Your Eyes Play Tricks on You

Optical Illusion

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Dec 21, 2007 "Share your voice on Yahoo! websites. Start Here."

This is called complimentary colors. You stare at a negative image for a moment. The image is "burnt" into your retina and when the picture is swapped to a black and white image, you see the image as being color.

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  • Antellion1/16/2008

    Wrong, the colours are complementary yes (from stare picture to original), but the phenomenon is called retinal fatigue.

  • J P Whickson1/5/2008

    So Cooooooool. I thought that you were putting it in color and then slowly changing it to black and white. They all worked great. I must have Naiive eyes, tricked easily.

  • T.H.Pankey1/5/2008

    I'm here via the first article thread in the forum. Worked for me on the first one, but not the next two. Guess, it's because I knew what to expect on the next two. interesting, though.

  • A.M. Morgan1/4/2008

    I only saw the picture in color for a little while maybe it's because I blinked. :-)

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