Before you start reading this, count the circles in the image below. How many are there (if there are any)? Also known as Coffer Illusion, this optical illusion was created by Anthony Norcia and qualified for top 10 category in “Best Visual Illusion Of The Year Contest”. Anthony describes this visual phenomenon like this:
16 Circles
First time viewers of this display invariably do not see the 16 circles segmented from the background. Rather, they see a series of rectangles that they frequently describe as “door panels”. The illusion pits segmentation cues against what appears to be a very strong prior to interpret the image as a series of 3-D structures “coffers” with closed boundaries. (A coffer is a decorative sunken panel.) It appears that the prior involves both closure and shape-from shading assumptions.
i can see 16 circles
Wow! Cool! I didn’t notice the circles at first glance.
I FOUND 25 CIRCLES!
ummmmm.lessa, there are only supposed to be 16…….i think…………huh…
I can’t see any.
obviuosly 16
lessa we also found 25 cool!!!!!!!!!
Ah..I also found 25…
the extra 9 you guys are talking about aren’t circles, but fragments of a circle.
Im seriosly not trying to brag, but I saw them at first sight, swear on the bible
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whoever did not see it here is a tip!
look in the center of the white cross dummy dumbo people!
Thanks rudolph, I couldn’t see it at first. I can now though, even though the cross tip made it harder to spot.
25 circles? someone has been drinking…
there counting the circles that are between the circles that you see the space in between
if you look at it like it is a 3-D picture you can see 20 circles. it made it easier to spot them for me.
atfirst i only saw 16 circles, but i think i found 31
yeah wolfskin is right. there are 16. duah. you guys need to learn hhow to multiply.
16
i only see straight lines, we did this type of stuff for art class
28 :)
yeap, 25 circles
i found 30 am i wierd
there are only 16 and i saw them at first sight too soooooooooo?
yup 25 there inbetween four of them but there pretty hard to see
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O-O star is where the other 9 are
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i found 16 circles – soooooooooo coool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it depends on how you look at it
i6 circles… actually, in reality, there are 0 circles. It’s all an illusion!
At first i could only see the four circles on the right but now i see all of them
wow thats cool it took me a minute to see them but then they popped right out and they keep going in and out now but now i know how to find them
25
THERE AREN’T ANY CIRCLES. YOUR BRAIN IS JUST TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF WHAT IT SEES.
16 circles any more your going to go crazy for finding more lol guys.
I see 25
There are definately 25!
actually thre arent any circles at all because if yo look closly there not circles because circles no have strait edges and these “circles”do! so ya your all wrong!
i found 16, i didnt see them at first, then i moved back a little and they jumped out at me..
found 16 all who found 25 are the most retarded people on this planet!
There are twenty-five once you’ve found sixteen look in the middle of two circles to see the others good luck: )
I found 25. Did I do something wrong???
This illusion worked in reverse on me.
At first i only saw the circles and thought “jeez this is lame” until i focused on a different part and began seeing the rectangles.
wow, yes there r only 16 circles and couldnt find out wat they ment by 25 but after i read Al B’s comment i looked again and i finally found them and if you cross your eyes there r no circles
i see 25!!!
I saw the circles before I saw the squares. Maybe it should be count the squares instead…
There tis sixteen circles.
By da way they were hard to spot
there r 16 circles for the idiots that didn’t find 16. =^^=
I’ve found 32! (But I did cross my eyes)
there are 16 with another 9 in between 4 circles.
25…thats all there is.
cool…i see 16!!!
I didn’t see that at first but now I do, it is sooooo cool. I don’t see how anybody could see 25
16
if u say 25 i think that u r rite but those who say 16 thins is how we got 25… u hav just counted the small circles but if u imagine this as the little circles u will c wat i meen
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r they the circles that u c if so look more carefully… can u put the circles in2 squares like this
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if so then look in the middle of a square u will c a bigger circle
am i rite?
I See 25
i ddint get it at first bubt you look at the x and thres lke 15 or 16 but im pretty sure 15
Yes there are 25 that I can see. There are straight lines in a circle, you can use a protractor, measure each 10*(degrees) around the circumference and draw 180* diameters conecting all the 10* around the circle. That is how you can see circles in the corners of the coffers If ther are two coffers next to each other either vertically or horizontally.
