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Omg, win
that’s pretty cool
This works because of the persistence of vision. Your mind stores a few seconds of images. This is why when you wave a flashlight or sparklers around quickly you can see a full circle of light. This is why after you blink, move your eyes, or just wait a few seconds, you see the picture as black and white.
Also, like someone else said the negative colors over a black and white image, are the reason the colors appear corrected. Look up tintype photography for an interesting historical use of this.
Thanks for the explanation, buttwipe. I just thought it was cool. Learning how it works kills it.
That’s because you’re an idiot.
Agreed. You’re an idiot.
You’re obviously the only person in the world who, upon learning how something works, rejects it. “Oh no! I made fire by striking two flint stones together! Now fire is just plain stupid because I know how to make it.”
There are too many ways of making it. And some of them ARE regreted. But yes, you still have a good point. That is an awesome trick, and I did like knowing how it worked. So, you’re the buttwipe, Dutchman.
i don’t think you’re an idiot, magic is cool until you learn how it is done, (this isn’t magic but the concept can be applied…)
just sayin…
Though, if he didn’t want to know the secret behind the illusion, he shouldn’t have read the comments. Seriously, what did he expect to read?
I’m not just sayin…
I’M SUPER SAIYAN!
I love you for making that reference.
That is not how it works Miah. Whats going on here is the same effect as why and apple looks red even under a red light; your photoreceptors adapt to color and brightness. Rapidly changing or removing an image after focusing on it for a while will create a counter image as a result. The oddly-colored image before the black and white image is a counter image to the full color version of the photo, so rapidly replacing it with a color-neutral image will give the illusion of color. This has nothing to do with an image being stored in your mind, the cause of the effect is isolated to your retina.
I meant why an apple looks red even under a yellow light, whoops.
Oh…. I didn’t even see this… then, bam, o.o
When people give long, unnecessary explanations, they are trying to look smart and trying to be all cool and stuff.
I can’t make this NOT work. When I cover up most of the image and don’t stare at the dot, it goes straight to black and white. This leads me to think that there is NOT an interstitial frame of color, which is the easiest answer. Instead, MY MIND IS INSANE.
i did the same, and i did saw the color of the walls.
The weird thing is, if you keep your eye on the dot after the change, the environment continues to look in color. If you don’t, it still appears as it does, but only for a fraction of a second.
This is way cooler than those 3D images. I never managed to see any of them though, so maybe I’m biased.
I tawt I taw a pudddy tat!
What people don’t realize when looking at this is that you are looking at the inverted colors. So when it switches back to B&W your mind is tricked into translating the inverted colors into regular colors.
But… When I invert the colours in MS Paint, it isn’t the same as you see on the B&W one…
thats because the inverted colors were the exact negitive. thats what i call it. if you gte the colour exactly right then it might work in MS paint.
Your eyes don’t work that way. Interesting!
You seriously think they don’t realize that? A 2 year old monkey would realize it. That’s how plainly obvious it is.
Of course, since nowadays most people have an intelligence between that monkey and common moss, you could still be right.
See the name.
dont work.
keep your eye on the dot, even after it changes. The wall on the right is red, the one on the left is yellow, the trees are green, and the brick patio is orange.
Yeah not sure why it mentions just the walls.. the entire image goes into faded but very noticeable color.
Trees, sky the works.
and the sky is blue.
Turn your office chair around, toward the computer.
Win.
maybe it doesn’t work on color blind people….
Not true. I’m very colorblind and it worked fine.
well… that would mean you were capable of perceiving color, meaning you technically aren’t colorblind.
ZOMG WTF HOW THAT WAS SOOOOO COOL LOL
And i wont bother to say first. I am first but i wanted to ruin the “FIRST” thingy for someone else 
nope. you’re not. you thought you were, but you’re not. zomg.
*sigh*. haven’t people learned by now that there’s a delay between posting your comment and having it show up? I mean, after you post it DOES say your comment is awaiting moderation.
ZOMFG i hate that -.-
I dun’t get it?
You’re supposed to keep staring at the dot, like it said, til it turns back to black and white. If you keep staring at the dot, then when it turns back, there should be colors, but only IF you keep staring.
OMFG
oh my god >:O
HOLYFRIGGINCRAP! DAS COOL!
Wow, nice name.
what i dont get it
???????????????
OMG OMG He put a colored frame just before the no color frame OMG OMG IT WORKS! Seriously, you don’t even have to look at the dot.
ohhhhh thats it? i thought it was something else
i knew about that thing they showed us in school years ago
I think you’re mistaken.
The first time, I let my eyes wander, and saw only black and white when the image changed. The second time I saw colors, which disappeared as soon as I shifted the position of my eyes. Then I read your comment and thought that perhaps I’d let myself be duped, so I tried again with the same results.
