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Test Your Brain: Never trust your eyes!

DaltheJigsawDaltheJigsaw Mountain View Veteran
edited October 2011 in General Banter


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  • DandelionDandelion London Veteran
    :clap: I got it right - although I did count on my hands! If it had gone on for much longer I would have lost count though I think!
  • MountainsMountains Veteran
    Check this one... One of my favorites.
  • zombiegirlzombiegirl beating the drum of the lifeless in a dry wasteland Veteran
    Check this one... One of my favorites.
    OMG. i actually had to open up photoshop to compare because i didn't believe it. looking at it, i still cannot believe this is true, but i used the eyedropper tool to compare and the color did not change one percent on the color picker. holy crap you just blew my mind.

    what is the explanation for such a phenomenon? our eyes are more slated to recognize color contrast than actual color?
  • CloudCloud Veteran
    If I look at that picture and then let my eyes sorta go out of focus/crossed, I can begin to see that A and B are the same exact color. It's difficult though.
  • possibilitiespossibilities PNW, WA State Veteran
    I had to find proof to believe it:
    http://persci.mit.edu/gallery/checkershadow/proof

    Awesome!
  • personperson Don't believe everything you think The liminal space Veteran
    Think about black letters projected on a movie screen. You can't actually project black light. The letters are actually just the color of the white movie screen with a brighter white projected around it. Its a good example of interdependence, how a certain quality doesn't exist in its own right, but only in relation to objects around it.
  • MountainsMountains Veteran
    The human brain is ridiculously easy to snooker (as five minutes perusing political news proves...ahem...). This is just a perception test, that's all. You perceive the squares to be different colors, so to your brain they *are* different colors. There has been a lot of outstanding scientific research into the idea of "eyewitness testimony" in recent years. Basically, I don't want any human being's recollection to be used either for or against me in a court proceeding! We see and hear exactly what we want to see and hear...
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