Yes, your eyes are deceiving you
What you see in these two images is a result of a trick played on you by your brain and your eyes. But don't let that stop you from figuring out what is really going on.
Every now and then, you come across an optical illusion that forces you to question everything you know about the world. Whether it is a dress, a field of cotton or a couple caught in an embrace, there seems to be no end to these mind-bending visuals.
But what is it about these pictures that pushes seeing so far away from believing?
In the case of this image, first published in an academic journal in the year 2000, it is the fact that human beings don't have great peripheral vision.
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Vision scientist Derek Arnold told The Verge: 'your brain simply makes the best guess it can to fill in the information. In this case, it just guesses the dots aren't there. The white in between the grey lines makes your brain think the dots are lighter than they really are. Thus, it just sees more grey.'
Test the theory for yourself:
So, your peripheral vision may not be good, but how well can you understand 3D images?
Designers Felipe Salazar and Karen Castañeda turned the classified section of a newspaper into an ad for a home kitchen. The two manipulated the layout of the newspaper so that at first it looks like the blocks of text have been spaced out incorrectly, but upon closer inspection, they make up a 3D model of a kitchen from a company called Corona Kitchens.
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