Friday, May 16, 2014

Chess Pieces Illusion

One set of white chess pieces and the other black. The difference is easy to see. Right? Well believe it or not, only the background surrounding the two set of pieces is different. The pieces themselves are identical. Yep, that's right. They are exactly the same shades of white and gray.



This illusion was created by Barton L. Anderson and Jonathan Winawer and published in Nature, 434 in 2005, Image segmentation and lightness.

Here is a nifty video which allows you to see that they are in fact the same.

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