Amazing how dumb out minds are

sci0x

Right, The Square A and B are exactly the same colour. Use paint or anything to cut a piece of it out and match them together.

robbie1876

You made a balls of explaining it. Try:



Look closely at tile A and B. They seem to be different shades of gray. They are actually the same exact shade.

Don't believe it? Try opening up the image in Paint or another image editor and put the 2 tiles side by side.


Pretty cool, though....

RobertFoster

both = #666666

DEmeant0r

Yeah, saw that way back. I was confused about what it was on about then.

SantaHoe

Oooh very good.
Although I see it more as - 'look at how good we are at discerning patterns/judging distances', not 'look at how thick we are'... tbh I'm not bothered if a few milenia of evolution hasn't gifted me with RGB colour matching... in another few hundred generations maybe.

Jim

Look the same to me.

woosaysdan

seen it b4 still amazes me though

DrummerBoy

Originally posted by sci0x
Amazing how dumb out minds are

Personally, I think the title also gives us a little clue

Spunog UIE

yip

mike65

Gak! Not this again!

Mike.

byte

Never seen this one before. Pretty cool

Tusky

I will never understand that.

The Song Thrush

That would drive anyone mad.

But I guess they look different because A appears darker because the surrounding squares are brighter, and vice-versa for B

funky penguin

What the hell are you on aboot?!?!
They're clearly different colours.

tba

here is a graphical comparison

Tusky

Originally posted by tba
here is a graphical comparison

They are still different colors there...

Fingers

LoL. It's a computer trick rather than a mind trick. Suckers.

EDIT: Scratch what I said above. They are the same colour!!! You just have to stair at them long enough to see it. Class.

Oriel

Runfree

Here is another graphical comparison.

pork99

The effect is called simultaneous contrast.

I have a colour theory book somewhere which does the same trick with a coloured square which looks like a different colour against orange and blue backgrounds. I think it was a brown which looked greenish in one context and orangeish in the other.

http://www.colorcube.com/illusions/scstripe.htm

http://www.colorcube.com/illusions/scindctn.htm

http://webexhibits.org/colorart/contrast.html

http://www.cut-the-knot.org/Curriculum/Geometry/Contrast.shtml

whosurpaddy

Originally posted by robbie1876
Look closely at tile A and B.

im convinced this is just a play on words. tile A and B are the exact same, tile A and Tile B arent though. get me? as in the background of tile A and the letter B are the same colour. am i right

sci0x

No, thats the thing, tile A and tile B are the same colour, not the letters. Thats what we have been proving through the whole thread. They are the same colour but if you look in the first diagram that i frist posted they look different.

Oriel

whosurpaddy,

Which part of:

Originally posted by Sinecure

didn't you get?

pork99

Originally posted by whosurpaddy
im convinced this is just a play on words. tile A and B are the exact same, tile A and Tile B arent though. get me? as in the background of tile A and the letter B are the same colour. am i right

If you are looking for an explanation I'll post these links again

http://www.colorcube.com/illusions/scindctn.htm

http://webexhibits.org/colorart/contrast.html

Gurgle

Thats the coolest thing I've seen all day.

joseph brand

@Pork99

that last link has my brain all over the place, AAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!

UnrealQueen

What the heck is goin on??? Tile A has a grey background, Tile B has a white background. Since when are grey and white the same colour.????

robbie1876

LOL @ UnrealQueen...

weemcd

ffs unreal listen. if you have photoshop or some similar program, use the tool which matches colours, not using this tool in photoshop, (i cant remember the name" tile A and tile B's colours match almost exactly. the colours are 107 on the red, green and blue palettes

Kêrmêttê

That's freaky! Is it something to do with the shadow cast by the cylinder that causes the 2 tiles to appear to be different shades??
Im getting a pain in my eyes trying to figure it out :dunno:

tba

Originally posted by Kêrmêttê
That's freaky! Is it something to do with the shadow cast by the cylinder that causes the 2 tiles to appear to be different shades??
Im getting a pain in my eyes trying to figure it out :dunno:

Yes