Visual Illusions

I put the heart illusion into paint and those colors do not appear to be the same when I swatch them.

The hearts are definitely not the same color. I just checked in Photoshop.

Yeah, massive jpg compression issues have ruined the hearts illusion
Oh well, the dots are sort of close enough to tell that they were probably the same colour before compression.

Wow, well that totally sucks. I thought the heart illusion was one of the best I have seen, too bad it’s bogus. Now they are all called into question, but I won’t bother to pull up photoshop for every one.

Other things:

#5 — doesn’t work for me at all. Does anyone see a “red” ring on that one? It just looks like different shades of blue to me.

#15 — doesn’t work for me at all.

#16 — doesn’t really work for me, I can kind of see the neon lines after I’m told to visualize them there…

#25 — I can say the colors or read the words without any confusion whatsoever (first try). I wonder how much of these visual anomalies is a matter of conditioning and not actually fundamental to the way the brain processes images.

#26 — SOOOO not worth it. It is kind of impressive that the illusion lasts for a long time, on the other hand minutes later I still have lines and stripes embedded into my vision wherever I look. This effect is pretty subtle, not dramatic at all (for me at least), so don’t expect anything great from putting in the six minutes to stare at that, it will just hurt your eyes, and the only impressive thing is that the effect lasts for a while.