Tag Archive for 'psychology'

clear as black and white…right?

Chess Illusion

The image above probably looks very normal - a set of everyday chess pieces (without pawns). White pieces on top covered by black clouds, and black pieces at the bottom covered by white clouds. If they don’t look like chess pieces, try clicking on the picture to enlarge it - my friend thought they were teeth when he saw it on my msn display pic!

So, if we are imaginative, and assume the chess pieces are real, it would make sense that we can use them and play a normal game of chess…right? Well, not quite - because the chess pieces are identical. They are the same - pixel for pixel. If you don’t believe me ‘cut and paste’ the chess pieces and they will magically “change colour”. Even if you believe me you can give it a go, quite mind blowing if you ask me!

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shoe print illusion

Was going to post this up last week, but then saw the free penguin/tux and I just had to post that first :) Anyway, this is the first of hopefully many cool optical illusions that I will post up. I love optical illusions, and I’m going to try and post up “rare” illusions on my blog - so stay tuned!

In my opinion, this illusion is extra cool because nothing was done deliberately to get the illusion effect. The photo was actually taken by Marty, and every now and then it appears on her laptop slideshow screensaver (everytime it appears I point at it and go psycho :) )

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