16
this illusion is posted wrong
your supposed to stare at the white cross and then 16 circles start to appear and eventually that all you can see
people seeing more either cant count or are seeing circle fragments and imagining more because thats what they wantwbxvkd
i see 16 baby
..i found 32.
16!!!!!!!
Is the illusion that the circles are there or that they are not there?
THere’s sixteen!oh yeah!
Staring at the X helps. Wow…that’s cool!!!
The people that see 25 are seeing the parts between the “real” circles. What you are supposed to see is that the vertical lines all make up the background and the horizontal lines are all in the circles. So if you see horizontal lines, they are part of the 16 circles, and the vertical lines are all part of the background. Basically, the people who see 26 are looking at the spaces between 4 of the “real” 16 circles and thinking they kinda look like circles, too.
There are really twenty-five circles
AT FIRST I THOUGHT THERE WERE ONLY 16 BUT THEN I LOOKED REALLY CLOSLY AND SAW 25 AND THEY ARE NOT FRAGMENTS OF A CIRCLE
Wow, it all depends if your eyes try to line them up straight or sideways. fantastic.
Huh wtf how can you see 25 circles??? there are only 16…
i see 25!
I see dead people
Lol! Best response yet
i only see 16. i can’t find 20 or 25.
lessa is right we found 25 circles
audit i can’t find any how do u do this
Topperrrr! >> 31
Or:
Hmm, there are no circles. There are only approximations (..duh..) of circles; 16 of them are 'clearly' visible between the groups of vertical lines; 9 more are suggested (and incomplete at the bottom and top)in the complementary space between the circles mentioned first; and the final 6 are in the same vertical space but then cut off by the boundaries of the picture.
Wow… that was like magic! After like 10 seconds they magical appeared =)
I saw them before
9+16
i was gonna say 16 but it’s 25 :)
I see
Even though you can pretend like there’s 25, there’s really only 16 circles in the picture.
Yeah I know u newbs will say it’s 9 + 16, but the 9 circles aren’t really full circles, since u can’t see the edge of the 9 circles on the top and the bottom. So the correct answer is 16 circles (and 9*2 = 18 half circles).
16
i see 32
I see the moon!
yup .. got 16 circles .. !!! coooool … !!
i can see 16!!! very nice !! kind of head aching if you try too hard like i did hahaha
Yes, only 16 circles, this is fact. Those who say 25 doesn’t know what a circle is. You can pretend there are 25, but the fact remains, only 16.
So as soon as I looked at before I even read how many there were , all i could see were 16 cirlces and nothing else.
I was looking at it when I stopped I could still see the circles O.o
I see twenty eight being a logical person if you look im between the columns not just the rows
I see it they ate in between the recyangles going up and down
16
I see 28…
Wait no I see 25.
all 16 on the first try!
16!!!!
I saw 16 immediately but I don’t see 25 or 32..
I can see 25. 16 main ones, 4 rows of 4; then 9 less obvious ones in between them, 3 rows of 3.
Yes, there’s only 16. Using the graphic design principle of closure you could see an additional 9 circle. But YES, there’s only 16 that appear clearly without having to really look for the others. I saw all 16 right off. Not the best illusion, but still good. :)
easy to see
Nobody see’s 40??? WOW
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16 cirlces
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I copy and pasted this into ms paint, zoomed in and looked the pixels, there are exactly 16 circles in this picture.[img]http://25.media.tumblr.com/e221987915eae2f2a82790e89847631b/tumblr_mlv89tkfj11rj8cpxo1_400.jpg[/img]
There r 16 circles between two windows
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I’ll show you a freaken circle! Honestly took me a hour. 16 ..I only saw them once I stopped looking for them, go figure.
45 circles, 20 small circle + 16 median circle + 9 large circle = 45! No?
I counted 44
I found 25 also!! I would love to know what the person who designed it says about how many circles there are meant to be!
I see 48…
32
There are no circle. These are square. Learned the difference between a circles and a squares in preschool!!!!