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Illusion: good. Finding it necessary to use it as a springboard for Life Lesson(s): .
So I prefer the original (scroll alllll the way down), which is minus some color artifacts from Wordpress and on a page with many other related optical illusions.
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quote:Originally posted by rivka: Illusion: good. Finding it necessary to use it as a springboard for Life Lesson(s): .
So I prefer the original (scroll alllll the way down), which is minus some color artifacts from Wordpress and on a page with many other related optical illusions.
A large amount of Phil Plait's blog's content is devoted to covering skeptical topics.
So a lot of the point in him even bringing up the optical illusion was to point out the unreliability of human perception.
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I wasn't comparing his blog post to other blog posts (of his or anyone's). I don't care why he brought it up. And Paul could easily have linked to the original, had the optical illusion been his primary interest.
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Is it unusual that I can tell they are the same color? I think I would be fooled if I wasn't concentrating, but if you focus on the image and put it into the background, you can see that it is the same.
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quote:Originally posted by Orincoro: Is it unusual that I can tell they are the same color? I think I would be fooled if I wasn't concentrating, but if you focus on the image and put it into the background, you can see that it is the same.
I kind of see that it's the same color (or at least very close colors) in the magnified image and in the broader part of the spiral. The closer I get to the center of the spiral though, the more I see a difference between the two colors.
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I am utterly and completely unable to see that they're the same color, even in the magnified image.
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