#[1]Main [2]Bad Astronomy RSS Feed [3]DISCOVER Magazine. Science, Technology and The Future * * [4]Log In * [5]Subscribe * [6]Give a Gift * [7]Archives * [8]Customer Service SEARCH ____________________ [bt_searchBoxSubmit.gif]-Submit * [9]Health & Medicine * [10]Mind & Brain * [11]Technology * [12]Space * [13]Human Origins * [14]Living World * [15]Environment * [16]Physics & Math * [17]Video * [18]Photos * [19]Podcast * [20]RSS [21]Blogs / [22]Bad Astronomy « [23]A skeptical reading list [24]Blobs, black holes, and exploding stars! » [25]The blue and the green [26]submit to reddit Via my evil twin [27]Richard Wiseman comes one of the best color optical illusions I have ever seen. The original was apparently posted on [DEL: [28]Buzzhunt :DEL] [29]Akiyoshi Kitaoka's incredible optical illusion website: [30]Blue green spiral illusion You see embedded spirals, right, of green, pinkish-orange, and blue? Incredibly, the green and the blue spirals are the same color. At first I thought Richard was pulling our collective legs, being a trickster of high magnitude. So I loaded the image in Photoshop and examined the two spirals. In the two squares displayed below, the one on the left is colored using the same color from the blue spiral, and on the right using the green spiral. green and blue squares Like I said, incredible! For pedantry sake, the RGB colors in both spirals are 0, 255, 150. So they are mostly green with a solid splash of blue. The reason they look different colors is because our brain judges the color of an object by comparing it to surrounding colors. In this case, the stripes are not continuous as they appear at first glance. The orange stripes don't go through the "blue" spiral, and the magenta ones don't go through the "green" one. Here's a zoom to make this more clear: Blue green spirals zoom See? The orange stripes go through the "green" spiral but not the "blue" one. So without us even knowing it, our brains compare that spiral to the orange stripes, forcing it to think the spiral is green. The magenta stripes make the other part of the spiral look blue, even though they are exactly the same color. If you still don't believe me, concentrate on the edges of the colored spirals. Where the green hits the magenta it looks bluer to me, and where the blue hits the orange it looks greener. Amazing. The overall pattern is a spiral shape because our brain likes to fill in missing bits to a pattern. Even though the stripes are not the same color all the way around the spiral , the overlapping spirals makes our brain think they are. The very fact that you have to examine the picture closely to figure out any of this at all shows just how easily we can be fooled. This is why I tell people over and over again: you cannot trust what you see even with your own eyes. Your eyes are not cameras faithfully taking pictures of absolute truth of all that surrounds you. They have filters, and your brain has to interpret the jangled mess it gets fed. Colors are not what they appear, shapes are not what they appear (that zoomed image above is square, believe it or not), objects are not what they appear. So the next time someone swears they saw Jesus, or a UFO, or a ghost, show them this picture. What you see in life is absolutely and provably not what you get. Edit to add: if you like this illusion, then you might want to check out [31]this audio illusion, and [32]this one of a spinning woman's sillhouette which is one of my all-time favorites. June 24th, 2009 10:34 AM by [33]Phil Plait in [34]Antiscience, [35]Cool stuff, [36]Skepticism | 284 comments | [37]RSS feed | [38]Trackback > 284 Responses to "The blue and the green" 1. 1. John Baxter Says: [39]June 24th, 2009 at 10:45 am My grandfather, head of the psychology department at U Michigan for years (through the depression and beyond both ways, I believe) loved this sort of thing. He would have been delighted with this one. Wow! (Off topic: he also loved multi-lingual puns, which kept the family "amused.") 2. 2. [40]Carriep Says: [41]June 24th, 2009 at 10:45 am That is extremely trippy, but wicked cool. If you really get your nose to the monitor, you can start to see that the blue-green spirals are the same color. 3. 3. [42]scibuff Says: [43]June 24th, 2009 at 10:46 am Just in case anyone is wondering, wordpress image uploader adjusts images in a way that causes colors to change slightly. If you want to truly examine the image in photoshop use the one from the [44]original post. 4. 4. [45]John Rinehart Says: [46]June 24th, 2009 at 10:48 am This is way cool. In my non-majors biology course I spend a great deal of time discussing color vision and color processing as an example of sensory perception, and this will be a fun illusion to bookmark. Students are always astounded that perception of chroma, tonal value, and even hue are vastly influenced by context, but it makes perfect sense from an evolutionary standpoint. So does trichromatic vision, and the wavelengths of light our photoreceptors favor. Thanks for posting this! 5. 5. Stickend Says: [47]June 24th, 2009 at 10:52 am Try as I might, I can't see Jesus, a UFO or a ghost in this picture. What am I missing? 6. 6. rob Says: [48]June 24th, 2009 at 10:53 am even at the very center of the spiral, where the two arms meet and are close together, they *still* look differently colored. cool. 7. 7. Charles Boyer Says: [49]June 24th, 2009 at 10:56 am These are tricks a good artist learns very quickly. Even in photography they work well. 8. 8. wright Says: [50]June 24th, 2009 at 10:56 am My late stepfather wrote a book on optical illusions; he was fond of saying "We make up reality as we go along." This is a great example of that. Not only do we make assumptions and play fill-in-the-blanks at the cognitive level, but apparently at the autonomic level too! And we have to, in order to comprehend the vast amount of input our senses provide. Otherwise we would be overwhelmed, as some autistics are. The price is that our perceptions are not completely reliable, and we need to recognize that. 9. 9. [51]Becca Stareyes Says: [52]June 24th, 2009 at 10:59 am I'm an amateur artist. One trick I learned was to always color the background first, even if I just gave it a flat color and didn't worry about the details yet, for precisely this reason. If the background was dark, I'd start to pick darker colors by eye to paint in the foreground, and give it the look of a low-light painting. If I didn't color the background, I'd paint things as if they were brightly lit, and then have to go back and change everything around. (Similarly, if I knew the scene should be tinted -- say, a sunset -- I should get the sky or surrounding colors first, so everything else would look right. 10. 10. Lorax Says: [53]June 24th, 2009 at 11:01 am Funny, my image program says something else. If I use the color picker to sample from each spiral, and then paste blocks of them side by side in a new image, there's a visible contrast line (and the RGB values are not the same). They seem not to be the same color. Tried it a different way, and used flood fill to replace all the orange and pink with black. The two spirals appear to be somewhat different colors. With the pink and orange gone they look a lot more similar, but it seems not correct to say they are identical. 11. 11. BJN Says: [54]June 24th, 2009 at 11:06 am It's not the eyes you can't trust, it's mostly the brain's wetware image processing that leads us astray. We can't believe our own brains, at least not without a big dollop of skepticism. 12. 12. [55]Carlos Grohmann Says: [56]June 24th, 2009 at 11:18 am Very cool. I was just revising this kind of concept for a Remote Sensing class on color theory. Excellent example! 13. 13. SteveG Says: [57]June 24th, 2009 at 11:32 am This is very cool and I love optical illusions. However to be fair, I noticed upon closer inspection that the green stripes that are surrounded by purple are outlined with a dark blue. The brain naturally blends these two colors into one. (The brain can only blend light, unlike sound where we can "hear" the different frequencies; you can't "see" the different colors once they are blended together). So IMHO the two strips ARE different colors. I suspect the effect is similar without the dark blue outlines but I'd have to see it to be sure. You know, evidence. 14. 14. Jenn Says: [58]June 24th, 2009 at 11:33 am I love science! /sighs happily once again 15. 15. [59]Moe Lane » Dude, indeed. Says: [60]June 24th, 2009 at 11:38 am [...] click on this link to see what's so interesting about [...] 16. 16. ak Says: [61]June 24th, 2009 at 11:40 am If I shrink the image to the size of a small fingernail and move a meter away from it, I can still see the illusion perfectly clearly, even though I cannot (consciously) see any cross-lines in the spirals. Unbelievable! What resolution for lines and color the eye must have. Never trust your brain. As a matter of fact, avoid using it at all costs... 17. 17. [62]Duncan Watson Says: [63]June 24th, 2009 at 11:46 am @Steve,Your brain is fooling you re: blue outline. Zoom in and you will see that "blue outline" remains the same size even as you zoom in deeper and deeper. 18. 18. [64]Charlie Says: [65]June 24th, 2009 at 11:47 am Verified! The colors in both areas show a hex value of 00FF8A according to the color selection tool on my computer. 19. 19. Carla Says: [66]June 24th, 2009 at 12:07 pm @SteveG - Actually, they're not. that blue `outline' is also being assumed by your brain, since right there the blue/green color is touching the magenta. Open it up in an image-editing program, and zoom in really close. 20. 20. Steve Says: [67]June 24th, 2009 at 12:17 pm Using "Colorzilla", a firefox HTML color plugin, I can verify that both of those colors are exactly the same. They both have the hexadecimal value of #00FF97. Really cool! 21. 21. Mike Says: [68]June 24th, 2009 at 12:28 pm The illusion becomes more interesting when SteveG 'sees' the green stripes being surrounded by dark blue. Using the eyedropper in Photoshop there are only three colors :- R 0 G 255 B 150 - Green R 255 G 0 B 255 - Purple R 255 G 150 B 0 - Orange SteveG must be 'seeing' a dark blue i.e R 0 G 0 B 255 by subracting the red and green components. Is this evidence of some red/green defect in his vision? 22. 22. Dungheap Says: [69]June 24th, 2009 at 12:34 pm "However to be fair, I noticed upon closer inspection that the green stripes that are surrounded by purple are outlined with a dark blue." Do you perchance have glasses? I thought the same thing, but it turned out to be refraction from my glasses lenses. Try turning your head from side to side and see if the dark stripes change size. Also, look at the embiggened section and note that the dark blue stripes are smaller than the expanded pixels. 23. 23. jaroslav hasek Says: [70]June 24th, 2009 at 12:34 pm wow, that is crazy. that reminds me of the time i was watching a color television set and it turns out that explosion of seemingly varied colors were all made of just 3 differently colored pixels!!! somehow my brain compared each of the thousands of tiny pixels against each other and fooled istelf into thinking i was watching an episode of law and order! sorry brain, but youre not a camera, better luck next time! what a fantastic optical illusion!!!! YEAH!!!!! 24. 24. Mark Says: [71]June 24th, 2009 at 12:48 pm @SteveG Your "HO" is wrong. The strips are the same color. The "dark blue" outline effect is another optical illusion. Grab any basic image program and zoom into the image without scaling or smoothing turned on. The pixels are one of 3 colors in the image. The gif image data has a 4 color palette: JASC-PAL 0100 16 0 0 0 (black) 255 150 0 (orange) 255 0 255 (purple) 0 255 150 (teal) 25. 25. Dan I. Says: [72]June 24th, 2009 at 12:49 pm Pretty cool. Looking at it again I noticed that when I look at the very ends of the blue bands (where they leave the frame) they ALMOST look their true color. Very cool, definitely saving this one. 26. 26. [73]Brody Maddox Says: [74]June 24th, 2009 at 12:50 pm Very cool stuff. But I don't think this explains UFO sightings. 