Cool illusion

[Lorne]

Here's a really cool illusion I found today:

http://www-bcs.mit.edu/people/adelson/checkershadow_illusion.html

[eric_darling]

I didn't even believe it until I loaded it into Photoshop and checked the values myself. Very cool. Try painting in the gaps with that same value gray, and watch the illusion disappear.

[Lorne]

Heh, Brett did that too. Mark actually refused to believe the whole thing until Brett showed him the two colors (A and B) side by side. /ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif

[Corey]

Yeah that's a great one, I love it! Just goes to show you how much of reality we may be misperceiving in our everyday lives, a great metaphor about the human condition.

I can't blame Mark, let's just say I woudn't have bet my paycheque on this one way or the other...

Now I'm thinking it would be too cool to paint this so I might. It will be a lot of work to do it accurately...

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software (http://www.indigorose.com)