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"Deceptive Colors
The outrageous juxtaposition of colors in the image below makes it hard to believe that these spirals are ALL same light-green color; there are no light blue areas - as the enlarged section clearly shows"
Yeah, I smelled a rat on this one, so I DID check it out in PS. Due to jpg compression and artifacts, the purple is corrupting the color in the "green" areas and they actually ARE light blue (the same thing that happens in your eye I guess if the photo were higher resolution. In the enlarged part, the corruption is less, making for the "amazing" difference. Use the eye dropper, the "green" areas next to the purple are #5CD3CF and the "green" areas next to the orange are #04F09C- if you don't know hex, the first 2 values are reds, the 2nd 2 values are greens and the 3rd 2 values are blue, with a 16 digit differential (0-F). You can see that the purple/green is more blue and less green (D3CF) than the orange/green (F09C). It probably works ok with a high resolution, but your current example is really misleading and false.
May 8, 2014, 3:04:09 PM
Posted to Mind-Blowing Optical Illusions, Part 6