27. 27. [75]Chris J Says: [76]June 24th, 2009 at 1:01 pm Where I work, we do image manipulation for publishing. I passed this around the staff. Loved it. 28. 28. Kyle Says: [77]June 24th, 2009 at 1:07 pm Using the same trick as finding the image in those "magic picture" books I could get both strips the same....I think. 29. 29. Dzipi Says: [78]June 24th, 2009 at 1:12 pm This is actually my favorite illusion although I encountered it in different shape (color :)): [79]http://web.mit.edu/persci/people/adelson/checkershadow_illusion .html 30. 30. [80]"My eyes! My eyes!" etc. « Masks of Eris Says: [81]June 24th, 2009 at 1:15 pm [...] here and see what he's talking about. It's a prime example of the way sight, that seemingly so [...] 31. 31. [82]Jonathan McDowell Says: [83]June 24th, 2009 at 1:30 pm That's fabulous! Do I get points for spotting the T.P. reference? 32. 32. John Baxter Says: [84]June 24th, 2009 at 1:34 pm Hmmm...it's quite different when printed (on my printer at least, but as expected). The green spiral arms and the two small square green samples are light blue; the blue spiral arms are dark blue. Note: if you print, select the desired pages (IE 8 gave me 7 pages of scratch paper and two relevant pages when I carelessly let the machine print all pages). 33. 33. Karen Says: [85]June 24th, 2009 at 1:40 pm Brody, it's not meant to "explain" UFO sightings, it's an illustration that what you think you see can be a lie, and that general rule is part of what allows people to think that mundane terrestrial objects are spaceships. Or, to rephrase the summary, once you have it proven to you beyond a doubt that the blue and green are actually the same colour, *and* even after knowing this when you look at the picture again, they *still* look like two different colours, how can you say with absolute certainty that the UFO you think you saw (at night, in the middle of the woods, with nobody else around) absolutely had to be visitors from another planet? Really, this illusion doesn't need to "explain" UFO sightings, as such sightings tend to get explained on a regular basis. 34. 34. [86]Optical illusion, mathematical illusion -- The Endeavour Says: [87]June 24th, 2009 at 1:44 pm [...] the green look blue. I know you don't believe me; I didn't believe it either. See this blog post for an explanation, including a magnified close-up of the image. Or open it in an image editor and [...] 35. 35. [88]BadMA Says: [89]June 24th, 2009 at 1:58 pm Hmm, interesting. I have trouble with seeing reds and greens, and when I saw that image I had to strain to see the effect that Phil is talking about. The green looked the same to me in both areas! 36. 36. John Swindle Says: [90]June 24th, 2009 at 2:03 pm Fooled me, and fooled my computer,too! I copied the image to my desktop, and my system made an icon, using a reduced version of the picture. On close examination, the "blue" and "green" spirals in the icon actually ARE blue and green. This may provide a hint as to why Lorax, and maybe some others, saw differing shades of blue/green instead of exactly identical colors. Instead of making an exact copy, the computer may have made an approximation. 37. 37. rpsms Says: [91]June 24th, 2009 at 2:04 pm Using photoshop: bottom layer: green top layer: orange or magenta, "overlay" "50% opacity. Arrives at virtually the same color(s). 38. 38. Jeffersonian Says: [92]June 24th, 2009 at 2:06 pm I see Phil's shower curtain. I've enjoyed these since Psych101 when our prof showed us tons. BTW, there are lots of great on-monitor optical illusions like this. tinyurl.com/dgs64g 39. 39. [93]Celtic_Evolution Says: [94]June 24th, 2009 at 2:08 pm Oh, this is just full of win... I just linked to this entry on my blog... very cool. 40. 40. Arnold Martin Says: [95]June 24th, 2009 at 2:25 pm Oddly enough, cameras are not "faithfully taking pictures of absolute truth of all that surrounds you" either. Simple issues like who points the camera, at what, with how wide or narrow a lens and why as well as what is going on behind the camera make the "truths" told by photographic imagery fully lacking in any factual kind of truth. Layer on photographic manipulation, be it analog or digital, and not only does the idea of "truth" dissolve completely but so does the idea of "objectivity." This is why critical thinking is so crucial, perhaps more than ever. Thanks Dr. Plait for nurturing and promoting this kind of thought. Maybe your effort is a drop in the bucket, but if enough people learn to think and question like this we could fill an ocean with the results. 41. 41. TheBlackCat Says: [96]June 24th, 2009 at 2:33 pm Simple issues like who points the camera, at what, with how wide or narrow a lens and why as well as what is going on behind the camera make the "truths" told by photographic imagery fully lacking in any factual kind of truth. Add to that the fact that cameras, both analog and digital, are designed to emphasize greens to better match the way our eyes work. 42. 42. Aaron S. Says: [97]June 24th, 2009 at 2:37 pm I just went into Photoshop and removed the purple and orange lines. This is what I came up with. [98]http://imgur.com/FFxtB.jpg Pretty neat illusion. 43. 43. T_U_T Says: [99]June 24th, 2009 at 2:39 pm Be careful people. Don't overgeneralize. The fact that our visual processing fails while processing an completely artificial pattern does not mean that it is worthless, or even very unreliable under normal circumstances under which it has evolved. Otherwise it is just a matter of time before some postmodern loon pops in and declares every empirical evidence and every reasoning faulty and worthless. And you surely don't mean "We can't believe our own brains" literally, because then you would have to dismiss every and each of your thoughts ( including the thought that you have to dismiss each and every thought you have ) yielding a complete does not compute paralysis of thought. 44. 44. Torbjörn Larsson, OM Says: [100]June 24th, 2009 at 2:47 pm The price is that our perceptions are not completely reliable, If it's any consolation, odds are that machine perceptions will end up skewed as well, not only from inherent processing problems. Just read about object recognition, where scientists made an order of magnitude compression just by mimicking how eyes work. (In this case, how we locate and track objects.) Our perceptions are highly adapted for low rate, noisy, biological signal pathways. Technology can benefit, and be corrupted, from that. (That said, I do think a decent color imager could sort out the true color above even in such cases. But they may make other mistakes.) 45. 45. [101]Las espirales verde y azul... que en realidad son del mismo color : Blogografia Says: [102]June 24th, 2009 at 4:00 pm [...] palabras de Phil Plait de Bad Astronomy (que es donde lo ví) y que explicó cómo funciona... La razón por la que se ven [...] 46. 46. Blind Squirrel FCD Says: [103]June 24th, 2009 at 4:13 pm There is a much easier way to demonstrate that the colors are the same. Enlarge Phil's enlarged image. cut two holes in a couple of unpaid bills and mask out everything except for a "blue and a "green" area. Bingo! Works for the shadow illusion @29 also. 47. 47. Tim G Says: [104]June 24th, 2009 at 4:19 pm Now that's a good illusion. That's something to keep in mind when doing some interior decorating, I suppose. 48. 48. boris Says: [105]June 24th, 2009 at 4:58 pm very cool! try looking at it from a distance and then getting closer slowly.... not with the original image, with the zoomed one. 49. 49. [106]Glenn Schneider Says: [107]June 24th, 2009 at 5:03 pm I normally (but infrequently) reply only about astronomy issues - but color illusions have always tickled my fancy. Indeed all the "blue" and "green" segments are identically (R,G,B) = 0, 255, 150 ala Photoshop eyedropper. But here is a prescription also via Photoshop to convince you. 1. Save the image to a JPG (or TIFF) file and Open it in Photoshop. 2. Select the "Magic Wand" tool. 3. Set the Tolerance to zero (numerically 0), so the color match to be found is exact only. 4. Make sure the "contiguous" box is not checked 5. Put the Magic Wand cursor (central hot-spot) dead center in one of the "blue-green" arcs. 6. Click. This will select all identically colored pixels in the image 7. Do a COPY 8. From the file menu select NEW (to open a new identically sized window) 9. Click in the newly opened window (to make it active) 10. Do a Paste. 11. QED. 50. 50. James Says: [108]June 24th, 2009 at 5:44 pm Freaky stuff. 51. 51. Hans Henrik Krohn Says: [109]June 24th, 2009 at 5:45 pm Even for those of us who are Windows (XP) users and don't have Photoshop installed, there is a way to show that the blue and greens are the same. Save the image to a .gif file, and open it in Windows Paint, and zoom in to 800 %. You will now be able to recognize that the two different colours are actually the same; but of course you can try moving an area of previos "green" to "blue", and thus convince yourself further. Re comment 13 above, it appears you need to zoom precisely to 100, 200, 400 or 800 (or so onwards) %; tools that don't allow you to be this precise, will show non-existent "border colours" that aren't actually there. 52. 52. Aldis Ozolins Says: [110]June 24th, 2009 at 6:07 pm Neat Illusion. This reminds me of the Albers studies we had to do a couple semesters ago at art center. It's basically the same principle that the ground color can be manipulated by core color and vice versa. Its pretty hard to get the correct color combination to accomplish this. 53. 53. Keith Says: [111]June 24th, 2009 at 6:40 pm Or alternatively just do `color replacement' on the orange and blend it to purple. Voila, same colour spirals. 54. 54. [112]Three colors, not four | dv8-designs Says: [113]June 24th, 2009 at 6:41 pm [...] A truly amazing optical illusion -- despite what you first think, there are only three colors in that picture. [...] 55. 55. [114]The blue and the green | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine « Netcrema - creme de la social news via digg + delicious + stumpleupon + reddit Says: [115]June 24th, 2009 at 6:49 pm [...] The blue and the green | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazineblogs.discovermagazine.com [...] 56. 56. [116]Perception VS Reality. Perception Wins. | UI and us Says: [117]June 24th, 2009 at 7:12 pm [...] Here is the original posting of this illusion on BuzzHunt. And some followup analysis on Discover. [...] 57. 57. [118]Joseph Francis Says: [119]June 24th, 2009 at 7:33 pm Another good demonstration of the effect of context on color and why you should develop your whole painting from simple to complex, rather than polishing one area and moving on. [120]http://www.digitalartform.com/archives/2005/06/color_judgement .html 58. 58. David Says: [121]June 24th, 2009 at 7:48 pm "Where the green hits the magenta it looks bluer to me, and where the blue hits the orange it looks greener" "However to be fair, I noticed upon closer inspection that the green stripes that are surrounded by purple are outlined with a dark blue." "@Steve,Your brain is fooling you re: blue outline. Zoom in and you will see that "blue outline" remains the same size even as you zoom in deeper and deeper." Because of the way subpixels are arranged on monitors, there really is a blue stripe between each magenta/(greenish)cyan transition. The Magenta is made of 255 Red 0 Green and 255 blue and the Cyan is made of 0 Red 255 Green 150 Blue put them together and you get 255 0 255 0 255 150 The 2nd 255 is surrounded by two black subpixels. In other words, there is a blue subpixel with no subpixels directly by it to blend into. You get a similar effect by transitioning from cyan to orange, but instead there is a "pixel" made from 4 sub pixels. 0 255 150 255 150 0 The green subpixels here are as intense as the red and blue subpixels combined, so you get a bit of green in this area, though it is not as intense as the magenta/cyan transition. (None of this as has anything to do with how the primary illusion works) 59. 