Saturday 2 October 2010

Optical Illusions

Via Stewart Cowan's great Real Street blog, I came across this illusion from the Daily Mail:


I love illusions and thought they cannot be the same.  I covered up the squares with pieces of paper and my hands and was still convinced they were different shades of grey.  However I cut out the squares from the image using Macromedia Fireworks and this is what I got:


Amazing isn't it?  If you don't believe me, try it yourself.

Don't always believe what your brain is telling you.
Posted by Beware of Geeks bearing GIFs at 17:03 http://www.wikio.co.uk
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  1. Stewart Cowan2 October 2010 at 21:53

    Thank you for your endorsement and for investigating this. I did something similar on CorelDraw. They were the same shade. It's amazing. Question everything!

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