Resolution seems to have something to do with it. On my phone I have to zoom in to a circle then back out but once I look away it's rectangles again. Computer monitor on the other hand the circles are massively apparent.
What's really weird is the circles were obvious for me and I wondered why slimshady was giving a hint under the spoiler tag. I showed the Mor-man and he didn't see the circles at all, but they were so profound to my vision.
I investigated it in the photoshops. If you guessed that the circles were the same horizontal lines just rotated 90° you'd be right.
My guess is the illusion has something to do with background/foreground flipping.
While investigating I discovered this, which besides screwing with your vision if you stare long enough produces an interesting gradient effect if you stare at one spot and move closer and further away.
Tell the Mor-man to concentrate on one part of the image that has vertical lines, and then follow the path formed by joining together the end of each vertical line with the nearby end of its neighbor.
If you erased all the horizontal lines in the image, you'd just be left with a bunch of vertically-striped circles.
I investigated it in the photoshops. If you guessed that the circles were the same horizontal lines just rotated 90° you'd be right.
My guess is the illusion has something to do with background/foreground flipping.
While investigating I discovered this, which besides screwing with your vision if you stare long enough produces an interesting gradient effect if you stare at one spot and move closer and further away.
That's insane. I don't see a gradient in the big image, but in the thumbnail I do. That's without doing any staring or moving, just at a glance that's how it looks.
When I look around near the center, it's twitching and it never looks as round as it should be. Maybe it's an artifact of my own vision which isn't that good in one eye.
Apparently this is like the dress all over again, what colours do you see?
I see mint and grey with some sort of faint yellow/pink splotches on the toe of the shoe. Supposedly a lot of people see white and pink, but I just cannot see that no matter how much I look at it.
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Either they're fucking with you or something's wrong with the color temperature of their monitors. A paint program confirms that it's what it looks like - blue-green ( #7ebbb4 ) against grey #939f9b.
I don't think my wife is fucking with me and we're looking at the same monitor
I found this picture on the facebooks and there were thousands of comments. Many people saw the mint and grey that I see, but just as many see the white and pink my wife sees.
I just wondered how the people of see it, I'll put you down as a mint/grey
The funny thing is, I saw it as a muddy white and pink right up until you said otherwise then it changed to mint and grey.
With some mental effort I got the white and pink back.
Just like the dress, it all depends on if your brain thinks it's a pink shoe under green light, or a grey shoe under white light. The background offers a clue but it's dark enough that your brain doesn't want to use it as a white point (since white points are bright).
Apparently they're pink and white. It's kind of the opposite of "The Dress", which was a black and blue dress under a relatively bright light that washed out the colors without enough context for many people to (automatically) mentally correct the colors. This is a pink and white shoe in low/seemingly somewhat greenish lighting conditions.
So now I'm wondering if there's any complementarity in who sees what colors... Do people who saw a white and gold dress see a pink and white shoe? Or is it the other way around?
For the record, I only ever saw the dress and blue and black, and I can't get myself to see the shoe as pink and white, although I can reason that the hand looks greenish so it makes sense that the shoe is more pinkish as well.
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see it, I'll put you down as a mint/grey 
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