59. justin Says: [122]June 24th, 2009 at 8:04 pm magenta and turquoise = deep blue. If you try and zoom in on the gif with some applications such as the default I am using in Ubuntu. The computer will create a thick blue outline around the green. Blending the two colors of the pixles. Your monitor does this too, hint hint... I wouldn't be surprised if your photo receptors also are blending the colors at the edges. I'm not sure that supports the author's claim. I don't think it is as much context that is creating the illusion. Just some food for thought. I hope who ever is doing the study, considers alternate solutions. 60. 60. [123]Doug Watts Says: [124]June 24th, 2009 at 8:37 pm I learned this trickster phenomenon from my freshman 2 dimensional design art class, which was based on Josef Albers' study of human perception of color. We had to do a lot of exercises creating effects like this. It was a great course. 61. 61. Claud Says: [125]June 24th, 2009 at 8:39 pm Our minds play color tricks on us forever. We see reflected light; therefore if we are holding a piece of paper in a room with incandescent lights it is physically impossible to see a white sheet because incandescent light is more orange/red. 62. 62. Matteo Says: [126]June 24th, 2009 at 9:13 pm "This is why I tell people over and over again: you cannot trust what you see even with your own eyes. Your eyes are not cameras faithfully taking pictures of absolute truth of all that surrounds you. " Yes, but somehow you were still able to figure out how and why the blue and the green were the same color, and it is something you did with your own eyes. In order to make a sweeping general statement that our senses deceive us, we would have to know (via our senses) what the "real" situation is and compare it to the illusory situation. So our senses are plenty good enough to know that they can be deceived *sometimes*. But really, what a cool illusion! 63. 63. [127]Three colors, not four | Design Website Easy Says: [128]June 24th, 2009 at 9:21 pm [...] A truly amazing optical illusion -- despite what you first think, there are only three colors in that picture. [...] 64. 64. [129]Kralizec Says: [130]June 24th, 2009 at 10:16 pm However much it may be that the RGB composition and even the wavelength of the light are the same, nevertheless, the two colors are different, as one can see by looking at them. Understand, I'm not trying to put the matter to rest. It was already at rest, and undeservedly so. 65. 65. [131]Is that blue or is that green? | Doobybrain.com Says: [132]June 24th, 2009 at 10:30 pm [...] going toward the center? Well, what you see as green and blue is actually the same exact color (Discover Magazine has RGB proof). The visual trick here occurs because our brains "see" colors based upon the colors [...] 66. 66. RamblinDude Says: [133]June 24th, 2009 at 10:47 pm Wow. I opened it in "Paint" and cut out a square and moved it over and...sure enough, it magically turned into the same color. It would have really freaked me out if I hadn't been prepared for it! No wonder the real world is so hard to figure out. 67. 67. [134]» Amazing Optical Illusion The Crunch: Bruce Nash explores the world of data modeling and information services Says: [135]June 24th, 2009 at 11:07 pm [...] Amazing Optical Illusion Posted in June 24th, 2009 by Bruce in Uncategorized This is too good not to share. [...] 68. 68. MadScientist Says: [136]June 24th, 2009 at 11:45 pm Oooo! Pretty! I think I'll plagiarize and make a PostScript version. 69. 69. [137]Giavasan » The blue and the green Says: [138]June 24th, 2009 at 11:51 pm [...] spirali sono dello stesso colore. Ancora devo [...] 70. 70. [139]RealityPrime » Best Color Illusion I've Seen Says: [140]June 25th, 2009 at 12:05 am [...] Bad Astronomy. It takes no work to see the illusion, but a lot of effort to see past [...] 71. 71. [141]Monty Says: [142]June 25th, 2009 at 12:07 am The `outline' is not an optical illusion. It's simple chromatic aberration in the eye's focusing ability being somewhat exacerbated by the fact that a monitor is an artifical tristimulus that is itself not perfectly aligned (and this is why 'subpixel antialiasing' drives me nuts). Those of us who use lenses for correction (contacts/glasses) have it even worse. Also, the color perception illusion is not so much your brain being `fooled' or `overthinking'; it's simply that color perception (and visual perception in general) is a system of power integrals. Many aspects of hearing work the same way. 72. 72. StevoR Says: [143]June 25th, 2009 at 12:42 am Well it seems that like Shroedingers dead/alive cat (Bingo! Hattrick!*) a colour can be BOTH blue and green depending on surrounding colours /patterns. Awesome! 8) Actually, in astronomical history there's an even better example of what you're seeing NOT being an accurate reflection of Reality : Percy Lowell's non-existent but famous "Martian Canals." Lowell straining to view Mars at the limits of his vision mapped a whole series of straight and curving lines then considered to be canals created by a dying, drying out Martian civilisation but now known to be nothing more than another sort of optical illusion. ---- * See my comments on the `Quantum Entanglement' (5) & `Enceladus Ocean or not'(29) articles. 73. 73. Simmo Says: [144]June 25th, 2009 at 1:39 am Well, I'm red-green colourblind and the illusion still works for me (I also feel slightly ill now). It is supposed to be moving about, right ? 74. 74. yy2bggggs Says: [145]June 25th, 2009 at 1:40 am "The original was apparently posted on Buzzhunt" FYI, I suspect the original is here: [146]http://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/color-e.html 75. 75. [147]How many colors do you see? - Head-Fi: Covering Headphones, Earphones and Portable Audio Says: [148]June 25th, 2009 at 2:01 am [...] many colors do you see? I came across this optical illusion and writeup here. I think it's an excellent example of why the human mind really should not be trusted as an [...] 76. 76. Tom Says: [149]June 25th, 2009 at 2:10 am Great illusion. #58 David: Great comment, and a great point about not jumping to conclusions. Just as the eye attempts to reproduce the environment, so does the monitor. Both produce artifacts. (I think your comment is only correct for CRTs, not LCDs, though. #13 SteveG are you on a CRT?) It also seems that the explanation given does not sufficiently account for the phenomenon. Move away from the monitor until you can no longer see the small lines. Then keep going until you can barely see the spiral. The still appear blue and green, but there's no contrasting color visible at this point, it's just a blur. 77. 77. dude Says: [150]June 25th, 2009 at 2:10 am 2 funny. this is simply wrong! the colors are not even remotely the same. interestingly enough though, the two words that i began my post with... yeah, you see them... 2 and funny...well, first off, they aren't both words but, if they were both words they would be the same word and second off, even if 2 and funny aren't both really words, if you were to paint them green, i mean from the exact same can of paint, well, they would be the same color!!!! i'm not kidding. they would be. 78. 78. [151]Kesäviikon optinen harha - Tietokone.fi Says: [152]June 25th, 2009 at 2:39 am [...] kuva on Buzzhuntista. Discoverin Bad Astronomy -blogi käsittelee asiaa [...] 79. 79. [153]John Paradox Says: [154]June 25th, 2009 at 3:19 am (Color) blinded me with SCIENCE! J/P=? 80. 80. [155]bangalorebeat.com » Optical Illusion Says: [156]June 25th, 2009 at 4:14 am [...] over to Discover Magazine to find out [...] 81. 81. [157]Worlds greatest optical illusion - theBubbler Says: [158]June 25th, 2009 at 4:45 am [...] greatest optical illusion This makes me wonder if what we see is real at all. The blue and the green | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine __________________ I don't need an [...] 82. 82. Jim B Says: [159]June 25th, 2009 at 4:51 am Let me get this straight. Phil says, "This is why I tell people over and over again: you cannot trust what you see even with your own eyes" and "What you see in life is absolutely and provably not what you get." So what did Phil do when presented with this optical illusion? "So I loaded the image in Photoshop and examined the two spirals." What?! How did he examine them? With his eyes! Later Phil says, "Here's a zoom to make this more clear: See? The orange stripes go through the `green' spiral but not the `blue' one." But Phil, with what are we supposed to see? Our eyes? Why bother trying to see if "you cannot trust what you see even with your own eyes"? So the next time someone swears they say saw Jesus, or a UFO, or a ghost--or for that matter saw Photoshop, or an automobile, or an apple, or an ink pen--show them this picture. What you see in life is absolutely and provably not what you get. 83. 83. [160]Cuantos colores ves? - Burbuja Econ Says: [161]June 25th, 2009 at 4:51 am [...] colores ves? The blue and the green | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine Imágenes Adjuntas __________________ Unete a la red libre guifi.net "No [...] 84. 84. [162]chuza.org Says: [163]June 25th, 2009 at 4:55 am Espirais verdes e azuis... ou non? Nesta ilusión visual aparecen 2 espirais verdes e azuis, pero se vos fixades un pouco veredes que non hai tantas cores como parece. 85. 85. Fred Says: [164]June 25th, 2009 at 4:58 am Well, this is basically "only" color dithering! :) [165]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dithering#Digital_photography_and _image_processing 86. 86. Jack Says: [166]June 25th, 2009 at 5:14 am Doesn't work too well if you are colorblind. I don't see any real trick... maybe I'm not as smart as you say. 87. 87. Neosis Says: [167]June 25th, 2009 at 5:14 am This happens because, as the article says, our eyes (and in turn our brain) are not faithfully representing the world around us - and they can't. Our brain creates a simulation of what our eyes take in. We begin to model everything in our mind from the time we first see anything at all. These models serve as interpretive shortcuts. Take for example, the Necker Cube. The reason that, from a solid image, we can see two entirely different orientations of a cube is because, based on the way the cube is drawn, there are two distinct models of a cube that we have inside of our brain that the picture satisfies, while our brain ignores certain pieces of information in order to fit the picture in either case. That the human brain simulates its reality means it can simulate anything, even things that are not there. This serves as my most important skeptical objection to those who have paranormal stories that they claim have "absolutely no explanation." I'm not calling these people crazy, as their hallucinations have not persisted, merely the victim of the fact that sometimes, without any real cause besides an unfortunate chemical imbalance possibly brought on by fear or other extreme emotions, we can simulate something that does not exist. The human brain is not perfect and infallible to dysfunction. 88. 88. [168]GoGo » Archivo » El verde y el azul es el mismo color según como lo mires Says: [169]June 25th, 2009 at 5:16 am [...] palabras de Phil Plait de Bad Astronomy (que es de la fuente original de este artículo) explicó cómo funciona: La [...] 89. 89. [170]andy Says: [171]June 25th, 2009 at 5:20 am that's the best illusion i've seen in a while - freaky 90. 90. The scientist Says: [172]June 25th, 2009 at 5:21 am Take photoshop, go to replace color, select orange, set hue to -94 (the pink interspiral color) and see the green does indeed disappear, it's quite amazing. 91. 91. Dennis Bladergroen Says: [173]June 25th, 2009 at 5:23 am But if "everyone" sees the colours as green and blue, we all have the same perception although it is not strictly correct. So Einstein proves to be right again: perception is reality. 92. 92. [174]gfrast / Daily hand picked web links - mixed with a shot of reality. Says: [175]June 25th, 2009 at 5:44 am [...] Jun. 25th blogs.discovermagazine.com13:42 h incredible optical illusion 0 [...] 