A photo is circulating on the internet and has caused a lot of speculation, since the difficulty of figuring out what's in the image leads to placing it among the optical illusions most viewed in recent weeks.
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The image in question is a group of girls posing with a small turtle, but while the brain makes us think that it is in color, in reality it is in black and white. Learn details.
This viral image was shared by the economist at UTC Economics on Twitter. What caused people's commotion was the fact that it appears to the brain in color, but it is in black and white.
What happens is that the brain causes a distortion of reality. The photograph is in black and white, but the lines that cover it have color and make people see the image in color.
For those who don't understand why this is, science approaches an explanation. In reality it is a digitally modified image for the visual experiment. The artist has developed a software that makes an illusion with the assimilation of colors.
The fact is that just by placing a grid of lines, the image achieves a selective colored effect over what was originally black and white.
Optical illusions are very curious, as they mess with people's unconscious as they manage to trick our visual system making us see anything but what is really there. represented.
When we observe the image, it is decoded and interpreted by our brain, but the way of comparing angles, lengths and distances causes an erroneous assimilation.
In the illusion above, the artist had the insight into how our brain is deceived and can play with this situation.
