Gregg Attleson is a fan of BuzzFeed, which led him (and indirectly me) toward the Pringles Banner Ad I tweeted about, and then toward a story about a color optical illusion. Usually I’m not a big fan of color illusions, being colorblind and all. But this one was different:
How many colors do you see?
Don’t scroll down all the way. Take a second to study the image.
I studied the image very well before I answered. I made sure that I wasn’t being fooled. There are 4 colors. Wrong. Only three. Seriously. If you’re on a Mac right now, bust out your trusty DigitalColor Meter and prove it to yourself (or just check out the details on the original post). The illusion works even if you’re colorblind, which was really cool to me.
But the really amazing part came when I clicked through to the original site where that image came from: Akiyoshi’s illusion pages. Click that link and take a minute to poke around. Don’t worry, I’ll be right here when you get back.
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It was fun, wasn’t it?
Now, I know these are just silly color illusions, but that website (although not the best looking in the world) has to have thousands of illusions. It’s unreal. It feels like I could never look at all of them even I looked at 20 a day for the rest of my life. Crazy.
