A Colorful Visual Illusion

All the balls are the same color — and that color is *brown*! pic.twitter.com/JriPXHnNYR

— Chaz Firestone (@chazfirestone) June 14, 2019

(Tip of the cap to Lucas Lacasa.)

"Best-Tasting Colors"

I don't completely agree with the new XKCD, but there is some truth here.

I would move "cherry" way over to the right.

I did recently have an experience with eating a pink Starburst and expecting strawberry but getting watermelon instead. It was unpleasant.

Even more unpleasant are past experiences of eating red with the hope that it's cherry but then getting cinnamon instead.

Yuck.

A Colorful Bird

Here is a gorgeous, very colorful bird.

(Tip of the cap to IFLS.)

Visualizations of Street Networks

These visualizations of street networks are gorgeous. The coloring is based on orientation.

(Tip of the cap to Dave Relyea.)

Rainbow Eucalyptus Tree

IFLS reminds me of the rainbow eucalyptus tree, which is the most colorful tree in the world! I would love to see one of these live. In the meantime, go to Google Images for some very pretty pictures.

Eponymous Shades of Blue

It turns out that "Dodger Blue" and "Oxford blue" are both eponymous. Well, I bleed Dodger blue, not Oxford blue!

(Tip of cap to Matt Sullivan.)

Colorful Ants

Ants + Liquid + Food Coloring = Big Win!

(Tip of the cap to 'I Fucking Love Science'.)

Optical Illusion of the Day

You might remember that I posted a link a while back to this awesome optical illusion of a spinning silhouette. (I can't find my blog entry on it at the moment, so I must not have tagged it very well.) Here is a more generic but still cool optical illusion that I mentioned previously.


Well, here is another really awesome optical illusion, which was posted on Bad Astronomy. Damn! It's probably not as cool as the silhouette, but I still really like it. It also makes me thing of the green/blue paradox (or whatever that's officially called). :)

Also, here is an aural illusion that I can't get to work. I get exactly the same thing whether or not my eyes are open or closed. Can somebody explain this one to me?

(Tip of the cap to Rob Neyer.)