optical illusions

Remember when someone put a picture up of a dress and asked you what color it was?  The internet blew up with people on both sides claiming they were seeing a different color.  Today on New At Noon, we talked about a whole new optical illusion that's driving people crazy on the internet.

I absolutely love optical illusions. They're magic tricks that are played on your eyes. What I didn't know is that the National Correlate Society names their favorites. The “Dynamic Ebbinghaus” was named the illusion of the year. Here's the winner and some of the other finalists:

Optical illusions can play some really weird tricks on our brains. We think we're looking at one thing and then... sike! It's something else. Honestly, what the heck. But you know the best type of illusions? The photograph kind, because they can be all sorts of awesome, strange and funny...