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  1. 22-Sep-2008 #1
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    Great optical illusion

    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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  2. 22-Sep-2008 #2
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    I didn't believe it until I put my fingers around the A and the B so that all I could see was the letter and the gray immediately around it. Sure enough it is the same shade. It is neat how our brains process the A as darker than be due to the relative difference in shading in the surrounding blocks.
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    I saw this some time ago and copied the picture so I could use photoshop to sample both sections and see that there was NO difference...pretty cool!!
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    Wait ... ... I don't get it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MinionZombie View Post
    Wait ... ... I don't get it.
    I'm glad that I'm not the only one....
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    I have tried covering up both images and don't see the difference either...

    Bassman, MZ...I think we're being had!!!

    "Men choose as their prophets those who tell them that their hopes are true." --Lord Dunsany
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    I put it into photoshop and deleted all squares but those two. and indeed, they are the same!
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    Yeah, B is blatantly a different colour square to A, all I see is that the font colour of each letter corresponds to the box of the other box ... if that makes sense.

    At least there's three of us, I was worried someone might have called me a numpty.

    We demand proof!
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  9. 22-Sep-2008 #9
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    Yup, they are the same colour. Like Kaos and Ned suggested, you have to remove everything around the two squares in question to see it.
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  10. 22-Sep-2008 #10
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    Quote Originally Posted by MinionZombie View Post
    Yeah, B is blatantly a different colour square to A, all I see is that the font colour of each letter corresponds to the box of the other box ... if that makes sense.

    At least there's three of us, I was worried someone might have called me a numpty.

    We demand proof!
    LOL! They ARE the same colour

    Put them in Photo shop and use the pick up ink tool, you'll see they are the same RGB (colour).
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    I'm about to start burning people at the stake. I can't validate these specious claims right now with my work comp...

    "Men choose as their prophets those who tell them that their hopes are true." --Lord Dunsany
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    Ugh, after going to all the trouble of blocking off all outside sources beyond A and B, yeah, they're the same ... well, A might look a SMIDGE darker, but it was a palava to block the other blocks out without any proper software beyond MS Paint (not on my rig which has other software).
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    They got to MZ, as well...

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    Quote Originally Posted by MinionZombie View Post
    Ugh, after going to all the trouble of blocking off all outside sources beyond A and B, yeah, they're the same ... well, A might look a SMIDGE darker, but it was a palava to block the other blocks out without any proper software beyond MS Paint (not on my rig which has other software).
    Not a smidge, or any if about it... They are absolutely 100% the same colour
    Last edited by Neil; 22-Sep-2008 at 07:58 PM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
    -Carl Sagan
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  15. 22-Sep-2008 #15
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    Here's the proof.
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