Published 15:02 IST, August 29th 2020

'How many colours do you see?' This optical illusion has left internet baffled

An optical illusion which asks users to identify visible colours has left the internet in a fuzz. Since posted, the post has garnered a variety of responses.

Reported by: Riya Baibhawi
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A baffling optical illusion which asks users to identify visible colours in a spectrum has left internet in a fuzz. Initially posted by a user named 'erodaxgolden' on Twitter earlier this week, illusion appears to be a small white rectangle. However, one can easily see a variety of light shed colours once y tilt ir he or gget y are viewing it on. 

While, colours like a lighter she of lilac, blue, yellow are visible along with white, users are finding it difficult to agree on exact colours. In dition, colours visible also depend upon a screen's levels of brightness, saturation and contrast as se factors also impacted on shes of colours being reflected. 

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'Colours in white rectangle' 

Since shared, illusion has captured everybody’s attention with people identifying different colours. While many have posted pictures of “white rectangle” with justed settings of ir phone, many have posted pictures of visible colours directly. One user also suggested, “lowered brightness, increased contrast, clarity, and saturation, n looked at it under different hues and found this. do with that what you will”  ar wrote, “for those people seeing only 2, I manipulated lighting of photo to show you that re is true, 5 colours being shown". Yet ar argued, "4, t including white, which isn't a color. But it really depends on angle of monitor. Until I moved, I could only see 1 + white."

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Recently, ar similar but strange optical illusion hit internet by storm, baffling netizens.  illusion deceives human eye into seeing ar im, however, it turns out that it is just one im of two rotating cubes. It has been deemed as one of 'most powerful' illusions by perplexed netizens. complex GIF has also caught eye of engineer, industrial designer, techlogy entrepreneur Elon Musk, as he makes a remark on viral tweet. 

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15:02 IST, August 29th 2020