My poor eyes!

DoctorBeaver · « **on:** 03/12/2005 00:45:37 »

I'm not sure if this link has been posted here before or not

http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html

Some of illusions are truly stunning

Solvay_1927 · « **Reply #1 on:** 03/12/2005 02:23:49 »

This is a good one, Eth. Thanks.

(I particularly liked looking at your bulge.)

neilep · « **Reply #2 on:** 03/12/2005 03:48:41 »

Thanks Eth. The Eclipse of Mars is WOW !!...but the Vision Distorter towards the bottom of the page is amazing and unnerving......Woooooo !! and the rest of the site is great too.

(Oh yes,like Paul,I particularly liked looking at your bulge)

Men are the same as women.... just inside out !!

DoctorBeaver · « **Reply #3 on:** 03/12/2005 03:53:20 »

I particularly like the 3D tube thing. It really looked as if it was coming out of my screen & that I could actually grab it

DoctorBeaver · « **Reply #4 on:** 03/12/2005 11:59:25 »

There's some very clever stuff here

http://www.gauravjalan.com/entertainment/pictures/strange/illusion/FrameSet.htm

ukmicky · « **Reply #5 on:** 03/12/2005 14:07:42 »

That Checker Shadow Illusion is amazine i even copied it into paint just to check

Michael

neilep · « **Reply #6 on:** 03/12/2005 14:59:04 »

I can't see it myself, even the boxes look like different colours to me.

Men are the same as women.... just inside out !!

ukmicky · « **Reply #7 on:** 03/12/2005 15:37:35 »

if you import it into paint and use the tool thats looks like a dropper which allows you to picks colours from the picture it turns out that a & b are exactly the same colour weird but true.

Michael

neilep · « **Reply #8 on:** 03/12/2005 16:24:10 »

Mchael...actually, I know !!!...the piccy above was a little attempt at buffoonery ! hee hee !!

Men are the same as women.... just inside out !!

DoctorBeaver · « **Reply #9 on:** 03/12/2005 16:44:19 »

That checkerbox shadow does me in! No matter how you look at it, the squares look totally different until you use the colour picker to check it

neilep · « **Reply #10 on:** 03/12/2005 16:59:29 »

It is indeed enough to make you choke on your eyebrows !!

Men are the same as women.... just inside out !!

DoctorBeaver · « **Reply #11 on:** 04/12/2005 02:36:43 »

I still don't understand how that works [

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ukmicky · « **Reply #12 on:** 04/12/2005 03:03:07 »

I dissected the picture in adobe photo shop and put the two squares next to each other and I'm still flummoxed

Michael

neilep · « **Reply #13 on:** 04/12/2005 03:58:45 »

Despite what the computer says..they ARE different shades of grey !!...Do you think it could be a computational error ?...I know that sounds far fetched but they ARE different...but the computer sees them as the same .

Sherlock Holmes "How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? "

Men are the same as women.... just inside out !!

DoctorBeaver · « **Reply #14 on:** 04/12/2005 11:11:05 »

I just used an HTML colour picker & got the same value for both squares - 6B6B6B

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DoctorBeaver · « **Reply #15 on:** 05/12/2005 01:46:55 »

Michael - I used Adobe too. I cut a section of the darker-looking square & slid it onto the lighter 1. Even when it was right next to it, it looked different. As I slid it onto the square, however, it merged perfectly. WAAAAAAAAAAAA! [

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neilep · « **Reply #16 on:** 05/12/2005 03:16:03 »

How can they deceive the eyes so ?...When I use my eyes I believe I see two different shades.....because I do !!!... Even when placed by side those squares are different !..The computer can not physically 'see' it as we do..It screws with your head doesn't it ?...

I too have used my computer to read the colour values, same result as you guys....... but...it is so frustrating because we know that we indeed do see them differently with our own eyes !! the computer does not,....so despite what ever the computer tells me...I can see for myself that they are different

Men are the same as women.... just inside out !!

DoctorBeaver · « **Reply #17 on:** 05/12/2005 11:56:57 »

Anyone got a spectroscope lying around?

DoctorBeaver · « **Reply #18 on:** 05/12/2005 11:59:44 »

quote:
Do you think it could be a computational error ?

Neil - I don't think that can be the cause. As I said, I cut a section of the darker square & slid it onto the lighter 1 & it merged perfectly. If it were a computational error that would not have happened.

DoctorBeaver · « **Reply #19 on:** 05/12/2005 12:15:04 »

I just tried something really clever!
I made a 2-tone video matte with the darker colour as the central mask & superimposed it over a still image. I set the matte so that the central mask would be transparent. I then made another mask with the lighter shade as the mask but kept the transparency settings from the original. It was still transparent.
As a final check, I made a 3-tone matte - the lefthand 3rd as the darker shade, righthand 3rd as the lighter, and separated them with green. I chose 1st the darker & then the lighter as the transparent colour with the luminosity, RGB colour, & hue/saturation tolerances all set to 1%. In both instances all I could see was the green.

My poor eyes!

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