EYE TRICK : I Cannot Believe This!

[Kenji4861]

http://www.spoofee.com/images/random/checkershadow-ab.jpg

Do you see it?

 

[gopunk]

 

[aphex]

forgive me, but i believe this was posted last week... sorry bro

LINK

 

[Eli]

 

[bacillus]

I'm still confused!

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

The A & B squares are the same color. Damned if they look it, but load it up in an image editor and sample the color from both squares, they match.

 

[TuxDave]

Ya, this was posted before. I think there's two reasons for why it looks so different. The first is the obvious one where an object surrounded by white colors will seem lighter than the same object surrounded by dark objects. In addition, there's a shadow. So when we see an object within a shadow, our brains will try to extract the original color (not the darkened color due to the shadow) so it'll make square b seem even lighter. So it's like a double whammy.

 

[tcsenter]

I hate that illusion. I just spent a half-hour of my life trying to train my brain to "see" those two damned squares as the same shade. Now my head hurts.

 

[Kanalua]

Whoa...pretty nuts...