Crazy color optical illusion
Posted by staff / September 13, 2011
Would you believe it if someone said the blue and green spirals are the actually the same color?
Believe it or not, it’s true, and involves the color surrounding the stripes affecting what we see.
As Jesus Diaz explained at Gizmodo:
Each eye has six to seven million cones, which are concentrated in a central yellow spot known as the macula (I recently got mine lasered to fix some leaking blood vessels). These cones measure color in different wavelengths, overlapping in some of them. Our brain then compares those signals in an antagonistic manner, measuring differences in wavelengths between them. When some colors are combined, the brain can’t process the info from the cones correctly and we simply get confused.
Crazy, huh? Mastering this explanation could open a whole new field of excuses when it comes to why it appears that outfit doesn’t match…
If blue and green are the same color, what color is it then? Isn’t it amazing how colors blend and the output is so incredible.