Mighty Optical Illusions » colors http://www.moillusions.com Biggest Optical Illusions blog. Dedicated to visual phenomena and real life illusions. Daily updated. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:07:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Count the Colors, Read the Solution http://www.moillusions.com/2009/06/count-the-colors-read-the-solution.html http://www.moillusions.com/2009/06/count-the-colors-read-the-solution.html#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:45:43 +0000 Vurdlak http://www.moillusions.com/?p=3258 How Many Colors Are There?This is an oldie, but we rarely see this kind of optical illusions in its full effect. Ok, this is what I want you to do: count how many different colors you can see in this spiral below. Unfortunately color-blind individuals will only see a grayish pattern, so this won’t work for them (those of [...]]]> This is an oldie, but we rarely see this kind of optical illusions in its full effect. Ok, this is what I want you to do: count how many different colors you can see in this spiral below. Unfortunately color-blind individuals will only see a grayish pattern, so this won’t work for them (those of you can remain occupied reading this article). Rest of you, be sure first to notice that there are two different shades of pink, and then you may start counting. Most of us will end up with 4 different colors (2 pinkish ones, blue and a green). Well this was the wrong answer! Yes, you heard me right. There are actually only 3 colors present here. To see what I mean, check the second picture. It shows you how this image would look like if we removed those pinkish colors in background. Amazing, isn’t it? You may recall candy stripes we posted waaay back. It’s almost the same!

How Many Colors Are There?

How Many Colors Are There?

This is the same picture, with pink shades removed.

This is the same picture, with pink shades removed.

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