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The average person most often believes that his brain it’s not so easy to deceive, and of course it will be mistaken. It turns out it’s very easy to do. If you take a closer look at the following snapshot, you will understand what could be the matter. Web users do not can decide exactly what photo they see: color or black and white.
In fact, everything is very simple. Norwegian programmer Oyvind The spike as an experiment applied to a black and white photograph color grid, why it seems colored. Why does a man see color photograph needs to be sorted out.
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This photo Kolos published back in 2011, putting on him colored stripes. Later, the photo gained popularity thanks to Reddit social networks, in which there was a heated discussion about colors in this photo. Many wanted to understand: really the image appears colored due to the grid applied. There were even those who does not see any illusion in the picture. Not only that, others said that they don’t see any color grid at all.
According to expert Stanislav Rzhevsky, our brain at the moment looking at the picture does not pay attention to its details, which are colored lines. On closer inspection of the photograph grid elements are clearly expressed relative to the image, and illusions are not noticeably. If you remove the photograph from yourself and defocus vision, then the image and the grid become one, and the picture It will appear fully colored.
The Norwegian tried to put dots and lines on the image instead of the grid (photos below), thereby showing that instead of the grid you can try posting other items as well.
A photo from open sources
A photo from open sources
Interestingly, this tireless experimenter Kolos went further and repeated the experiment with a moving image, creating video illusion in which the black and white image is in movement.
Andrey Vetrov
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