93. 93. [176]seguilaflecha.com Says: [177]June 25th, 2009 at 5:51 am Una curiosa ilusión óptica Una curiosa imagen y una interesante e inusual ilusión óptica a la vez. Nuestro cerebro decide sobre el color de cada línea dependiendo de los colores que la rodean. Un interesante estudio sobre como funciona nuestro cerebro y como distingue distint... 94. 94. Jimmy Mayo Says: [178]June 25th, 2009 at 5:58 am If you print this image on a color printer (hp laser jet 5550 dn) you see two diffrent green colors and no blue. Why? 95. 95. Dave Says: [179]June 25th, 2009 at 6:14 am Fascinating stuff. The greens do look the same when zoomed in at 1000% at the edge (two stripes) but sliding the 1000% view window over towards the center causes the rings to appear bluer. Not only that, but resizing to a 50×50 pixel thumbnail preserves the effect! 96. 96. Deborah Says: [180]June 25th, 2009 at 6:25 am Seurat...pointillisme 97. 97. [181]Magnum-Mare » Efecto óptico Says: [182]June 25th, 2009 at 6:34 am [...] aqui. Add to [...] 98. 98. [183]Ding Ding Ding, another round of fresh links! « Adrian Zyzik's Weblog Says: [184]June 25th, 2009 at 6:39 am [...] go Beyond Relational Databases?Think Vitamin How to Create an Illustrative Web Design in Photoshop The blue and the green Bad Astronomy Discover Magazine In the Woods - Multi-level Menus with jQuery and CSS Text utilities Free Technology for [...] 99. 99. [185]The blue and the green < Respiro Rosso Says: [186]June 25th, 2009 at 6:49 am [...] - Discover Magazine [...] 100. 100. a Martin Says: [187]June 25th, 2009 at 7:11 am Seems to be the same illusion as dithering: [188]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dithering#Digital_photography_and _image_processing 101. 101. [189]SlamBay.com » Blog Archive » Blues and Greens Mind Trick Says: [190]June 25th, 2009 at 7:25 am [...] This picture shows the illusion. The orange and magenta lines make it seem as though there is also blue and green but in actuality, there is only green. To see the full illusion, click here. [...] 102. 102. Ian Michael Says: [191]June 25th, 2009 at 7:30 am Any art school student taking a proper color theory class will have learned to do this (often referred to as "one as two colors"). Unfortunately, I have taken such a class, so I don't get the joy of being hoodwinked any more. Another more challenging optical illusion using similar principles is to make two different colors look like one color. Color theory for the win. 103. 103. [192]coopermays Says: [193]June 25th, 2009 at 7:38 am Installed color tiles on kitchen counter with some of them- I thought, blue. When I placed what was a green mug on the tile, they were the same color. I told my family my new canister set will be green, everyone said it will clash with your colors. When the set was on the counter, we were surprised to see they matched, but were still blue and green. Thought again perhaps they are each shades of turquoise to explain it. Never understood it till now. Figured it had to be about context. 104. 104. [194]Froggy Says: [195]June 25th, 2009 at 7:47 am I see a sailboat! 105. 105. [196]Your eyes deceive you Says: [197]June 25th, 2009 at 8:05 am [...] A great optical illusion. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL. « Political science majors, seek help now [...] 106. 106. LINDSAY Says: [198]June 25th, 2009 at 8:05 am COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL 107. 107. [199]The blue and the green » lietzphoto blog-o-rama Says: [200]June 25th, 2009 at 8:12 am [...] Via: The blue and the green | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine. Posted under: art, fun, news/info [...] 108. 108. Stone Age Scientist Says: [201]June 25th, 2009 at 8:17 am Very true, Phil, as I have no Photoshop, I used the very simple MSPaint to isolate the distracting colors, and voila! [202]bluegreenzoom The resulting edges appear fuzzy, as can be expected from a very basic program that comes with Windows. I should have used the more powerful Gimp (a free software) but I find that a bit hard to manipulate through (a bit time-consuming). 109. 109. Xavier Says: [203]June 25th, 2009 at 8:18 am I don't see any blue in this picture at all, only green, orange, and magenta. This optical illusion must only work for those without any sort of color deficiency. I am RGB color blind and when I saw no optical illusion in something all other people were excited about, I was confused. Now, I am just a little disappointed because I won't be able to experience the wonder of this beautiful illusion! 110. 110. [204]Cool Color Optical Illusion : UsedWigs Says: [205]June 25th, 2009 at 8:21 am [...] Discover Magazine will tell us how this is possible. var addthis_pub = `usedwigs'; var addthis_language = `en';var addthis_options = `email, [...] 111. 111. [206]Votie Says: [207]June 25th, 2009 at 8:31 am searching the 72. Comment. Can't find it. Maybe counting is only illusion too? 112. 112. Andre Says: [208]June 25th, 2009 at 8:31 am If you scroll the first image up and down fast a magnetic field will be drawn. 113. 113. Gary Ansorge Says: [209]June 25th, 2009 at 9:05 am 108. Stone Age Scientist: Gee, so much high tech,,,I just covered the distracting bars with my fingers and observed the same thing,,, Cool illusion though. Gary 7 114. 114. Suzie Says: [210]June 25th, 2009 at 9:12 am "Incredibly, the green and the blue spirals are the same color." No they are not. And that's the crux of the illusion. The blue-green WITHIN the green and the blue spirals is the same color. But the green and the blue spirals themselves are not. As you said: The green spiral is blue-green and orange. The blue spiral is blue-green and pink. And it's the interaction of the blue-green with the pink and orange that produce the illusion. 115. 115. [211]Wieviel Farben seht ihr? | atomtigerblog | Lustige & witzige Fotos, Videos und Bilder Says: [212]June 25th, 2009 at 9:17 am [...] Vier? Falsch! ;) Klikkkk Grunwalski | 25. Juni 09 | awesome, weird Tags: blau und grün, optical illusion, optische täuschung, spirale, sprial [...] 116. 116. [213]michael Connors Says: [214]June 25th, 2009 at 9:22 am You should have asked an artist, the proper term for this is called simultaneous contrast. Most portrait paintings use grey to appear like blue because of the contrast next to the warmer skin tone. 117. 117. Joe Meils Says: [215]June 25th, 2009 at 9:24 am All I know is... now I have a headache. 118. 118. [216]El rgb es lo que tiene | Linkitsu! Says: [217]June 25th, 2009 at 9:27 am [...] colores ves en la imagen? ¿Seguro? [...] 119. 119. Stone Age Scientist Says: [218]June 25th, 2009 at 9:35 am No, Gary 7 @ #113, unfortunately, that method did not work for me. 120. 120. [219]Sarah Trachtenberg Says: [220]June 25th, 2009 at 9:46 am Wow! That is one of the best optical illusions I've seen. This just goes to show why we need skepticism, right? Our minds see patterns that don't exist, according to Michael Shermer. I once saw an awesome optical illusion online: a spirally thing that really did look like it rotated. Freaky. 121. 121. [221]Ripley's "Have You Heard?" Says: [222]June 25th, 2009 at 9:55 am Just because you saw it doesn't mean it's there Here's something neat from the Bad Astronomer. Take a look at this spiralling image. Psychedelic, eh? Assuming you're not color-blind, do you see those Blue and Green spirals? If you do, you really don't. There are only 3 co... 122. 122. Scven Says: [223]June 25th, 2009 at 10:00 am Yea, i did the same thing and the poster and they are diff colors. LRN2PHOTOSHOP 123. 123. [224]Cool Optical Illusion « Appeal To Authority Says: [225]June 25th, 2009 at 10:02 am [...] Bad Astronomy explains: [...] 124. 124. [226]Holy Balls. Says: [227]June 25th, 2009 at 10:52 am [...] Balls. Kinda makes my eyes hurt. The blue and the green | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine __________________ IF I WERE A WHALE I'D EAT [...] 125. 125. Jesse Says: [228]June 25th, 2009 at 10:54 am I'd like to point out that this doesn't work for hue blind people :P Those colors totally looked the same to me from the get-go. 126. 126. dart Says: [229]June 25th, 2009 at 10:56 am I, too, copied and opened the image in Photoshop and can confirm that there are only three colors in the entire image: magenta, orange, and the blue/green. I became curious if the spirals had any important effect on the illusion, and, surprisingly, they don't...so I don't know why this complex design was used. I created a "straightened out" version with horizontal stripes of the orange and magenta with vertical bars of the green/blue. The illusion holds up completely that way. The vertical bars alternate between looking green and blue. An earlier commenter was correct that art school students do color studies with the goal of creating the same illusion, and that the effect is called simultaneous contrast. I did many of those in art school. 127. 127. [230]Aaron Says: [231]June 25th, 2009 at 11:00 am The original belongs to [232]http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html and should be properly attributed to him. 128. 128. brntoki Says: [233]June 25th, 2009 at 11:16 am Funny how it's "the other guy" who could be making that big mistake and not YOU! 129. 129. [234]nuvo's status on Thursday, 25-Jun-09 17:17:35 UTC - Identi.ca Says: [235]June 25th, 2009 at 11:17 am [...] What you see it's not what you get [236]http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/24/the- blue-and-the-green/ [...] 130. 130. [237]Verde = Azul « Escribosikiero Says: [238]June 25th, 2009 at 11:19 am [...] en: [239]http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/24/the- blue-and-the-green/ Escrito en Ciencia. Etiquetas: Ilusiones Opticas. Leave a Comment [...] 131. 131. [240]Phillip Helbig Says: [241]June 25th, 2009 at 11:20 am We all know about after-images etc so illusions involving colour are interesting but expected. I really like this non-colour optical illusion: [242]http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/2009/the-break-of-t he-curveball/ 132. 132. poodle Says: [243]June 25th, 2009 at 11:31 am Lorax, your problem is the sample size your program is using. If it isn't set to 1px it will be averaging the sample from multiple colors, just as your brain is. 133. 133. [244]Cool Optical Illusion Says: [245]June 25th, 2009 at 11:33 am [...] The blue and the green | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine It's one of those that makes you say, "No [...] 134. 134. [246]Rod Says: [247]June 25th, 2009 at 11:34 am Funny, But for a color blind person (me) they both appear the same color which is very wierd. What no it isn't 135. 135. [248]IMAO » Blog Archive » Don't Trust Your Eyes Says: [249]June 25th, 2009 at 11:34 am [...] the blue and green spirals? No, you don't. You're perceiving the blue and green but they're both the same color. People like to think they're eyes are like video cameras, but things go through a bit of [...] 136. 136. [250]Amit Patel Says: [251]June 25th, 2009 at 11:39 am Most of the "blue outline" I am seeing is caused by the browser. The HTML on the page resizes the image to fit the article. The browser resizing blends adjacent colors. Green and purple blend into blue. The two colors that are supposed to look the same actually look slightly different because the browser's blending algorithm makes them different. There is a *small* amount of "blue outline" I get from viewing the image on an LCD. I can exaggerate this by turning my head right, which combines with the chromatic aberration from my glasses. I can make the blue outline disappear by turning my head right, which causes the chromatic aberration in the other direction, and they cancel each other out. If you look at the original size image (right click, with View Image), you'll get the version without adjacent pixels blended together, and the illusion remains, without any of the debate about blue outlines or whether the two colors are the same. If you then use the "zoom" functionality in your browser or operating system to try to get a better look at the blue outline, and the system blends pixels, you'll see the blue outline generated by zooming. On Mac, use System Preferences -> Universal Access -> Zoom Options -> Smooth images; turn this off to avoid blending. I don't know of a way to turn blending off for browser zooming. 