I think this is a valid optical illusion… and it’s fun!
I did the same, and noticed that after I moved my eyes from the dot and it went back to b/w, if you stare at the dot again, the colors will come back, just slightly faded.
Well damn, you’re right!
honestly, it doesn’t matter if you focus on the dot. it’s only there to keep you focused, and to keep your eyes from moving.
No mate, look at just half picture, covering the other half with your hand, you’ll see there isn’t any colored frame or anything. Your eyes are getting crazy mate! It is the internet, it got you!
No, it’s an optical illousion. But hey, I’m not trying to ruin your internet-conspiracy theory…
No.
Actually he didn’t, look again…
There is no colored frame. If you don’t look at the dot, you’ll see that the effect doesn’t work at all.
no it isn’t a colour frame i checked i looked at the dot the longer you look at it the longer the colour stays.
what am i looking at
That is so freakin cool.
good trolling gif
omg it works!!!!
what’s awesome is that after you get the false-colour image, if you look anywhere else in the pic its black and white, but look back to the dot and it colours itself again. b&w/colour/b&w/colour over and over and over again =D
It is a side effect of persistence of vision.
THANK YOU.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_of_vision
ZOMGZOMG
Possibly the single stupidest thing I’ve seen on the internet in a long time, and I’ve seen some pretty amazingly stupid stuff on the internet. This is an animated gif, with black and white and color images. The dot has nothing to do with it.
what? did you not see the colored image? the dot is there so you can concentrate on staring at the same part of the screen without your eyes wondering off
I looked at this when it had been running on the screen for a while and it was at the end of loading, and switched to b&w seconds after I started watching it. I saw no colour image.
It only worked when I stared at the dot. I don’t think there is any colour image inserted into this gif.
But you ARE correct that the dot has nothing to do with it, it’s only something to focus your eyes on to keep them steady. What’s really happening is that your eyes are becoming desensitized to the inverted colour image, leaving them sensitive only to the colours that are supposed to be in the full colour image in the correct places they should be shown (hence the need for the dot to keep your eyes steady).
This is a pretty common (and neat) optical illusion. The color receptors in your eyes essentially get “fatigued” from prolonged exposure to a single color. Normally we subconsciously compensate for this effect by shifting our focus around slightly. But if we consciously fixate on a single spot — like that dot — we override that compensation. Look up “afterimage effect” on Wikipedia for more.
I’m surprised so many people aren’t familiar with this basic optical illusion. It merely exploits how your vision works — when you stare at one specific point, the afterimage of the colors temporarily remains even when the colors are removed because photoreceptors get used to seeing that image for an extended period of time. See this article for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterimage
Its absolutely fantastic! I stared at the dot the first time and saw colour building and the black and white when I shifted my eyes. But then I thought “meh, its a Gif, so someone has added the colour frame after.” So I’ve done it again staring at the trees and the top but it just flicks to a black and white. Did the dot and I saw a colour image! Amazed!
I took the gif apart in a program and it is indeed an optical illusion, there is no color picture in between. Staring at the dot somehow allows you to see the normal colors. Really neat!
It isn’t magic, it’s persistence of vision. What are they teaching in science classes these days?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_of_vision
The question should be, “What are they teaching in English classes these days?”
If you bother to read the article to which you linked, it clearly states that Persistence of Vision is a disproved theory, a.k.a. a myth.
Referencing the wiki afterimage article is spot on.
Idiot, try reading the entire thing.
It very clearly states that ‘persistence of vision’ (eye centered) is different from the ‘myth of persistance of vision’ relating to human perception of motion (brain-centered).
Basically, if you’d bothered reading what you’re correcting others on, you’d have realized that what they’re saying is that the idea that we see motion in video due to an afterimage effect is what’s mistaken, not the idea that an afterimage is left on the retina.
Apparently what they’re not teaching is critical thinking skills.
Regardless of how you interpret the meaning of “Theory of Persistence of Vision,” it’s still not relevant to the image we’re discussing, as the perceived illusion does not involve movement, perceived or otherwise.
It is a still image with a shift of colour. The effect is simply a negative afterimage perception of the image’s colouring. Since the GIF here seems to be animated at about 0.5 FPS, it doesn’t even qualify for the still accepted definition of cinematic persistence of vision.
So fling insults, do whatever you need to do to feel good about yourself, but I don’t have problems with critical thinking or applied knowledge.
that is cool! i wonder how it works…
holy cow!!! that was cool-io!! (and yes… i am a zombie.)
Seen similiar things in comics and in physic class.
Though i gotta say i appriciate that someone made a gif of it.
Coool. We need more gifs like these on here.
It doesn’t work with me ¬¬
stare at the dot. it works!
O NOES MY EYEBALLS ARE FUXXORED
It made my eyes tear up.
