This mind-boggling optical illusion is going viral for tricking your eyes
- Publish date
- Tuesday, 30 Jul 2019, 2:57PM
We all love a good optical illusion ... but this latest photo has left our minds truly boggled!
The snap - which has gone viral after being shared on social media - features a group of school girls smiling while getting photographed with a tortoise, and at first glance, it looks like a regular photo.
But all is not as it seems.
Can you spot what the illusion is?
Photo / Twitter
If you see the girls all clad in different coloured T-shirts, including blue, yellow, red and green, you're not alone.
But it turns out that the photo is actually black and white!
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While you take another look, allow us to explain ...
The photo, which has been retweeted 12,500 times, is lined with colours in a grid format which allows your brain to "predict" the reality of the photo.
This is a black and white photograph. Only the lines have colour.
— Lionel Page (@page_eco) July 27, 2019
What you “see” is what your 🧠 predicts the reality to be, given the imperfect information it gets. pic.twitter.com/gwttlcC2Zw
Seriously, how crazy is that?!
Essentially, your brain is filling in the blanks and making the whole image seem as though it is a full-colour photo, even though it is not.
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