I snapped this picture. Trust me!
the lines are straight
straight
They look bent but they are straight!!!
They are sraight, just like me.
They are straight. I saved the picture and on paint shop pro I put a straight black line in the middle of the purple ones, and it fit perfectly. Nice try though. :)
they look straight
Well if youll look at the black spot in the middle for a short time , and then stair at a white piece of space , youll see perfectly that its straight and blue with black lines .
they are straight
I AGGREE with uh… MMM. They are straight. They look bent because…. I have 2 theories.
1. The affect of the black circle in the middle and lines
2. The lines are 3D, Giving off the ‘bulging’ affect.
i agree 100% with BurninRubber and MMM Straight and those stupid lines cause a “bulge”
This is just like the space theory where a massive object distorts time! You can see a star behind the star/planet/black hole because the massive object bends your line of sight around the object! just like the black spot makes the lines do!
They are straight. The circle in the middle is also in the center of a thin straight black line which causes a bulging appearence on the larger purple lines. The background is yellow, which on the color scale is the opposite of purple, causing distortion in the smaller color. If you also look closely, the purple line has small distorted dots. The purple lines are STRAIGHT!!!!
weird comments, but the lines are definatly strait. if you hold a piece of paper up to the purple lines you will see that they are perfectly strait.
Very clever…. but they’re straight…..
there straight, put a piece of paper underneath the line n you’ll se its perfectly straight
MIR4CL3 its called the space button
seriously its annoying when ppl do that
its the long one on the bottom just in case you didn’t know and yes they are straight
straight!!! duh
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The Lines are straight.
and MMM has to much time on his hands.
straight….i think…are they not??? oh, i dont know…
=]
5mm out off square butt straight
Well, its a gud one, & I know the reverse sort of effect, which makes u think the lines have bulged in together, I’ll post it.
Stare at the black dot for about 5 seconds [counting like this: 1001 1002 1003 etc.] and then the purple lines start looking straight but don’t take your eyes off the black dots. My servants told me this. [I’m a princess living in a palace in India.]
the lines are straight. to see it, look at them from either side of the screen. As if you were looking along a wall. the illusion is revealed. wasn’t this one in my elemenary school library?!? :)
my eyes hurt!!
course there straight other wise it wouldn’t be an illusion if they were bent
The line is straight.
There is a reason why:
The pixels in the picture are very big as you can see on the diagonal lines. The Purple lines don’t have any pixels out of place, so theyre straight.
It looks bent sometimes to me, then straight.
straight
depends on where your looking
straight but they still look cool
plus u can tell by closing ur eyes about 50%
ive seen this like three times and i kno its straight
It is definitely mind-boggling, but they are strait.
I can’t see the lines bent in this one but I have been able to in different illusions.Does anyone know why?
They look bent but they are straight!!!