137. 137. [252]Cuantos colores ven? Ilusion Optica | arturogoga Says: [253]June 25th, 2009 at 11:52 am [...] original de Discover Magazine Comparte / Envialo var skin = {}; skin['HEIGHT'] = `21'; skin['BUTTON_STYLE'] = `compact'; [...] 138. 138. [254]Scott Funkhouser Says: [255]June 25th, 2009 at 11:53 am bad Astronomer: "So the next time someone swears they saw Jesus, or a UFO, or a ghost, show them this picture. What you see in life is absolutely and provably not what you get." That conclusion is just as poorly motivated as believing in ghosts. The BA should have stated, "What you see in life is not **necessarily** a close facsimile of what you get." 139. 139. bleij Says: [256]June 25th, 2009 at 12:25 pm Quote: "What you see in life is absolutely and provably not what you get." With all due respect, this is a questionable conclusion to say the least. Quantum-mechanically speaking, there is required to have been some `collective perception' - and thus value - of the color green before we evolved from the oceans, let alone before we were able to digitally represent this particular shade as RGB 0/255/150... So in that respect, I could just as easily argue that RGB 0/255/150 is some digital illusion of a certain quantum state of `green'... Then there is the problem of at what level of zoom you're working... If you were to zoom out on the color combiation used above, you would see these colors disappear and blend to make place for a new one... You state it yourself in your article: "Like I said, incredible! For pedantry sake, the RGB colors in both spirals are 0, 255, 150. So they are mostly green with a solid splash of blue." The very fact that it's RGB 0/255/150 states exactly the same. This means that the green your cameras and software are "capturing faithfully", are actually the same idea as the image above... Of course, in this respect, all of reality is an illusion... 140. 140. [257]Verrëckt. « Grommel deLuxe Says: [258]June 25th, 2009 at 12:44 pm [...] Posted on June 25, 2009 by Grommel Hei ass eng vun deenen krassesten opteschen Illusiounen, déi ech gesinn hunn [...] 141. 141. [259]Para flipar en colores : Coherencia Parcial Says: [260]June 25th, 2009 at 12:55 pm [...] de nuevo a Phil Plait [discovermagazine.com] me he enterado de este efecto óptico que apareció en Buzz Hunt [...] 142. 142. Daniel Barkalow Says: [261]June 25th, 2009 at 12:56 pm If you take a blue-and-white striped object and a green-and-white striped object, and put the blue one under a magenta light, and the green one under an orange light, and the colors are adjusted such that exactly the same spectral distribution comes off of the colored parts of both objects, your eyes will still give you the perception of the spectral response of the two objects correctly (that is, in keeping with the measurements when both objects were under white light). The human eye and brain do this far better than any current artificial system (assuming, of course, that it can't simply put each object under the system's choice of illumination). And if you take a photograph of this setup, you can still pick out the (white-illuminated) colors of the original objects correctly, but Photoshop can't. And, of course, you can't pick out the colors of the ink on the paper correctly, because it conflicts with your other color perception. You can't turn off your brain's experience of this illusion for the simple reason that if you did, you wouldn't be able to see shadows as something separate from the coloration of the objects they fall on, and you'd be unable to make sense of the world around you. 143. 143. [262]Do Not Believe Your Eyes « Free Associations of a London Psychotherapist Says: [263]June 25th, 2009 at 12:56 pm [...] colour you are seeing by comparing the colour to the colours around it. The full explanation is here on Bad Astronomy. Yet more proof that none of us live in the real world, we live in the world we think we [...] 144. 144. Steve Says: [264]June 25th, 2009 at 12:59 pm Also, if you copy the image over to Photoshop or similar and grey-scale it, the `blue' spirals disappear completely, leaving only the `green'. 145. 145. Hoopz Says: [265]June 25th, 2009 at 1:08 pm "that zoomed image above is square, believe it or not" Are you seriously saying that it does not look square to you? Wow, some people's vision must be more frakked up than mine. Cos that seems like a perfect square to me... I imagine the diagonals: they are clearly at a nice 45 deg angle. 146. 146. Tom Allen Says: [266]June 25th, 2009 at 1:15 pm The motion illusions on Kitaoka's website are even more amazing. Everyone should go to his main index page and check them out. 147. 147. [267]The Culture Boy | Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have (CLICK ON THECULTUREBOY HEADER TO RETURN TO THE MAIN PAGE) Says: [268]June 25th, 2009 at 1:18 pm [...] FROM DISCOVER MAGAZINE, CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL SOURCE OF THIS ARTICLE Easy AdSenser by Unreal Categories: Culture Note - [...] 148. 148. Seth Says: [269]June 25th, 2009 at 1:22 pm Try this... Copy the pic into a photo editing program. Use the eyedropper to select the "blue" or the "green". Draw a thick line across the picture. Look at it zoomed all the way in and the colors ARE the same. Zoom back out and it appears as if there is yet a third "color" that does not match either of the first two. 149. 149. [270]Mike Riley Says: [271]June 25th, 2009 at 1:25 pm I think this is probably the most impressive illusion I've seen so far :) 150. 150. [272]Robert Huston Says: [273]June 25th, 2009 at 1:36 pm Come on, who doesn't know. Read some Josef Albers and you'll start to get the hang of color illusions. 151. 151. Aaron Says: [274]June 25th, 2009 at 1:53 pm Interaction of Color by Josef Albers. Pick it up. 152. 152. [275]Loganotron » The Blue and Green Says: [276]June 25th, 2009 at 1:54 pm [...] I saw this on my friend Amos' Twitter feed. You can find more explanation over at Discover's blog. [...] 153. 153. [277]Josh Says: [278]June 25th, 2009 at 2:37 pm Wow that is pretty cool. It's good that we have photoshop so we can check our answers too. And the curveball someone posted was insane. I've always been a fan of these optical illusions. Good job.. now my eyes hurt ;) 154. 154. [279]ddhr.org - Blue and green on pink Says: [280]June 25th, 2009 at 2:37 pm [...] Discover Magazine says, "our brain judges the color of an object by comparing it to surrounding colors." If you zoom in and cut out all the other colors in the picture, it's true, they're the same. This scares me, because I thought my brain was smarter than that. It turns out it can be easily tricked. (via Neatorama) [...] 155. 155. babis Says: [281]June 25th, 2009 at 2:46 pm This is exactly what Raster is based uppon to make huge posters seem like having milions of colors while only using the basic ones 156. 156. [282]Murmp - The blue and the green - Color Optical Illusion Says: [283]June 25th, 2009 at 2:50 pm [...] The blue and the green - Color Optical Illusion Submitted 3 seconds ago by sweeneytodd Tags: optical illusion! One of the best color optical illusions I have ever seen. [...] 157. 157. kp Says: [284]June 25th, 2009 at 2:50 pm meh, Think about, your television does the same thing. Get close enough and you will be able to see the different pixels, red, green, blue. 158. 158. [285]MacroHW » Blog Archive » Las espirales verde y azul... que en realidad son del mismo color Says: [286]June 25th, 2009 at 3:04 pm [...] palabras de Phil Plait de Bad Astronomy (que es donde lo ví) y que explicó cómo funciona... La razón por la que se ven [...] 159. 159. v.dog Says: [287]June 25th, 2009 at 3:13 pm You don't need an image editor to see the truth. If your browser has an image zoom extention, it's very cool to watch the bands seemingly change colour as you zoom in. Do it on the smaller image, tho' as you've got to zoom in pretty close for the illusion to break. 160. 160. [288]The blue and the green are the same color : clusterflock Says: [289]June 25th, 2009 at 3:28 pm [...] Plus, it is used to illustrate a nifty principle. [...] 161. 161. [290]Beck » The blue and the green Says: [291]June 25th, 2009 at 3:45 pm [...] [From The blue and the green | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine] [...] 162. 162. [292]Las espirales verde y azul... que en realidad son del mismo color | BlogUniverso Says: [293]June 25th, 2009 at 4:01 pm [...] palabras de Phil Plait de Bad Astronomy (que es donde lo ví) y que explicó cómo funciona... La razón por la que se ven [...] 163. 163. GMJH Says: [294]June 25th, 2009 at 4:28 pm I find it quite amusing after reading both the article and the 159 comments that there is no definitive simple statement saying how many colors there actualy really are in the image. In fact reading the comments, people still say there are 2, 3, or 4 which is it? 2? 164. 164. [295]Rhetology: the art and science of human discourse. Block1 is categorized as Resources and about Says: [296]June 25th, 2009 at 4:34 pm [...] Discovery Magazine explains: The reason they look different colors is because our brain judges the color of an object by comparing it to surrounding colors. In this case, the stripes are not continuous as they appear at first glance. The orange stripes don't go through the "blue" spiral, and the magenta ones don't go through the "green" one. Here's a zoom to make this more clear: [...] 165. 165. [297]» Optical Trip. Says: [298]June 25th, 2009 at 4:48 pm [...] See the green? And the blue? It's the same color. No, really. [...] 166. 166. [299]you cannot trust your eyes, so why trust your ears? - Head-Fi: Covering Headphones, Earphones and Portable Audio Says: [300]June 25th, 2009 at 4:58 pm [...] cannot trust your eyes, so why trust your ears? check out this optical illusion article: The blue and the green | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine read the article. if your eyes can be fooled, why not your ears? I never liked it when someone [...] 167. 167. Patrick H. Says: [301]June 25th, 2009 at 5:11 pm The spiral pattern has NOTHING to do with why these colors look off. They look different because of the bleeding effect of the interior stripe colors being different. BTW, there are three colors. One green, one orange and one pink. 168. 168. [302]Moova! News on the Move » Una de las mejores ilusiones ópticas que he visto Says: [303]June 25th, 2009 at 5:51 pm [...] Aunque usted no lo crea la espiral de color verde y azul que se ve en la imagen que acompaña este post, son del mismo color, de hecho es una de las mejores ilusiones ópticas que he visto. Y al igual que los Microsiervos, me he tenido que ir a Photoshop y usar el selector de color para asegurarme que había algún tipo de ilusión y no era algún engaño. Phil Plait de Bad Astronomy explica por qué sucede: [...] 169. 169. [304]QuePex.com » Blog Archive » Las espirales verde y azul... que en realidad son del mismo color Says: [305]June 25th, 2009 at 6:07 pm [...] palabras de Phil Plait de Bad Astronomy que explicó cómo funciona... "La razón por la que se ven como diferentes [...] 170. 170. MJ Says: [306]June 25th, 2009 at 6:18 pm Michael Jackson is DEAD! 06/25/09 171. 171. [307]» The blue and the green CosmicConservative: Rational Conservatism from the Rocky Mountains Says: [308]June 25th, 2009 at 6:32 pm [...] blue and the green Posted in June 25th, 2009 by CosmicConservative in Politics The blue and the green | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine You see embedded spirals, right, of green, pinkish-orange, and blue? Incredibly, the green and the [...] 172. 172. [309]Scepticismul nesimtit « Klewos Says: [310]June 25th, 2009 at 6:55 pm [...] Nu întotdeauna ceea ce vezi poate fi crezut prea [...] 173. 