Best optical illusion ever?

[AndrewParr]

I hadn't seen this optical illusion before today. It's amazing! What do you think?

It's called the checker shadow illusion, and it was made by Edward Adelson of MIT in 1995. Can you tell what the illusion is? The squares labeled A and B are the exact same colour and shade. If you don't believe it, open the picture using Microsoft Paint and move the two squares side by side. I did. Mind blown.

According to the website I saw this on, they "appear to be different based on their proximity to dark tiles and square B’s position within the shadow of the green cylinder."

http://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/blog/ ... ions-work/

[AndrewParr]

Got a better optical illusion? Post it!

[Lucie]

Wow, unbelievable, I took a piece of paper and cut two holes, so I could only see the 2 squares, and yes A & B are the same !

[AFKAN]

I'll see that and raise you...



Go HERE download the PDF, print it out then try it

It's fantastic

[halfbake69]

AFKAN .........wow just did it and once your brain beleive it's not concave it follows you around sooooo good .... I love it
I Will definately print one bigger !!!!

I already Saw that in Youtube but didn't beleive it was real now i do

amazing

EDIT: my little 2 years old girl was freaked by it and now she looks at it everytime she pass by .... So funny

[a-maze-ing]

Print one bigger you say? Beat this:

(Keep watching patiently until1:10, drop jaw at 1:40 even after you see how it works!)

www.wimp.com/amazingillusion/

[Lucie]

Oh, I have one of these somewhere in my house, bought it a long time ago and the illusion never seemed to work, now I think I must have folded it wrongly.
I will try to find it, must be somewhere among my puzzles, mmmm in a box somewhere.........

[BBloke]

So cool and awesome. I've gotta try it.

Wow... very cool. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq6HK5gFlcQ

and a quick shot of my bobble head spiderman!

[a-maze-ing]

I see the dragons and I raise you...
First an optical illusion, then a mental illusion...


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Google the rest for yourself, there are sooooo many out there!

[AndrewParr]

Wow! That is crazy super high resolution printing. The Rubik's cube looked amazing!

Fun fact: my spell check wanted the above to be 'Dubois cube.'