This trippy image appears to be a pigment enigma. Puzzle lovers are straining their brains over this optical illusion, which reportedly fools the viewer into thinking that they have gone colorblind.

A head-scratching optical illusion challenges the perception of color and how the brain plays tricks on us. In an image created by the UK contact lens vendor Lenstore, a series of lilac letters ...

How optical illusions work has been long-debated among scientists and philosophers, who wonder whether these illusions stem from neural processing in the eye or involve higher-level cognitive ...

So I've read in more than a few places that color doesn't exist outside our heads, it's just wavelengths of light. That our brains are the things that make color, same with sound (which is just ...

When Dimitris Papailiopoulos first asked ChatGPT to interpret colors in images, he was thinking about “the dress”—the notoriously confusing optical-illusion photograph that took the Internet by storm ...

Optical illusions never fail to mesmerize and challenge our perception, blending science, art, and psychology into fascinating puzzles for the mind and eyes. The image above is one such creation—a ...

Optical illusions play on the brain's biases, tricking it into perceiving images differently than how they really are. And now, in mice, scientists have harnessed an optical illusion to reveal hidden ...

An optical illusion is a visual phenomenon where our perception of an image differs from objective reality. This image is perceived as a visual impression of a swirling tunnel or vortex effect. These ...

Optical illusions are older than you think. The first optical illusions date back to 20,000 BC and took the form of cave sculptings. Nowadays they are found all over the place – on screens, in books ...

An optical illusion is a visual phenomenon where our perception of thinking about an image differs from objective reality. This image is seen as a high-contrast black-and-white optical illusion made ...