{"id":2430,"date":"2008-06-02T16:07:07","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T16:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/06\/02\/look-at-the-following-image\/"},"modified":"2008-06-02T16:07:07","modified_gmt":"2008-06-02T16:07:07","slug":"look-at-the-following-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/02\/look-at-the-following-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Unbelievable Magic Illusion Thingie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look at the following image.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-5d2f6f8a03a66222da7aa414d1ee81dd-illusion.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-5d2f6f8a03a66222da7aa414d1ee81dd-illusion.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Look in particular at squares A and B.  A appears to be dark grey, B appears to be white or whitish. But in fact, they are the same exact color.Don&#8217; t believe it?  Me neither!  Or at least, I didn&#8217;t until I went ahead and deleted most everything that is not A or B from this picture.  When you do that, you get this:<!--more--><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-59515f7053692a20eb88cab511975e6f-illusion_aha.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-59515f7053692a20eb88cab511975e6f-illusion_aha.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Remarkable!This is from the Scientific American web site, where there are a number of illusions in a new piece on the subject of Neuroscience of Illusion.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?id=the-neuroscience-of-illusion\">Here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look at the following image.Look in particular at squares A and B. A appears to be dark grey, B appears to be white or whitish. But in fact, they are the same exact color.Don&#8217; t believe it? Me neither! Or at least, I didn&#8217;t until I went ahead and deleted most everything that is not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/02\/look-at-the-following-image\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unbelievable Magic Illusion Thingie<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[96],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-Dc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}