173. Semantic Nazi Says: [311]June 25th, 2009 at 7:00 pm Green? Blue? Both? Actually, its neither! What it is is a separate colour again called aquamarine or turquoise which is half-way between blue & green! ;-) Has anyone else thought of and tried colour printing out the original tricolour spiral design, sticking it to a bit of carboard and spinning it at different speeds to see what happens? I so want to do this experiment but my printer's dry of ink right now ... 174. 174. C. Charles Caruso Says: [312]June 25th, 2009 at 8:10 pm I'm not color-blind, but I do have a defect in the my optic color receptors-the frequencies for green are shifted for me. So I don't see blue and green, but I do see the optical illusion of pale lime green and aqua. I see two different shades of green in the top image, and the same two shades of green in the second image. A very pale lime green coming in second up at the bottom left, and second from the top at the upper right. The other "blue" (second from the top left and second from the bottom right) is what I would call an "aqua" green (much more green with just a slight tilt to blue). The close-in image has the same tints as the top image for me. (My color defect sometimes causes me to mistake the green of a stop light at night for a blue-white street light-until a yellow light comes on above the "street light" and then the red light atop that.) It is interesting however that even though the colors are identical, I see two different shades, as those who have normal color vision. 175. 175. [313]iyanski Says: [314]June 25th, 2009 at 8:20 pm geez, try colorzilla plugin for your firefox and compare the hex values, you'll get the truth. 176. 176. Milarepa Says: [315]June 25th, 2009 at 8:57 pm He's right, Micheal Jackson really IS dead... 177. 177. Brian Says: [316]June 25th, 2009 at 9:31 pm "So the next time someone swears they saw Jesus..." ...or that Krishna was blue? 178. 178. [317]El Mejor Efecto Optico del Mundo | Soportalo Says: [318]June 25th, 2009 at 10:54 pm [...] explicacion de Phil Plait de Bad Astronomy es La razón por la que se ven como diferentes colores es que nuestro cerebro [...] 179. 179. [319]Links for 6/25/2009 | Jason Clarke Says: [320]June 25th, 2009 at 11:01 pm [...] The blue and the green | Bad Astronomy | Discover MagazineThis is probably the best optical illusion involving colour that I've ever seen. At first glance, it's virtually impossible to convince yourself that the blue and the green in the image are in fact the same colour. [...] 180. 180. [321]Breakfast briefing: Copycats and copyright @ Technology News Says: [322]June 25th, 2009 at 11:15 pm [...] your mind with some optical illusions. No tricks this time, but just some stone cold classics: this mind-boggling colour illusion, and the spinning woman. Why not leave your best suggestions in the [...] 181. 181. [323]Kralizec Says: [324]June 25th, 2009 at 11:34 pm Iyanski said, "geez, try colorzilla plugin for your firefox and compare the hex values, you'll get the truth." I reply that the two colors, the third color seen in isolation, and the hex values seem to be parts or aspects of a complex truth. 182. 182. [325]BRIANSAAB.COM » Blog Archive » best illusion ever Says: [326]June 25th, 2009 at 11:51 pm [...] To learn the secret, check out the article: [327]http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/24/the- blue-and-the-green/ [...] 183. 183. Ted Says: [328]June 26th, 2009 at 12:58 am My god, it's full of stars..... 184. 184. [329]La espiral azul y verde que en verdad son el mismo color « Curso informática libre Says: [330]June 26th, 2009 at 2:47 am [...] palabras de Phil Plait de Bad Astronomy y que explicó cómo funciona... La razón por la que se ven como diferentes [...] 185. 185. [331]Friday Link Love 6/26 | Brad's Reader Says: [332]June 26th, 2009 at 5:02 am [...] The blue and the green (cool optical illusion) [...] 186. 186. [333]Una de las mejores ilusiones ópticas que he visto Says: [334]June 26th, 2009 at 5:16 am [...] Y al igual que los Microsiervos, me he tenido que ir a Photoshop y usar el selector de color para asegurarme que había algún tipo de ilusión y no era algún engaño. Phil Plait de Bad Astronomy explica por qué sucede: [...] 187. 187. [335]Iluzie optica | DaLinku - Linkuri pentru oameni ca noi Says: [336]June 26th, 2009 at 5:26 am [...] principale succesiv.Daca nu ma credeti aruncati o privire la varianta marita, la acest link [...] 188. 188. [337]kirabug's idea files » Blog Archive » The blue and the green Says: [338]June 26th, 2009 at 7:29 am [...] The blue and the green. [...] 189. 189. [339]Okay, one more trivial thing « ACCUMULATING PERIPHERALS Says: [340]June 26th, 2009 at 7:47 am [...] whether her error has a genetic or cultural source.) And then today I saw this optical illusion on Phil Plait's Discover Magazine blog, via [...] 190. 190. [341]The Digest. 06.26.09. at C-MONSTER.net Says: [342]June 26th, 2009 at 8:03 am [...] Duuuuuuuude. (AFC.) [...] 191. 191. [343]An Optical Illusion You'll Refuse to Believe | InfoAddict Says: [344]June 26th, 2009 at 8:27 am [...] From Discover Magazine: The reason they look different colors is because our brain judges the color of an object by comparing it to surrounding colors. In this case, the stripes are not continuous as they appear at first glance. The orange stripes don't go through the "blue" spiral, and the magenta ones don't go through the "green" one. [...] 192. 192. [345]erDiache.Com "Gente Que No Tiene Na'Ke Hacer." | Rap Local | Vivimos Reggaeton | Noticias | Farandula | Coro | Disparates » Blog Archive » Asombrosa ilusión óptica de dos colores que son el mismo color Says: [346]June 26th, 2009 at 8:50 am [...] Fuente de la imagen [...] 193. 193. [347]Optical Illusion of the Day « IMO | A peripatetic trip through the internet Says: [348]June 26th, 2009 at 9:39 am [...] Discover via GeekPress ] { no comment } :| { Tags: illusions, neuroscience, tricks [...] 194. 194. [349]An Optical Illusion You'll Refuse to Believe | Daily Debrief Says: [350]June 26th, 2009 at 9:42 am [...] if I told you that both spirals are green? There is no blue in this image. Impossible, you say? From Discover Magazine: The reason they look different colors is because our brain judges the color of an object by [...] 195. 195. [351]An Optical Illusion You'll Refuse to Believe | Daily Debrief Says: [352]June 26th, 2009 at 9:42 am [...] From Discover Magazine: The reason they look different colors is because our brain judges the color of an object by comparing it to surrounding colors. In this case, the stripes are not continuous as they appear at first glance. The orange stripes don't go through the "blue" spiral, and the magenta ones don't go through the "green" one. [...] 196. 196. [353]An Optical Illusion You'll Refuse to Believe | Daily Debrief Says: [354]June 26th, 2009 at 9:43 am [...] From Discover Magazine: The reason they look different colors is because our brain judges the color of an object by comparing it to surrounding colors. In this case, the stripes are not continuous as they appear at first glance. The orange stripes don't go through the "blue" spiral, and the magenta ones don't go through the "green" one. This is why I tell people over and over again: you cannot trust what you see even with your own eyes. Your eyes are not cameras faithfully taking pictures of absolute truth of all that surrounds you. They have filters, and your brain has to interpret the jangled mess it gets fed. Colors are not what they appear, shapes are not what they appear. [...] 197. 197. [355]An Optical Illusion You'll Refuse to Believe | Daily Debrief Says: [356]June 26th, 2009 at 9:44 am [...] From Discover Magazine: The reason they look different colors is because our brain judges the color of an object by comparing it to surrounding colors. In this case, the stripes are not continuous as they appear at first glance. The orange stripes don't go through the "blue" spiral, and the magenta ones don't go through the "green" one. [...] 198. 198. Christ Tao Says: [357]June 26th, 2009 at 11:04 am One simple one to verify is to put your fingers over the blue spiral. Narrow the gap between your fingers to block out the magenta. As your fingesr get closer, you will notice that the blue is getting a bit greener. Really interesting. 199. 199. [358]Who's ready for an optical illusion? « Gynomite! Says: [359]June 26th, 2009 at 11:06 am [...] Amazing huh? Thanks again Bad Astronomy! [...] 200. 200. [360]Color Illusion | Skippy Records Says: [361]June 26th, 2009 at 11:28 am [...] Tip: Bad Astronomy, TED Blog, James Cascio, (...nerds run in [...] 201. 201. [362]Regruntled.com » Blog Archive » Color illusion Says: [363]June 26th, 2009 at 11:34 am [...] Bad Astronomy discusses the color illusion above. The green and blue spirals are actually the same color! I've overlaid a square of this color in the lower right to make this clear. [...] 202. 202. [364]dfxblog » The death of Michael Jackson Says: [365]June 26th, 2009 at 12:12 pm [...] that the flood of info that comes out in the coming months does not tarnish his life achievements. Toxicology report and all. Also, I would have liked to adopt [...] 203. 203. [366]Thinkologist: The Dudley Lynch Blog » Blog Archive » One More Time: Another Vivid Illustration that What There Is to Is, Isn't What We Thought It Is Says: [367]June 26th, 2009 at 1:21 pm [...] on his Buzzhunt blog. Then Richard Wiseman posted it on his blog. Which is where Phil Plait, the Bad Astronomy blogger in Discover Magazine, found it. Then Jamais Cascio found it and posted it on his Open the [...] 204. 204. [368]Weekend links Says: [369]June 26th, 2009 at 2:10 pm [...] As Gerry put it, "our brains don't work." Amazing optical illusion. [...] 205. 205. [370]Optical Illusion « The Big Think Says: [371]June 26th, 2009 at 2:25 pm [...] This will blow your mind. Cool! [...] 206. 206. Calypte Says: [372]June 26th, 2009 at 3:40 pm Well, I'm also red-green colorblind, and I don't see the alleged "optical illusion." I don't see green anywhere in these spirals. 207. 207. Matriarch Says: [373]June 26th, 2009 at 5:23 pm Most days I would find this incredibly interesting and fun and would post links like crazy. Today, I'm just refusing to believe anything but what my eyes see. This is a brain-stem sorta day if there ever was one. 208. 208. [374]fluffy Says: [375]June 26th, 2009 at 5:23 pm The thing is that the brain is just mixing colors together, because it doesn't deal with colors in a pixel-precise manner. If you take the image and do a Gaussian blur on it, very similar perceived colors come about: [ba-colorspirals-blurred.jpg] The illusion isn't terribly different from how halftoning or dithering works. 209. 209. Bob Says: [376]June 26th, 2009 at 8:27 pm That's really weird, if I stare intently long enough, the colors do look the same. It starts to change color after a few seconds. 210. 210. [377]How Many Colors Do You See? « elisfanclub Says: [378]June 26th, 2009 at 9:39 pm [...] which led him (and indirectly me) toward the Pringles Banner Ad I tweeted about, and then toward a story about a color optical illusion. Usually I'm not a big fan of color illusions, being colorblind and all. But this one was [...] 211. 211. [379]GeekStrike : All things Tech and Games, by Geeks for You! Says: [380]June 26th, 2009 at 11:26 pm [...] Well, believe or not, the blue and green spirals are actually of the same colour. This is because the brain perceives the colour of an objects with respect to its surroundings. By zooming into the picture, you would realise that the orange stripe is not continuous. As a result, the orange stripes produce a "blue" spiral, and the magenta stripes produce a "green" spiral. More @ Discover Magazine. [...] 212. 212. Colin Day Says: [381]June 27th, 2009 at 1:31 am I would say that the brain processes signals rather than interprets them. As for the reliability of our brains, they are physically quite reliable, as most of us agree that there was a visual discrepancy. 213. 