Are you guys clicking on the links at the bottom? I mean they explain the whole thing.
I have to agree - no matter how much of the screen I cover up, I can’t make the A and B squares the same color. I can tell the letter B is a slightly lighter shade than the letter A, but I can’t make my brain believe A and B are the same colors.
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That’s because the illusion is so good you pretty much have to cover everything on your screen except for the inside of the 2 squares. Go ahead and grab some tape and paper and go to town. You can do it a lot faster in photoshop, but as I mentioned, it was so spooky I wasn’t totally convinced until I went low tech.
The link at the bottom of the page that says “proof”.
The effect is so astounding that even with the strips there, I see the color as getting lighter “under” the “shadow”.
That one actually was my desktop background once… for all of about a minute and a half.