Great optical illusion.

[Jack_C-B]

This illusion is called the eclipse of Mars and it makes you see a "new" colour that you will never see on a computer screen or tv. Its called True Cyan.

To do this you have to stare at the dot in the middle of the red circle for about two minutes (with your head relatively close to the screen). You will start to see the edges of the circle glow a brilliant cyan colour but just stay foccused on the center of the circle for a while longer. When you think you've looked at it for enough, slowly move your head away from the computer screen to see the "new" cyan that you won't get to see very often. This illusion has been rated as one of the most popular illusions. (and yes i wrote this myself, not copied it from some website)

Edit: as you can see from the colour spectrum on the right, the cyan you just saw is not in the colours that your monitor can display.

Edit (again): enjoy and goodnight im off to bed.:)

[Sprida]

Well the colour that it shows sure looks like a colour on the spectrum... I am shade blind so could that affect it?

[Triball]

Well, it is beautiful, but I think I can see the color on the scale

[mattsmith]

Well, it is beautiful, but I think I can see the color on the scale
It's unlikely that you can. Monitors use the RGB colour scale in which it is hard to reproduce an actual cyan colour owing to its unusual red content. It's basically a good illustration of why CMYK is a more accurate scale than RGB.

[dudewithasock]

That's really cool! I actually couldn't find that color on the spectrum (heh I'm still seeing it in the quick reply box, too).

[Det-riot]

that is neat-o

im seeing the color all overstil

[CKCrowe]

I couldnt get it to work.

[CKCrowe]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwyIM2koL3g&NR=1

look at this one!

[CKCrowe]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Eh4Y_cBaVo

I just made this one for an optical illusion sort of thing, been working on them hard, on vacation, hope you enjoy.

[Into the blue]

I was waiting for a zombie to jump out at me.

[habbywall]

Maybe I'm doing it wrong. But does it sort of look like a glo-in-the-dark type color to anyone else?

[Poseidon]

I was waiting for a zombie to jump out at me.

Ya.... I'm always scared if I have to concentrate on something in a video.

Both of these, the video, and they true cyan are pretty awesome.

[Gumba23]

this is a great site for optical illusions http://www.moillusions.com/

[Uniman_3]

holy crap thats cool!!

[monkeyman]

Ooooh, pretty.

I still like the dragon (http://www.grand-illusions.com/opticalillusions/dragon_illusion/)illusion better.

[dudewithasock]

Ooooh, pretty.

I still like the dragon (http://www.grand-illusions.com/opticalillusions/dragon_illusion/)illusion better.

Yeah that's a good one. J-wizzie brought one of those to physics once and there was like 5 of us all moving our heads around trying to get it to work.