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Chris K
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Someone posted and optical illusion a few days ago so I thought I would post my favourites:-

Scroll past these ones:


Look at the dot in the middle and move your head back and forth.

^^^ They look better on paper ^^^

This one you will not believe: square A & B are the same colour


This one will give you a headache:


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Chris K
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This one's quite good:



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hexGEAR
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one word, wow! but if you wanna get all mathematical about the last one, it's kinda obvious where the hole comes from the hypotenuse of the 2nd triangle is higher than the 1st, taking strips from each square along it could compensate for the hole

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First two: Not bad!

Third one: Dosen't work for me.

Fourth one: No, it's NOT the same color, and I'm going to prove it in just a second.

Fifth one: WTF?

--Mouse: Famous (Avatarless) Fighting Furball

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@Hexgear
Can you put that in a code box, please?

See if anyone can work it out for themselves.

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Ian T
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Fifth one makes sense now.

Fourth one is the best optical illusion I've ever seen. Just brilliant. I'll normally accept that it's my eyes being tricked, not often I'm forced to go and check because it's so unreal.

The dot one is pretty neat.

--Mouse: Famous (Avatarless) Fighting Furball

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Chris K
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I put it in paint to try and prove it wrong.

I failed.

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Divide-- funny, I just checked in Paint Shop Pro

--Mouse: Famous (Avatarless) Fighting Furball

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I like the third one.

Does it really not work for you guys?

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With the fourth one, open it in paint, select a piece of square B and drag it up to square A.
There's a moment when your eye 'realises' and makes them the same colour. Weird.

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Ian T
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Yes, I just showed my family.

You know what's REALLY weird? Copy the whole B square with some borders of the other squares around it, and move it over to the A square. The tiles around it still make it look dark, but you can't deny that it's the same color as square A.

--Mouse: Famous (Avatarless) Fighting Furball

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D'oh! The third one does work; I was slanting my head to the side instead of moving backwards and forwards. Pretty Durn Cool

--Mouse: Famous (Avatarless) Fighting Furball

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Chris K
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This one's similar but no where near as good:


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....that fourth one... very weird... but ya, i put B next to A, and they're infact the same color....

You did what? For who?! For how many jellybeans?!?

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they all work, i'm particularly freaked by the top 3, it all has to do with "out of focus", you can only focus on one area!

as for the 5th, the areas don't even match up, assuming grids are 1 unit * 1 unit

- triangle 1 area summing shapes is 32
- triangle 2 area summing shapes is 32
- however, the area of triangle 1 as a whole = 32.5

theres 0.5 missing somewhere, strips from grids along then hypotenuse compensate for the remaining 0.5 creating a full box.

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thems are pretty cool!!


GO TO THE ETERNAL DESTINY FORUMS!!! http://forums.eternaldestinyonline.com
Do it now!!!
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The "whole triangles" aren't triangles.
One dips in along the hypoteneus, one pokes out a bit.

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exactly, thats why the areas don't match up

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This explains it (its a bit more unimpressive like this)



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Wow number 4 really has shocked me

"Help! My keyboard is stuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk"

Mercenaries in Space demo @ http://www.davidtattersall.me.uk
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hmm, very kewl

but that coloured squares one is VERY freaky, it's scary to be honest. I even tried it in ms paint/ paint shop pro/ photoshop/ fireworks, lol very strange


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Chris K
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Does anyone know any really good optical illusions?
I paticularly like the ones that move.

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I had to open the 3rd one in adobe to see if the color values were the same, they were -- now I have a headache from all of this...



-RUST-
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Posted: 5th Dec 2003 00:27 Edited at: 5th Dec 2003 00:28
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Just testing my new sig image.


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\/ \/ \/ \/ \/ It doesn't work as well like this


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Quote: "This one you will not believe: square A & B are the same colour"


I think I have this figured out! He says square A and B; What if its a trick and it means square A and LETTER B!


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No.

They are the same colour.

Check it in paint.