I don’t get it. There is a negative image of the picture and then it goes black and white. All I saw was a bunch of blue and green tones. Is that what I’m suppose to be seeing that is so amazing? The picture does change.
Stare at the dot, and don’t look at anything else. If your eyes start kinda clouding up everything except the dot, that’s excellent. It should be in normal colors when it changes, but then fade to black and white quickly.
Look at the dot and dont move your eyes when it changes.
I finally got the colors after a few tries. I was finding it really hard to not flick my eyes down to that loading bar…
I totally saw it! This is pretty awesome
yeah we learned about this in sociology. something with the way your brain picks up light and when the light changes your mind sees it a different way at first. i covered up half of it and when it changed i took my hand away and half had color, the other didnt
wow, it really works……
what’s with the broken progress bar?
Ack! Mindf**k… O_o
A number of years ago there was an Apple Jacks commercial that used this very same visual phenomenon to introduce green Apple Jacks. They had a large red circle on the screen with a black dot in the center and told the viewer to watch the dot. After 20 or so seconds the red ring vanished leaving a green ring in it’s place. Kinda clever really.
I can more or less understand why this works, but it still blows my mind
can i somehow download this kick-ass gif???
Right click. Save As…
For everyone calling “ZUMGZ DER IS A COLOURRR FRAME?!?! S***!!”
If you dissasemble the gif, there’s no colour frame, just the b+w and the negative.
I expected for this to be a screamer. lol
I’ve heard of this before! You look at a solid color for a longish while and then look at something mostly white and you see the inverted color of what you were staring at for a long while. I’ve never tried it but that was awesome
You don’t have to stare at the dot, if you stare at any point on the pic for that time, when it changes to b/w you’ll see colour.
it didnt work for me…. but thats just probably cuz im colour blind…
lol, it doesn’t matter where you stare, as long as you focus on one point
Awesome! And works much better with some weed
Everything works better with weed.
I don’t even have to stare at the dot and it works for me. Pretty neat either way.
Anybody else notice that the loading bar filling isn’t actually in the bar?
I’m a bit surprised so many people were not aware of this type of optical illusion. As has been pointed out, you can find out more about it by looking up Afterimage on Wikipedia. It’s really a fun little illusion.
mind = blown. this is CRAZY
HOLY ****ING ****
I was totally expecting a screamer then…
lol yh
My head esploded!
OMG DIS WORKS! I was expecting something scary to pop up but DIS WORKS! I saw the colors of the walls!
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same LOL
haha! same!
I was like ‘omg… when is that damn excorcist girl gonna pop up and give me nightmares D:’ but then my brain got blow’d up 
i think everyone whose been “screamer’d” before was expecting it.
oooh! coloury
Sooooooooooo awesome! Stare at the dot = colours. look at anything else, gray. look at the dot again, colours. friggin kewl :p
Another trick for the doubters (and a generally cool thing): put your thumb in front of one of the trees, and stare at the dot as normal. When it changes, take your thumb away. That tree will be grey.
Does anyone know what you need to do to make this work with any picture? If you reverse the ‘negative’ image it has really exaggerated colors, but I can’t quite figure out what adjustments have been made to the original picture…
Crank up the hue?
it works!! this is awesome! at first when i looked at it, it just turned to black and white and i was like “what?” then i kept watching and the colors came!!! its not a color frame for sure if you look at something else then watch when it changes you can see its really real
I know this optical illousion, and have seen it many times, but not worked up so cleverly as this. Very nice.
Oh yeah, a few tricks to prove you doubters wrong:
1. Stare at the dot for only half the normal time. The colors will be less vibrant.
2. Cover up a small part of the picture with a finger while watching. That part will be black and white when the picture changes.
3. Go through the normal process, but after it switches and you see the colors, look away for a minute and then look back to the dot. It will go black and white, then turn back.
@ coyotekitty #2 is DUH! The message to take your finger off won’t get to your brain fast enough, so the image will completely be black-and-white when you do so !
all it did was make my head hurt
Not the correct colors. All I saw was what was put in for colors. Or perhaps the photo was black and white because you desired it to be and the original color photograph was concealed in a time span shorter than the eye can percieve?
Keep your eyes on the dot, ALWAYS, the image will remain in color for as long as you want.
woah…wow……it actually works………..dang my eyes hurt now…
the wall on the left side of the building turns yellow in the black and white picture. right?
i thought something was going to pop out at first and scare the crap out of me..but it works!
yes i did! Thank you vodka!
I dont get it im coloured blind everything is black and white to me anyway!
Lol, even if you don’t look at the dot, it still works. I looked away the whole time and looked back when it ended, still not looking at the dot and i still saw the colours. fake and gay.
Oh no! Dont f**k my mind o.O
AARRRRGHHH GET OUT OF MY BRAIN!!!!
This.is.awesome.