{"id":128099,"date":"2021-09-25T17:23:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T00:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/this-photo-is-black-and-white-it-uses-color-grid-lines-to-trick-your-brain"},"modified":"2021-09-25T17:23:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T00:23:24","slug":"this-photo-is-black-and-white-it-uses-color-grid-lines-to-trick-your-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/this-photo-is-black-and-white-it-uses-color-grid-lines-to-trick-your-brain","title":{"rendered":"This Photo Is Black And White. It Uses Color Grid Lines to Trick Your Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-photo-is-black-and-white-it-uses-color-grid-lines-to-trick-your-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A weird and brilliantly effective optical illusion that has gone viral on the internet tricks your brain into seeing a color image \u2026 but if you look closely you will notice that the photo you are looking at is only black and white.<\/p>\n<p>The viral image was created by artist and developer <a href=\"https:\/\/pippin.gimp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00d8yvind Kol\u00e5s<\/a> who carefully overlaid red, orange, yellow, blue, and green grid lines over black and white images.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn over-saturated coloured grid overlaid on a grayscale image causes the grayscale cells to be perceived as having colour,\u201d Kol\u00e5s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/illusory-and-28661801\">explains on his Patreon page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A weird and brilliantly effective optical illusion that has gone viral on the internet tricks your brain into seeing a color image \u2026 but if you look closely you will notice that the photo you are looking at is only black and white. The viral image was created by artist and developer \u00d8yvind Kol\u00e5s who [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}