Optical illusion causes chess pieces to disappear right in front of your eyes

"The Phantom Queen" is the winner of the annual science competition "Best Illusion of the Year 2021", with the participation of talented neuroscientists, vision scientists, ophthalmologists and ophthalmologists. artist. Together they create amazing optical illusions, intended to deceive the viewer's eye.

In the illusion "The Phantom Queen", it is easy to see that the pieces on the chessboard are all black, arranged on a flat surface of alternating gray and pink squares. However, in a mirror (not a dummy) placed next to it, the viewer observes the strange appearance of a white queen, whose position on the board is completely empty. what.

This leaves us immediately in awe, not knowing that the upper queen is just being masked by a visual illusion.

In the video explaining "The Phantom Queen", it can be seen that this is just a very well designed 3D illusion, with the "key" being a block printed in the shape of a checkerboard in 3D perspective.

This so-called "anamorphic perspective" only works from a specific angle when viewed from above, and simulates the built-in perspective. At that time, the cube will blend into the chessboard and obscure the white queen from view.

Optical Illusions are still known as images that deceive the eye. In other words, these are the images "predicted" by the brain. In the above case, the 3D illusion has made us rule out the possibility that an object exists on the chessboard, blocking the view of the Queen. Instead, many people will probably think that the mirror is the place to be "fake".

Normally, when the retina receives an image signal, the brain needs about 1/10th of a second to process and convert the signals. According to neuroscientist Mark Changizi, 1/10th of a second of the brain's rhythm delay is the time it takes for the brain to form "predictions" of possible images next.

The brain's ability to "predict" plays a pretty important role, keeping us from plunging into high-speed dangerous objects (like cars on the highway), or predators. move very fast… Through that, they give us a better view of this special ability of the brain.

However, sometimes because of this fast calculation, the brain can be easily fooled by simple optical illusions.

The Ebbinghaus illusion easily deceives the observer.

For example, the famous Ebbinghaus illusion pictured above, with a simple design consisting of an orange circle inside many other circles. Surely, you will see that the orange circle on the left is smaller than the circle on the right.

In fact, they are the same size. The reason is that the size and distance of the adjacent circles from the central circle have deceived the brain about the size and width of the two orange circles.