Comments on: Do you trust your eyes? http://blog.chipx86.com/2006/05/21/do-you-trust-your-eyes/ Various stuff from some guy. Thu, 03 May 2012 12:39:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: HPReg http://blog.chipx86.com/2006/05/21/do-you-trust-your-eyes/#comment-667 Tue, 23 May 2006 04:46:01 +0000 http://www.chipx86.com/blog/?p=175#comment-667 I think it is based on complementary colors: they “taint” your retina (persistence of vision) by showing you see the “negative” on the image first so your retina adapts and tends to equalize all areas of the image, then you see the B&W version of the positive image, and for a while your brain continues to equalize and you see the positive image in color. Very nice. It reminds me of another illusion, which I believe relies on the same principle:

http://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/zanzoe.html

And another one that I cannot find right now, with rotating purple dots that appear green (the negative of purple) after a while.

This page is the best source I know for AWESOME illusions:
http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html

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