Can You Tell The Colour Of The Hearts?
These hearts are, believe it or not, actually the same colour. A video reveals how your brain is fooled into seeing different shades with the clever placement of geometric stripes.
The narrator from Bite Size Psych explains: ‘If you zoom in on the picture you find that the striped bars aren’t actually the same colour. These surrounding blue bars make the heart seem purple while these surrounding green bars make the heart seem orange.’ The mind-bending clip has so far amassed more than 29,000 views on YouTube.
In fact it is the placement of the geometric stripes that fools our brains into seeing something which isn’t really there.The narrator on the video from Bite Size Psych explains: ‘If you zoom in on the picture you find that the striped bars aren’t actually the same colour. ‘These surrounding blue bars make the heart seem purple while these surrounding green bars make the heart seem orange.’
This gives us a vital clue to how our vision works. It suggests that we perceive an object’s colour based on its proximity and contrast with surrounding shades.