If the white and gold versus blue and black dress taught us anything it’s that when it comes to blue lighting/filtering, our eyes get really f***ed up.
When it comes to optical illusions that have confounded the internet, Akiyoshi Kitaoka, a Professor of Psychology at the College of Letters, Ritsumeikan University, in Kyoto, Japan, is a pro. Just check out his illusion page.
Now he’s come up with a new deceptive illusion by tweeting out the following:
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Strawberries appear to be reddish, though the pixels are not. pic.twitter.com/Ginyhf61F7
— Akiyoshi Kitaoka (@AkiyoshiKitaoka) February 28, 2017
There are no allegedly red pixels in the image. According to The Independent, the colour of the strawberries is a neutral grey:
Mind you, some have been contesting the Professor’s picture on Twitter:
@AkiyoshiKitaoka i think I found some red(dish) pixels...? pic.twitter.com/xOf7nut4jb
— roland j dempster (@rolandjdempster) March 1, 2017
@rolandjdempster @AkiyoshiKitaoka Those are JPG artefacts. If you had compressed the original image with PNg, they would not be there.
— Sina Bahrami (@dearsina) March 1, 2017
@AkiyoshiKitaoka It's a warm grey ... the pixels *do* have value in their red channel. If there were no red, it would look like this... pic.twitter.com/6Z7IE5fuDW
— [+..••] (@AllegroDigital) March 1, 2017
@AkiyoshiKitaoka 574b4f Hex Code information. This color is part of the Magenta Red group. pic.twitter.com/PLPJ9id9wJ
— Auroleus Bombastus (@ScoresOfWhores) March 1, 2017
@AkiyoshiKitaoka I'll just leave this here... pic.twitter.com/SO3VmBDt3F
— Jason Dora (@tonurics) March 2, 2017
@AkiyoshiKitaoka Side-by-side with an edited version. Berries are the exact same in both images. Maybe this will help some people. pic.twitter.com/EWdTvmsgEr
— Dave Clawson (@clawdaver) March 1, 2017
Via Twitter