I am not a big fan of these optical illusion stuff you find online but this is the first time I see one that works like this.
“Just stare at the dot for 30 seconds. Then, without moving your eyes, move the mouse over the image. It will look like it’s in color until you move your eyes.”
Basically the black and white picture will end up looking as if its in full color. Freaky. [Link]
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I’ve gone blind!!
Mark, I don’t know if you’ve seen this one. I thought it was really impressive:
https://web.mit.edu/persci/people/adelson/checkershadow_illusion.html
yeah i saw it last june
https://248am.com/mark/interesting/the-best-optical-illustion-ever/
I hope you’re being sarcastic. Just mouse over it without staring at the dot.
and what would that accomplish thamer?
I studied this in colour theory. It’s all about complimentary colours. If you get a colour wheel and pick a colour, the one on the opposite end is the complimentary colour of the one you picked, eg: blue is facing orange, and red facing green, etc. If you look at one colour for a period of time, then stare at a blank space, or white wall, you will see its complimentary colour flashing after everytime you blink.
Nice post:-)
Mark, it wouldn’t really accomplish much other than ruin the “illusion”. It’s not really an illusion, it’s just a mouseover. Look at the source code for the javascript.
It’s actually two images.
Here’s the first one: https://www.johnsadowski.com/2006_stuffs/manzana1.jpg
Here’s the second one:
https://www.johnsadowski.com/2006_stuffs/manzana2.jpg
See? No magic.
dude you dont seem to have gotten the illusion. if you stare at that weird colored picture for 30 seconds and then hover over the picture the black and white picture will come up but you will end up seeing the black and white picture in full color. try it yourself and see.
i cant believe u thought the illusion was the mouseover lol
Oh, hehe. My fault.
Hey Mark, You don’t have to stare at it for 30 seconds. After a couple of seconds, when you really concentrate, you will see the illusion.
I love these optical illusions. The only problem is that nowadays when someone asks me to ‘stare’ at something for 30 seconds, I’m scared there’s going to be a frightening scream and that girl from the exorcist at the end of it =)
(something like this: https://www.eyetricks.com/scary_optical_illusion2.htm)
Hey guys, this has to do with the way your eyes perceive colors. When you stare at a color for a while, your “rods” the nerves responsbile for storing the colors as chemical signals, get..well basically, fed up… ANd they start submitting the inverse, or negative, of these colors. The “distorted” image is the same picture, but with the negative colors. Try it in photoshop. You can do it with any image you can obtain a negative off.
it does not work i done it and when the mouse went of it was collured and my sis who did not do it came over and saw the coller
Talluhah
I stared at you comment for 30 seconds, but it still didn’t come out as being English!
Bugger, I meant YOUR, not you!!!!!
WHat the hell “dogbert?! That scared me! i didnt know this was a gif image! whats up? i hate those images, theyare so annoying!