Impressive. They can change their colouring to match the surface they're on and will attempt a checkerboard pattern if they have to!

@newtboy - I'm blown away at how certain you are it's all fake. I suggest you do what I did: Instead of using paper on your screen, just take a screenshot and insert into an image editor and inspect things there.

I cut the three tiles out and pasted them side-by-side and they are in fact the same color: http://i.imgur.com/e5lcV5P.png

I dragged straight lines on the checkerboard before and after the dots were added, and it has only straight lines.

I copied/pasted the blue tabletop, rotated it and it fit perfectly on the other one: http://i.imgur.com/QzT8nc8.png

Nothing was fudged in the video. It just shows how powerfully your brain is latching onto what it believes it is seeing.

It's like that dress photo from a few weeks ago. "Is it white and gold or purple and black?!" Many people were hardcore in one direction or the other.

The only one that left me confused is the pills. 1) He said they were red and blue, but they were yellow and turquoise. 2) They had holes in the pills allowing the background color through; it was only there that they looked colored, otherwise they were just gray. I suspect they were just trying to shoe-horn in a red pill blue pill Matrix reference.

Sorry, newt, but that's simply inaccurate.

I saw two grey pills too, but you're completely wrong about the others. I screen shotted all the images into paint.net to verify them.

The rubix cube image is 100% real. The RGB values for the blue and yellow tiles are identical (127,128,129).

Same with the the tiles under the table. They are are off by a small amount (rgb 70 68 71 vs rgb 70 68 70), but I'd but that down to the video encoding.

Ditto with the checkboard; zooming in with paint.net the lines are pixel straight (there is some anti-aliasing at the edges, but it doesn't affect the "straightness of the checkerboard").

The tables too, are the same size. I rotated the vertical table.

If you don't believe me, try it yourself.

The Ti DLP chip is the most commercially successful MEMS device created. I own a DLP projector(720p) and a rear projection Mitsubishi DLP TV (1080p). I like that DLP chips can give you 3D (in a checkerboard pattern) basically for "free", and it looks better, IMHO, than other 3D displays which also use active-shutter glasses.

Some nitpicking - most home DLP projectors use a 6-color wheel, not 3.

He also didn't mention that most digital movie theaters use DLP - although this is a a more expensive system, because there are 3 light sources and 3 DLP chips (RGB) instead of having a color wheel - and they are larger chips with more mirrors.

I think he chose his wording a little poorly. The purpose of perception is to estimate physical properties of the environment. It's just not meant to estimate the exact intensities and so forth. For example, in the Adelson checkerboard illusion, you are reporting your perception of the surface reflectances irrespective of illuminant. That's a perfectly sensible environmental property to estimate. It just isn't a direct mapping to the image falling on your retina.

I'm no means an expert but I used to live there in the 80s and 90s as my dad flew for Cathay Pacific and I've only ever heard of the one 'Checkerboard' approach. Flying the jump-seat into Kai Tak was a magical experience as a kid.

"Their drills were bloodless battles, their battles were bloody drills"

What raised a smile from me about this video was the "checkerboard" formation, all I can say is that it speaks volumes from a bird's eye viewpoint in that Rome learned it's lesson from Hannibal Barca on August 2nd, 216 BC

Trivial fact:- More Roman soldiers died in one day at Cannae than American soldiers in the ENTIRE Vietnam war.

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This one looks very similar to your previous sift: http://videosift.com/video/Checkerboard-Optical-Illusion


Frak. You're right. This old insect can't remember. *dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Checkerboard-Optical-Illusion

This one looks very similar to your previous sift: http://videosift.com/video/Checkerboard-Optical-Illusion

This video has been seconded as a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof seconded with isdupe by eric3579.

thanks jonny

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*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Checkerboard-Optical-Illusion

*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Checkerboard-Optical-Illusion

This video has been nominated as a duplicate of this video by jonny. If this nomination is seconded with *isdupe, the video will be killed and its votes transferred to the original.

That night in Toronto with its checkerboard floors
riding on horseback and keeping order restored

On one server I played on, I had a room with a 10x10 grid (checkerboard of course) of chests on the floor and ceiling (200 total chests), with the vast majority filled with gravel, stone, dirt and sand (all labeled, naturally). Now, the one that had all my good stuff in it was in the "sand" section on the ceiling.