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Anonymous
true color!
>> Keopra
What just happened?
>> Anonymous
It has to do with the way our brain processes visual information.

The world isn't preceived as one smooth environment, much as we'd like to think it is. The eyes takes "snapshots" of wherever they're looking at and the brain temporarily stores them. Whenever someone looks at something, their eyes shift many times, taking alot of different images. The brain then assembles those images much like a collage and "smooths over" the rough edges.

It's the basis behind the vast majority of all optical illusions.

The .gif displays blocks of different shades of colors, our brain processes and re-processes them until it looks like a fine gradient of colors.
>> fps_emsley
I got told dogs command us!
>> Keopra
>>271253
You speak the truth, and it's a wonderful explanation of vision.

However, each block in this gif is but a segment of the larger gradient, not an individual solid color block of its own. Maybe this is blending due to image compression (I'm not really sure how that works), but in this final product, each block is a miniature gradient.
>> Anonymous
i don't get it. i see a color spectrum and that's all.
>> Anonymous
same here
>> Anonymous
>>271310
When it first loaded it showed the blocks appearing one by one.
>> Anonymous
>>271310

Same, I am not getting the "illusion."
>> Anonymous
GIF has a maximum of 256 colours. This uses a trick by combining many frames, each with 255 colours and 1 transparent colour, to make a true colour image.
>> Anonymous
he's trying to say that each one of those blocks is a solid color but when they are all together the the illusion is that they seem like a gradient but it's bull if you open it in gif maker and look at each square individually you will notice that each square is made of a gradient, gif fails.
>> Anonymous
i still dont get it
i know what the illusion is but i dunno how it achieves it?
>> Anonymous
that gave me an erection.O_o
>> Keopra
There is no illusion.

Supposedly each square that loads is a solid color, and when you look at it next to the other squares of similar solid colors, your mind blends them into a gradient.

But like we've said already, each square that loads is actually a gradient and not a solid color, making the entire image a gradient, making this NOT an illusion, making this a huge failure.
>> Anonymous
>>271344

.... is right. Each of those squares has more colors available than it does pixels, but each frame uses a DIFFERENT colorset. So it really is true color, there are probably thousands there. It is not, however, USEFUL true color, since you could only do this on a picture that filled in with teensy tiny squares like that.
>> Keopra
>>271467
Why didn't someone say so sooner? :(