What colour do these hearts look like to you?
Purple and orangey red?
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Surprisingly, they’re exactly the same colour – pink!
The optical illusion was examined on a video by YouTube channel Bite Size Psych which explains that it’s the intersecting colours of the heart that appear to make it change.
The narrator explains: “If you zoom in on the picture you find that the striped bars aren’t actually the same colour.”
“These surrounding blue bars make the heart seem purple while these surrounding green bars make the heart seem orange.”
The illusion appears this particular way to us because our brains perceive an object’s colour based on its proximity and how it compares to the colours around it.
Crazy, right?
VIDEO: Watch the optical illusion be explained below
