Illusion: black and white photograph into a colored mesh

The average person often believes that his brain is not so easily fooled, and of course mistaken. Turns out it's very easy to do. If you closely look at the following picture, you will understand what may be the case. Netizens can't really decide what picture they see: color or black and white.

It is actually very simple. Norwegian programmer øyvind Kolas as an experiment, put on a black and white photograph of a colored grid, which makes it look colored. Why a person sees a photograph of color need to understand.

The picture Kolos was published in 2011, causing him colored stripes. Later, the photo has gained popularity thanks to the social network Reddit, which started the debates about the flowers in this photograph. Many wanted to understand: do the color seems due to the applied mesh. There were even those who do not see in the picture no illusion. Moreover, others said that he did not see any color of the grid.

According to the expert Rzhev Stanislaus, our brain at the time of scrutiny of the picture does not pay attention to its details, which are colored lines. On close examination of pictures of mesh elements is clearly expressed in relation to the image, and illusion is not noticeable. If you alienate yourself from a photo and defocus your eyes, the image and grid are one and the seem is completely colored.

The Norwegian tried instead of mesh to put on the dots and lines, thus showing that instead of a grid you can try to place other elements.

Interestingly, this tireless experimenter spike went ahead and repeated the experiment with moving images, creating a video illusion on which black-and-white image is in motion.

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»