Do These Color Illusions Trick Your Eyes?

(instrumental music) - Cut, cut, cut, cut! Who forgot to pay for the apple? This is a black and white film. And Charlie, keep it down, it's a silent movie. (crowd murmuring) - Don't let these

illusions

fool

your

eyes

. These are

color

illusions

. (upbeat music) Well, I have two adorable penguins here. One is gray and white and the other is

color

inverted, but I throw a small iceberg into the scene. Now I want you to take a look at their bellies and tell me what color belly looks darker to them. In fact, you would be surprised to find out that they are exactly the same, both bellies.

And let me demonstrate it to you by showing you in a viewer, they are both the exact same gray color. And this is because

your

brain takes into account the same color in different lighting circumstances. Now let's move on to a more colorful illusion. So for the next one, I want to take this photo right here and create a giant magical mural on the wall behind me. And we'll do it using the vibrant colors of Cannon's Pixma printer. And they are our sponsor for today's video. I have a little

trick

to help speed up production. Alright, buddy, get to work.

And I'll have the help of two of my teammates here. So let's find Keyshawn and Nick. Let's get to work. (bright, happy music) Whoa! Well. That was a lot more work than I thought it would be. But the mural was spectacular, hey! We have two seagulls that you can see here. We have a purple seagull and an orange seagull. But what if I told you that they are exactly the same color? What if I also told you that there is a third seagull hidden in this mural? It's right here in the center, right. So if I move this up, it seems to match this seagull orange color, we go down on the mural.

It looks like it's changing color to purple, but actually that's because on this seagull we have orange and a little gradient of purple. And then it changes the appearance of the color depending on the background it's on. Very good, huh! Well, fly out of this illusion into the next one. (fast movement) Alright, we have three flavors of donuts in front of me. I have white vanilla, rose, strawberry, and brown chocolate, but you may have already realized that these flavors may not be what they seem. we have white vanilla, which is actually maple. Now let's reveal the brown chocolate; actually, it's also a maple donut.

But this third donut is really a surprise, the pink strawberry is real. Oh, that's maple too. Would you look at that? So we have three identical donuts and this illusion is created primarily by this foreground object, which is one color. While the background object also influences. What's also interesting about color is that it can alter your mental perception of flavor. Strawberry so pink. I really shouldn't, but I'm going to do it. So for this next illusion, I have a regular traffic light and this will demonstrate how important it is to see color in context. I have a green, blue, and red overlay, and this is what I want you to do.

I want you to look at all the colors of the traffic lights and tell me if you see any gray lights, count them and comment below how many you are guessing. And now I'm going to reveal. (soft music) So you can see the three gray traffic lights there, but what's also fascinating is that the light that's supposed to be yellow is actually green. This light is supposed to be red and is actually violet. This one is supposed to be yellow, but it's orange. So it's pretty crazy how your mind uses context to see color. And if I open up the color wheel here, blue is a complementary color to yellow.

So your mind naturally fills this gray, colorless piece to be yellow. I want to show you for our next illusion a really sweet negative color

trick

. So let me reverse this. (soft music) The interesting thing about your vision is that when you look at an image long enough, you start to see what is called an afterimage. And it's like a ghostly image of what you're looking at. So what I want you to do to experience this next illusion is to stare at the center point, and you're going to stare at the center point for about 15 seconds.

You'll want to make sure your video is full screen for this part. So stare at this marker in the center of the image and try not to blink. Okay, so you're looking, don't get distracted and I'm going to count down. I'm going to count down from five and I want to get to one. I'm in an instant and the image is going to change, ready? Five four three two one. Keep your

eyes

on the center point and make the colors of the image become more normal. Try moving your eyes and you'll notice that the colors you think you're seeing aren't actually there.

In fact, if you look around you everything is in grayscale. It's pretty strange how your brain can play such crazy mental tricks on you. When in reality reality is very different for this next illusion, I'm going to go to the computer because I'm going to show you a little animation, first let me change it to color. So I want you to stare at the blue duck in the middle and don't look away from that duck in the middle. So at first you will notice a space moving along the arrangement of the ducks, but at this point you should be seeing a yellow duck start to appear, although it is not there, your mind is filling in the blanks and It becomes so vibrant that you can just reach out and grab it.

Oh, rubber ducky. (duck quacking) Now, for this next illusion, we have to go to a world with only one color. (hits TV) (soft music) Wow! So I'm in a monochromatic room right now, which is really mind-blowing because I actually look completely desaturated because of this special light, which only supports one wavelength, amber. And so it allows you to do some fun things. When you take a regular flashlight and put light back into the room. For me, I can only see them because there are several grays in the grayscale, but when I introduce the light, they are either released colors or they are on the shelf.

So my next question is, what color is this painting for you? To me, I see a very dark gray, but when I turn on the light, it is revealed that it is actually blue and we have the red logo. You can do other fun painting tricks like this. It looks like a scene of a small tree with that cute butterfly, but actually with light, you see that it is a chameleon about to eat the butterfly and a little butterfly friend there. My great-grandfather handed me a painted portrait from Western times, and it was a... - My God (unintelligible) turn off that light. - well, this has been the monochromatic room.

Now I'm going to go to another illusion. So the really cool trick about colors is that if you look at them long enough, they can do a trick on your eyes like this illusion here. If you're going to look at this central star, and by the way, this works better on a desktop computer or a larger tablet if you have one, but look at the star and you may start to notice the word dream and the colors start to fade. away, but comment below if it worked for you. So I have one more final wishful thinking for you here.

And this is a little seizure alert. If you are prone to seizures, don't watch the next part, because it will be a flashy little animation. But before finishing this video, if you liked it, give it a like. And there will be two videos here and subscribe here. But here is the next illusion, follow the instructions. So I want you to watch this animation of the Z logo. Don't look away, you can keep watching. Now, just a few seconds, I'm going to move to another image and you should see some crazy warping happening. Well, three, two, one. (instrumental music)