The winning one, the phantom queen, it's not what I would call an optical illusion.
It's more of a magic trick, like when they cut a person in a box in two.
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#22Since the site is struggling, here's the videos in top ten order: https://youtu.be/i4p_x0S5bmQ https://youtu.be/TXk-Oc35oN4 https://youtu.be/bVbPmFpspXc https://youtu.be/q_JqmwwbtpA https://youtu.be/yC5kHTsmXqQ https://youtu.be/zWr63p3gsM0 https://youtu.be/LFvOzXUMXwM https://youtu.be/jb29X2SrgDM https://youtu.be/CePZ6vwYOYQ https://youtu.be/a7LUNyMvGqU
I don't get the fourth one, the one with the different colored crocs. I put a color meter on the images and the mystery pair is definitely not the same color as the pink pair.
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#23Some of these are pretty cool but I always feel like the ones that depend on the camera being in a fixed perspective aren't nearly as cool.
Some of them actually work quite well in real life. Even when looking with two eyes (thus giving your brain information about depth) and from a non-perfect angle. I've had exhibitions with these in the physical world, and no one can avoid seeing the illusion, even after picking up the objects and seeing the secret. The brain is stupid!
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You need to make a distinction between color of the shoe (under normal lighting conditions) and pixel values of the shoe in the photograph. The shoe is pink under normal lighting conditions, but the pixel values are green-gray in the photograph, where the lighting has been manipulated. So, if you were to use a color-dropper tool on the photograph, you would get green-gray values for those pixels. But some people are…
I'm still not convinced. They said the answer is pink. But...it wasn't pink, even to their own admission. A pink shoe, when placed under pure-green lighting is no longer pink: at this point we're out of illusion territory and into lighting trick / semantics territory. If they'd have said the answer is green-gray, then fine, this would be an illusion for those people who incorrectly thought the shoes are pink, but the…
The picture is gray, but the actual shoes are pink, but bathed in green light. Some people sometimes can mentally remove the green lighting.
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#25Since the site is struggling, here's the videos in top ten order: https://youtu.be/i4p_x0S5bmQ https://youtu.be/TXk-Oc35oN4 https://youtu.be/bVbPmFpspXc https://youtu.be/q_JqmwwbtpA https://youtu.be/yC5kHTsmXqQ https://youtu.be/zWr63p3gsM0 https://youtu.be/LFvOzXUMXwM https://youtu.be/jb29X2SrgDM https://youtu.be/CePZ6vwYOYQ https://youtu.be/a7LUNyMvGqU
> https://youtu.be/jb29X2SrgDM
Expected Kokichi Sugihara to be represented as always, not disappointed. I will have to try and replicate this one as well.
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#26The crocs illusion is just plain wrong. It says "the correct answer is ". They then contradict themselves by saying it's green-gray. It's green-gray. Am I crazy? Any else's thoughts?
I wasn't too impressed with this one, either. In my mind, this illusion is much more straightforward demo of a similar effect (color perception being relative to surrounding colors): https://www.illusionsindex.org/ir/checkershadow
Yeah, this one is a true illusion: they're actually the same color, unlike the shoe example.
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#27Since the site is struggling, here's the videos in top ten order: https://youtu.be/i4p_x0S5bmQ https://youtu.be/TXk-Oc35oN4 https://youtu.be/bVbPmFpspXc https://youtu.be/q_JqmwwbtpA https://youtu.be/yC5kHTsmXqQ https://youtu.be/zWr63p3gsM0 https://youtu.be/LFvOzXUMXwM https://youtu.be/jb29X2SrgDM https://youtu.be/CePZ6vwYOYQ https://youtu.be/a7LUNyMvGqU
Not a fan of illusions that only work from 1 camera angle. But the others are great.
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#28Since the site is struggling, here's the videos in top ten order: https://youtu.be/i4p_x0S5bmQ https://youtu.be/TXk-Oc35oN4 https://youtu.be/bVbPmFpspXc https://youtu.be/q_JqmwwbtpA https://youtu.be/yC5kHTsmXqQ https://youtu.be/zWr63p3gsM0 https://youtu.be/LFvOzXUMXwM https://youtu.be/jb29X2SrgDM https://youtu.be/CePZ6vwYOYQ https://youtu.be/a7LUNyMvGqU
I don't get the fourth one, the one with the different colored crocs. I put a color meter on the images and the mystery pair is definitely not the same color as the pink pair.
it’s not the same in the photo, the lighting changes the actual color. If you put a red object under green light or vice versa, it will physically appear grey. But it doesn’t really work as an illusion in a digital video.
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I don't get the fourth one, the one with the different colored crocs. I put a color meter on the images and the mystery pair is definitely not the same color as the pink pair.
it’s not the same in the photo, the lighting changes the actual color. If you put a red object under green light or vice versa, it will physically appear grey. But it doesn’t really work as an illusion in a digital video.
Well, yeah, but that's hardly news. What makes this qualify as an illusion-of-the-year?
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I'm still not convinced. They said the answer is pink. But...it wasn't pink, even to their own admission. A pink shoe, when placed under pure-green lighting is no longer pink: at this point we're out of illusion territory and into lighting trick / semantics territory. If they'd have said the answer is green-gray, then fine, this would be an illusion for those people who incorrectly thought the shoes are pink, but the…
The picture is gray, but the actual shoes are pink, but bathed in green light. Some people sometimes can mentally remove the green lighting.
To do this properly, then, they should use video instead of stills.
Have a nice white background. White socks, pink shoes. Slowly move a green spotlight across the scene.