It seems it's impossible not to be tricked by this mindbender.
Now, we love a good optical illusion here at Creative Bloq, but sometimes we come across one that's so baffling that nobody can agree on what's going on, and some people can't see reality even after hours of staring. That's the case of this mind-bending illusion that's currently perplexing viewers on social media.
Over on Reddit, someone posted the image below with a statement that at first seems to be an outright lie."There is no yellow in this image," they say. But some people can't help seeing yellow even after doing everything they can to avoid it .on Reddit shows a striped rectangle containing three circles formed by different coloured backgrounds. The circles appear to be cyan, magenta and yellow, with other hues formed where they overlap.
But we're told that no, that yellow is not yellow. And sure enough, if you zoom in close enough so that all you can see is a few stripes of the circle on the bottom right, you should be able to see that the colour isn't yellow, but is actually white. How does the illusion work? There's some debate about that.
Some people reckon that we expect to see yellow because that's what we're used to in the CMYK colour model. Others suggest that it's because the background in the rest of the image is not actually white but slightly blue. Only the background in the last of the three circles is white, and the juxtaposition with the other colours – and with what we assume to be white in the rest of the pattern, makes it appear to be yellow.
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