213. [382]Why am I still talking when there's linking to do? « Welcome to Spinksville! Says: [383]June 27th, 2009 at 1:31 am [...] up, a mind-boggling colour based optical illusion. (I'm thinking this won't work too well if you are colour [...] 214. 214. BBB Says: [384]June 27th, 2009 at 2:00 am "So the next time someone swears they saw Jesus, or a UFO, or a ghost, show them this picture. What you see in life is absolutely and provably not what you get." Uh, this kinda proves that the next time someone claims they saw a green Jesus he might really be a blue one. Unless you want to read waaaayyyy to much into this. 215. 215. [385]LangweileDich.net - We blog to entertain you! » Blog Archive » Blau oder Grün? Says: [386]June 27th, 2009 at 3:56 am [...] (via) [...] 216. 216. [387]ESPIRALES « la casa del tiosain Says: [388]June 27th, 2009 at 11:19 am [...] AQUI lo explican. En pitinglis. [...] 217. 217. karl Says: [389]June 27th, 2009 at 3:21 pm This is a zoomed photo of the MONITOR ITSELF - now you can see the *actual pixels* that are being displayed. It's quite clear that there's not "just 3 colors." [390]non illusion 218. 218. [391]Weekend Links -- davidgagne.net Says: [392]June 27th, 2009 at 3:45 pm [...] your eyes is just silly. This optical illusion should help prove [...] 219. 219. [393]A prop Says: [394]June 27th, 2009 at 5:00 pm [...] aunque cueste creerlo, el color azul es el mismo que el verde (lo chequeé con photoshop). En Discover está explicado y [...] 220. 220. [395]Para relajarse un poco - La Mejor Ilusión Optica | El Navegante de la Tecnología Says: [396]June 27th, 2009 at 9:32 pm [...] (aunque igual la usemos para comprobar la veracidad de ciertas cosas). "Tomada de Discover Magazineblogs, encontramos una explicación rápida: La razón por la que se ven como diferentes colores es que [...] 221. 221. [397]General Enyjoment » Green or Blue? Says: [398]June 28th, 2009 at 2:47 am [...] The blue and the green | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine. [...] 222. 222. harry Says: [399]June 28th, 2009 at 3:03 am here is an interest fact to this discussion.... Actually many native cultures around the world don't distinguish betweeblue and green in their languages, they use the same word for both colors. Also often lush green forested mountains are called the blue mountains because they can appear as such in the right conditions, or think about the seas different colours at different days everything from green to grey......... actually a quite old thing then.... 223. 223. [400]Biru = Hijau | mantulmantul.com Says: [401]June 28th, 2009 at 6:42 am [...] Untuk penjelasan lebih lanjut dan bukti bahwa kedua warna itu ternyata sama, silahkan baca artikel ini. [...] 224. 224. [402]Color spirals « Zeitgeist in a Petiole Says: [403]June 28th, 2009 at 10:20 am [...] Color spirals By jeffbowers This one's been all over the net these past few days.. While the picture appears to be a pink background with alternating green and blue spirals, in reality the "blue" and the "green" are exactly the same color. Discover Magazine has the best explanation. [...] 225. 225. [404]Why am I still talking when there's linking to do? | MMOFire Says: [405]June 28th, 2009 at 10:29 am [...] up, a mind-boggling colour based optical illusion. (I'm thinking this won't work too well if you are colour [...] 226. 226. Marc-Yves Tumin Says: [406]June 28th, 2009 at 11:30 am Nice anti-Christian swipe near the end, marring the piece beyond redemption and leaving one with no illusions about the petty viciousness of the scientist. Marc-Yves Tumin Manhattan 227. 227. [407]Phil Plait Says: [408]June 28th, 2009 at 12:49 pm Marc-Yves Rumin (#226), nice try at trying to foment a religious fervor there, but what I wrote was clearly not anti-Christian. It was a statement about people who claim to see Jesus everywhere, when it's just as clearly a case of your brain finding patterns in random noise. Search this blog for the word pareidolia. And you might want to find out a little bit more about the author -- me -- before making such grand statements. It only reveals your ignorance. 228. 228. [409]PuurZaam.nl » Blog Archive » Bijzondere Spiraal! Says: [410]June 29th, 2009 at 12:54 am [...] Discover magazine via Akiyoshi [...] 229. 229. Dean G Says: [411]June 29th, 2009 at 7:21 am Well said Phil. 230. 230. [412]Never trust your eyes, well... at least not always... | /foo/blog Says: [413]June 29th, 2009 at 8:04 am [...] The blue and the green | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine. [...] 231. 231. adam Says: [414]June 29th, 2009 at 9:04 am move your browser window around and look at that picture and you'll see some more optical movement illusions. now, explain that all you visual perception gurus. 232. 232. [415]Mr. Radio Says: [416]June 29th, 2009 at 10:26 am Holy crap. I think this picture just shows me that I can't trust my brain or my eyes...which sucks. 233. 233. [417]O iluzie fabuloasa Says: [418]June 29th, 2009 at 12:19 pm [...] via [...] 234. 234. LD Says: [419]June 29th, 2009 at 9:44 pm I cut out a paper mask to show only the colour of the spiral, they are two different colours. Nice trick, it just doesn't work. 235. 235. [420]Gale Franey Says: [421]June 30th, 2009 at 1:47 am I was skeptical at first, but it's very easy to test it. Simply open in Photoshop CS4, then zoom in to 500%, then use the eye dropper to sample the color that appears to be green. It is hexidecimal #00ff96. Then sample the color that appears to be blue. It is hexidecimal #00ff96. Both are exactly the same colors. For those people who mention seeing blue halos, there are none. I can zoom in as far as 3200% (yes, more than 3 thousand percent), and each individual pixel is clearly visible. p.s. There is one solid black pixel at the very centre of the image. The optical illusion is fantastic. I teach Photoshop and will show this one to my students tomorrow. Cheers! 236. 236. [422]Ilusión cromática « Third World Geek Says: [423]June 30th, 2009 at 6:10 am [...] info: Discover Magazine Filed under: Misc No [...] 237. 237. Mike Caprio Says: [424]June 30th, 2009 at 7:05 am How many different color combinations can produce this kind of effect - or is it just a matter of shape and color blending in the brain? Is it more pronounced when reds and greens are involved? It seems like it would be relatively easy to algorithmically create many versions of slightly different patterns and variations of color to see if there are greater or lesser effects with varying combinations. 238. 238. [425]My delicious.com bookmarks for June 25th through June 30th ~ This is ZX81.org.uk Says: [426]June 30th, 2009 at 9:04 am [...] The blue and the green - "Your eyes are not cameras faithfully taking pictures of absolute truth of all that surrounds you. They have filters, and your brain has to interpret the jangled mess it gets fed." A very neat optical illusion. Share: [...] 239. 239. Heather Says: [427]June 30th, 2009 at 9:32 am fantastic :) but the comment at the end... you ever think that maybe it's things like that prove why most people CAN"T see jesus, ghosts, or ufo's? Don't be so skeptical, as you said, not everything is as it seems. 240. 240. [428]Bandits No More » WYSIWYG? Says: [429]June 30th, 2009 at 9:40 am [...] Check out the picture at Bad Astronomy. [...] 241. 241. [430]fluffy Says: [431]June 30th, 2009 at 11:10 am @237: Since it's a paletted .gif, all it takes is a paint program which allows you to modify the palette (which is most of them). The effect definitely occurs with lots of different combinations. 242. 242. Josie Says: [432]June 30th, 2009 at 11:44 am When you print the image, then scan it back in as a gif file, it turns into an image of an academic on a piece of toast. Just because our senses play tricks on us doesn't mean that we need to walk around never actiing and never believing anything. Sometimes, you just need to believe what you see and enjoy the colors. 243. 243. [433]Your Eyes Mislead You « Color for Bead Artists Says: [434]June 30th, 2009 at 12:03 pm [...] The blue and the green [...] 244. 244. ME Says: [435]June 30th, 2009 at 1:48 pm While I take Phil at his word that no anti-religionism was meant at the end (I suspect he was referring to things like seeing the Virgin Mary in potato chips among other things), as T_U_T points out, there is a very big generalization at the end. The brains ability to process color in close proximity is a bit different from the ability to explain unusual visual phenomenon in general. This relates to a pet peeve of mine, how people apply Heisenburg's Uncertainty Principle to pretty much anything they want to, ignoring that it is in actuality a very specific principle aimed at explaining the difficulty of measure atomic/subatomic particles. As someone with a BA in Art, the phenomenon on display does interest me, but the close up provided by Karl raises questions as well. Having tried the Photoshop eyedropper test (same color was the answer to that one) I have to wonder if Karl's photo was saved in a format that altered the color (JPG saved at less than 24 bit or worse a GIF which will use adaptive color). Theoretically though, that should change the colors to the same alternative color, so that doesn't explain it completely. 245. 245. [436]FirstAdopter.com » Market Journal - June 30, 2009 Says: [437]June 30th, 2009 at 2:20 pm [...] a jerk to Jim Rogers Link -Twitter news filtering for stocks Link -Blue and Green optical illusion Link -We spent $1 trillion and tons of blood to free Iraq for China to get the oil. Great! Link -Corn [...] 246. 246. [438]Harvey Solomon Says: [439]June 30th, 2009 at 2:22 pm Thanks Sam, I really enjoy these things. You really need to look at them. Gramps 247. 247. [440]Paz Says: [441]June 30th, 2009 at 2:43 pm This is an impressive optical illusion, however it is actually fairly obvious. If I show you a purple coloured square and a yellow coloured square, they would still be the same colours. Because all colours are made up of different parts of red, green and blue light. Therefor everything you see on this site, even the text and the background is actually the "same colour", namely red, green and blue (as you rightly pointed out when giving us the formula of the green spiral 0, 255, 150). Nothing else is happening here. Your brain mixes the greenish colour (0, 255, 150) of the spiral with the orange and magenta spirals respectively. Just like it does with every single colour on this page and in fact everywhere around you, just on a larger scale. Inspect your screen with a magnifying glass and you see what I mean. The illusion is so successful because it manages to convince you that the spirals are something like `pure' colours. 248. 248. kevin Says: [442]June 30th, 2009 at 5:35 pm The theory behind the illusion is sound, but some people's monitors don't support it properly. 249. 249. [443]Jim Lynn Says: [444]June 30th, 2009 at 5:42 pm Off topic but... Did you really make a `Tomorrow People' reference in the title of this blog? 250. 250. [445]Glenn Picher Says: [446]June 30th, 2009 at 11:33 pm Uh... the explanation of what's going on here is hogwash. The same effect occurs with a simple checkerboard pattern with the same colors. It's got nothing to do with your brain being fooled into believing anything about what's in front or back or how lines continue or don't. The fundamental principle here is that when you put any two colors together in an alternating pattern they tend to be perceived as a solid color field that is between the two colors in the pattern. This is nothing more amazing here than what you see if you hold a magnifying glass up to a television screen or a piece of paper printed with two inks. I have a straightforward demonstration of why the explanation is nonsense here: [447]http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2024171&id=1534102452 251. 251. [448]links for 2009-07-01 « Amy G. Dala Says: [449]July 1st, 2009 at 8:04 am [...] The blue and the green | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine (tags: cool optical_illusions) [...] 252. 252. [450]kenwells.com Says: [451]July 1st, 2009 at 8:20 am Another reason to use a trained artist who understands that corporate colors can chage in the viewer's eye, no matter how precise the rgb colors are ... 