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They are exactly the same colour there is no trick, just your eyes tricking you.
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These are pretty cool:

http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/mot_mib/index.html
http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/mot_spoke-illusion/index.html

This one looks like a 3D volcano (a cone with the top inwards):
http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/mot_kde/index.html


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This one RULES:

It looks like the grey bar in the middle fades darker but it is actually a constant color. Don't believe me? Open it in paint, Grap the colour of the bar and draw you own bar next to it!



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Perhaps I'm doing something wrong, but the A B one, those two are in fact two different colors. I opened it up in Paint and checked.

Actually, it is a bit disingeniuous to suggest that they are "two" different colors. There are multiple colors there and quite a few colors are shared. But there are colors in both the A and the B that are not shared between the two. If you zoom in and check you can see for yourself.
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we're talking about the majority of the squares. sure, a few pixels at the edges might be different, but the whole point is that they look completely different.

Always cool, Farmboy Kharnor was seen walking around with a long string of toilet paper stuck to his foot.
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@Neophyte I think that your download must be corrupt because A/B are a single colour, and the colour is the same all over.
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It's because somebody saved it as a jpg.
They are the same colour in this one.



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@Divide By Zero

"Neophyte, copy the B square and paste it somewhere into the picture..then move it around the picture with your mouse.. you'll see it is the same colour as the A square."

Okay, I'll give it a try. Yeah, A JPEG corrupted it I think.
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DO NOT CHEAT FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS, It's Funny!!!





Quick Eye Exam...



This will blow your mind...!



Just do it -- don't cheat!!!!!!!!!!!!



Try this its actually quite good.



But don't cheat!



Count the number of F's in the following text:



FINISHED FILES ARE THE

RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC

STUDY COMBINED WITH THE

EXPERIENCE OF YEARS







Managed it?



Scroll down only after you have counted them!























OK?





How many?















Three?



















Wrong, there are six -- no joke!







Read again!









FINISHED FILES ARE THE

RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC

STUDY COMBINED WITH THE

EXPERIENCE OF YEARS







The reasoning is further down...

























The brain cannot process the word "OF".





Incredible or what?


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@the_winch

I tried your picture and they are still not the same. Zoom in on the B. In the center of the | of the B you can see much darker pixels than are anywhere on the A. I used the color picker tool in the gimp to get the percise values and I varified it. The color I am talking about is R 49 G 49 B 49. You won't find that color anywhere in A. Also, there is a R 51 G 51 B 51 and a R 65 G 65 B 65 in there as well as a whole slew of other colors that don't appear in the A. Really. Use the zoom tool and see for your self.
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@Pincho

Wow! I didn't see any of those OFs!
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Lol, I couldn't see any of them, and I still couldn't see them after I read the explenation! It took quite a while before I could see them.
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I saw them after you explained them right away. I also felt like a bit of a dolt for missing them. I went really slowly too to make sure I didn't miss any. Do you know why we can't see them?
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Hooooly crap, that's pretty cool Pincho !

My brain's going to murder me for playing all these tricks on it one day.

--Mouse: Famous (Avatarless) Fighting Furball

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We just learn to skip things out. I doubt if it works with really young kids.
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I'm trying to make on of those illusions for a 20 liner but I've come to a problem.

How do you get a decimal into an array?

They are always rounded to the nearest whole number.
I can't be bothered to use STR() & VAL().
Is there another way?


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dim arrayname1() as float
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?

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I'm working in DBC.
It doesn't seem to work.


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I don't have DBC so I can't help you there. Maybe if you posted in the DBC boards they could help.
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They're too slow to respond and as it was inspired by this thread it thought it would be OK.

In the DBC help it says Arrays can hold integers, real numbers or strings.


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Don't worry, I figured it out.

I needed dot#(100,4) instead of dot(100,4)


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I saw 3 thrice then I saw the 6 after I was told what to see.
Cool Pincho.

This just shows how susceptable we all are to illusions.

Like the 9-11 hoax.

Three buildings symetrically collapsing?
Pentagon damage consistant with a missile (certainly not a jet airliner that no one saw or heard coming in)?
Bush blocking the investigations.
Faked phone calls from the 'hijacked' planes?
and so on.....
http://www.911review.org/

The more you see, the more you know.
The more you know, the more you see.
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