Identical colours can look different

From the book "The Frog Who Croaked Blue" by Jamie Ward.

One coloured patch looks orange and the other looks brown but they are, in fact, physically identical colours. That is, each patch reflects exactly the same wavelength of light.

This illusion is created in our brains, not in our eyes. The eye treats the two coloured patches as identical, but the brain created an alternative interpretation of these colors using other information that is available -- such as the pattern of shading on the cube. There is a part of the brain, called V4, that is responsible for our conscious perception of color.

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[Actionjackson4444]

They are the same colors... it turns lighter because the background shading disappears and your brain recognizes it as a lighter shade

I put it in photoshop edited the two squares out and they are the exact same color

[BlueOceanBelow]

Take a screen cap when the cube first shows up and drag a piece of the top square into the bottom square in ms paint. Same color.

[xxLoomy]

@usiisu1 Coming from someone who capitalized every single word nice work there... 

[usiisu1]

Funny... The Same People That Are Saying This Is Not True Or That They Are The Same Color, Are The Same People That Can't Even Spell Correctly -__-

[theponchoman]

i think this is a trick. because normally the one in shadow would be darker. thats why its hard for our brain to understand that theyre the same.

[uorder]

What the fuck is going on? GIMP showed the same colors!!!

[shlempnar]

oh fuck my life

[BlueOceanBelow]

"Your" dumb? That's classic.

[shlempnar]

your dumb

[mlenek]

it does turn lighter