253. 253. [452]Cap and trade (again) - Page 3 Says: [453]July 1st, 2009 at 12:21 pm [...] Originally Posted by excon Hello again, Steve: What bad stuff DOES it do? excon PS> I'm colorblind. It certainly doesn't help people breathe well. Steve P.S. Then why were you talking about us looking at colored walls? If you're colorblind you'd have no reason to look at me funny if I said the green wall was purple, how would you know? By the way, the green and blue are the same exact color. Things aren't always as they appear. [...] 254. 254. Candace Says: [454]July 1st, 2009 at 3:55 pm In reference to drawing false conclusions based on what you see, don't you think it's interesting how we see the world around us, and we come to the conclusion that the world began with a "Big Bang" or "on the backs of crystals" or "was seeded onto our planet by some Intelligent Life on another planet" and then it evolved and became more and more complex (even though this works against the Law of Entropy) and that is how we got here today? 255. 255. Jason G Says: [455]July 1st, 2009 at 7:17 pm I've spent quite a bit of time inside and outside of Paintshop verifying that the illusion is true. Yes, the initial image does have different colored artifacts surrounding each spiral when you zoom the image up 4 or 5 hundred percent. Even when you remove then all so that only 4 colors exist (purple and orange stripes) and (green and blue spirals), the illusion is still there. Finally I created the images shown in the link below. It shows 2 black "cover" blocks side by side. There is a tiny sliver of space between the two boxes. In the first image I placed a slice from that spiral. It is the "blue" stripe surrounded by purple on either side. In the next image I moved the 2 black "cover" blocks closer together so that all the purple was covered by the 2 black "cover" blocks on either side of the center blue slice. When I did that, suddenly the "blue" slice turned "green"! Hence by using only 2 PURE colors (purple and green) we're able to still demonstrate the effect. Amazing stuff. Greatest illusion I've ever seen. Hopefully somebody will clean up the original image so that all stray anti-aliased colors around the borders are eliminated. [456]http://i44.tinypic.com/2dl3qlv.jpg 256. 256. [457]The blue and the green « SBaird Design and Color Consultation Says: [458]July 2nd, 2009 at 7:54 am [...] The blue and the green Jump to Comments discover magazine [...] 257. 257. [459]How Many Colors in This Image? | Flour Power Says: [460]July 2nd, 2009 at 12:00 pm [...] If you said 4, guess again. [...] 258. 258. Jennifer K. Says: [461]July 2nd, 2009 at 8:07 pm Quote: "Where the green hits the magenta it looks bluer to me, and where the blue hits the orange it looks greener. Amazing." I noticed a different effect in the magnified image. It seems that the area of the `blue' spiral which the eyes are focussing on seem more green than the surrounding areas of the same spiral, which appear to be more blue. This becomes more even more noticeable if I focus on a different area so that the colours shift. Anyone else notice this? Anyway it's pretty difficult to amaze me, but this optical illusion is way cool! :) 259. 259. Jason G Says: [462]July 2nd, 2009 at 10:32 pm Here's something else amazing. I REVERSED all the colors using Paintshop so that the spirals became magenta and orange as shown in the following image .. [463]http://i44.tinypic.com/14kfw9h.png Needless to say, if you play around with that image you'll see that both spirals are now magenta. You don't really need a paint program to verify all this. Just use your browser to zoom the page up about 500%. The more you zoom in, the closer the colors become. 260. 260. [464]Optical Illusions: Seeing isn't believing | Life In Yosemite Says: [465]July 2nd, 2009 at 11:43 pm [...] take when interpreting the world around us. For the lazy, who won't click through to the wonderful article in Discover Magazine, the greenish spirals are actually the same color as the bluish spirals. What changes is the color [...] 261. 261. Leah Says: [466]July 3rd, 2009 at 11:47 pm Our eyes are faithful cameras (when they are fully functional and in adequate light!). Our brains are not faithful interpreters :P That's why one person might see a dragon in the clouds, but another person might see an elephant. Their eyes are processing exactly the same image, but their brains are interpreting them differently. Despite the nay-sayers, the above illusion is definitely correct. My first thought upon seeing the image and reading "these are the same colours" (on a different site) was "What complete and utter BS. There's no way those are the same." Then I stared at it a bit longer, back and forth between the two coloured arms. Then I had a look at the zoomed image. Definitely the same colour. Trippy. Waving around a pic taken of your monitor is lame, firstly because monitors are different, and cameras don't take accurate photos of monitors, so combine those two inaccuracies and you're bound for problems. 262. 262. [467]Links for July 1st through July 4th - eclecticism Says: [468]July 4th, 2009 at 3:01 pm [...] The Blue and the Green: "You see embedded spirals, right, of green, pinkish-orange, and blue? Incredibly, the green and the blue spirals are the same color. At first I thought Richard was pulling our collective legs, being a trickster of high magnitude. So I loaded the image in Photoshop and examined the two spirals. Like I said, incredible! For pedantry sake, the RGB colors in both spirals are 0, 255, 150. So they are mostly green with a solid splash of blue." [...] 263. 263. Vince Clorso Says: [469]July 5th, 2009 at 1:09 am So! Your basically saying that since we all see the green and blue(ex-colorblind). Then, nothing we see can be truth? However; you should now utterly believe anyone who professed to see an UFO or Jesus. Since, if you were there you would have saw the same. LOL. What do you see? A couple of wavy lines. Wrong anwser. BUZZ. 264. 264. Jason G Says: [470]July 5th, 2009 at 1:07 pm Nothing we see is truth? The short answer is "YES". That great big blue thing we see up there every day with the birds and clouds in it? If you could get a little closer to it and observe it's pixels , you'd see that it's nothing more than a mixture of magenta and green enhanced with a subtle shade of mauve. Most traffic accidents in fact are caused by folks incorrectly thinking the light is green when in fact it's an off-shade of orange and banana nut yellow. There's more but I don't feel like making it up right now 265. 265. Richard Kennaway Says: [471]July 6th, 2009 at 2:35 am "Your eyes ... have filters, and your brain has to interpret the jangled mess it gets fed." Not really. The filters are part of the interpretation. The eyes have their imperfections as cameras, but nearly all optical illusions work by tricking the brain's image processing algorithms. I don't know exactly what part of the process is being gamed by the spirals, but for some other examples, computing colour constancy leaves you subject to illusions like [472]these, and a lot of the traditional optical illusions result from computing size constancy. 266. 266. [473]My eyes are cheating « O L I V E R H O . C A Says: [474]July 6th, 2009 at 6:16 am [...] This optical illusion freaks me out a little. Apparently, the "green" and "blue" spirals in the picture are exactly the same colour. [...] 267. 267. [475]Blue and green optical illusion | dv8-designs Says: [476]July 6th, 2009 at 3:46 pm [...] and green optical illusion July 6th, 2009 admin Leave a comment Go to comments This amazing optical illusion was everywhere last week, but if you didn't see it, you should check it [...] 268. 268. [477]Blue and green optical illusion | dv8-designs Says: [478]July 6th, 2009 at 3:46 pm [...] and green optical illusion July 6th, 2009 admin Leave a comment Go to comments This amazing optical illusion was everywhere last week, but if you didn't see it, you should check it out. Tags: [...] 269. 269. [479]Blue and green optical illusion | Blog Avenue Says: [480]July 6th, 2009 at 4:11 pm [...] This amazing optical illusion was everywhere last week, but if you didn't see it, you should check it out. Tags: opticalillusions Posted in Uncategorized. RSS. Trackback. [...] 270. 270. [481]Don't Believe Your Eyes | God Awful Things Says: [482]July 6th, 2009 at 5:30 pm [...] I have evidence of what I do mean, thanks for favorite blog BadAstronomy [...] 271. 271. [483]Sweet Optical Illusion | randzig Says: [484]July 6th, 2009 at 5:46 pm [...] Look at it here. [...] 272. 272. [485]putting the j in jjosh » Blog Archive » we make up reality as we go along Says: [486]July 6th, 2009 at 5:49 pm [...] Check out the original post to read more about how this is possible, but be prepared to still not believe it! We can't believe our eyes! Psychedelic to the max(ine)!! [...] 273. 273. [487]The Monday brief: "Where the heck have I been?" edition » JakeBouma.com Says: [488]July 6th, 2009 at 8:59 pm [...] that blew my mind: This optical illusion made me feel like I'm [...] 274. 274. Mark C Says: [489]July 6th, 2009 at 10:01 pm **** In reference to drawing false conclusions based on what you see, don't you think it's interesting how we see the world around us, and we come to the conclusion that the world began with a "Big Bang" or "on the backs of crystals" or "was seeded onto our planet by some Intelligent Life on another planet" and then it evolved and became more and more complex (even though this works against the Law of Entropy) and that is how we got here today? *** I guess if I'd never taken a course in thermodynamics, and had no idea what the "Law of Entropy" (presumably you mean the second law of thermodynamics) says or the very well-defined limits to the situations to which is applies are, then I might agree with you. As it happens, I have had had more than one course in thermodynamics, though, and can confidently state that you have no idea what you're talking about. 275. 275. [490]Optican illusion: the blue and the green « Mostly Marketing Says: [491]July 7th, 2009 at 12:15 am [...] Via: Discover Magazine [...] 276. 276. [492]Seeing is... well, seeing... « (Roughly) Daily Says: [493]July 7th, 2009 at 2:06 am [...] is... well, seeing... Via Discover's Bad Astronomy blog, one of the more amazing optical illusions that your correspondent has ever [...] 277. 277. [494]the blue and the green spirals are the same colour « this teacher's life Says: [495]July 7th, 2009 at 3:14 am [...] Check it out here [...] 278. 278. [496]the green and the blue spirals are the same colour « this teacher's life Says: [497]July 7th, 2009 at 3:18 am [...] Check it out here [...] 279. 279. [498]What You See is Not What You Get Says: [499]July 7th, 2009 at 4:32 am [...] here. Key takeaway: your eyes deceive you, as your mind has to parse the information they record. [...] 280. 280. [500][links] Link salad yawns into another Tuesday | jlake.com Says: [501]July 7th, 2009 at 7:15 am [...] The blue and the green -- Awesome color spiral illusion... (Thanks to willyumtx.) [...] 281. 281. [502]links for 2009-07-07 : Eggplantia5 Says: [503]July 7th, 2009 at 7:33 am [...] The blue and the green | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine (tags: illusion psychology opticalillusion images perception interesting neuroscience) [...] 282. 282. [504]Blue and green optical illusion | dv8-designs Says: [505]July 7th, 2009 at 7:51 am [...] and green optical illusion July 7th, 2009 admin Leave a comment Go to comments This amazing optical illusion was everywhere last week, but if you didn't see it, you should check it out. Tags: [...] 283. 283. [506]The Idée Blog » Blog Archive » Expanding our TinEye index Says: [507]July 7th, 2009 at 12:41 pm [...] expansion of our image index also means you will be seeing increasingly current content in your search results from blogs and other online [...] 284. 284. 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