See a new color you’ve never seen before!!…Well… at least never before on your monitor. It’s a startling example of how poor the green/cyan element is on TVs and monitors generally. The colour you are about to witness is actually true Cyan … a colour that is heavily diluted on the vast optical illusions 10 majority of monitors (thanks to colour pollution). It’s a pity one needs an optical illusion to demonstrate this, but at least you can see what you’ve been missing ;-) Anyway on with the illusion….
Stare at the white dot in the centre of the red circle. The longer – the better (two minutes and you’ll get a much stronger effect). Always try to keep focused on the white dot. It’ll be worth it.
Soon after staring, you’ll start to see a thin rim of light around the edge. Don’t stop staring though yet! Wait another minute – keeping your head perfectly still.
Once you’ve done this, slowly – move your head backwards – making sure to keep your eyes focused on the dot at all times. The circle’s rim will glow brilliantly with true Cyan! Keep on moving your head slowly backwards, and it’ll glow very hot!…
The blue/cyan colour chart to the right isn’t part of the illusion, but there to demonstrate that the ultra cyan you have just seen is not in the monitor’s color palette! It should be, but isn’t.
It’s an amazing effect.
Oh, look, a sailboat.
Cool….
That was so beautiful, I was in awe when I saw it.
IT WAS SOOOOO COOOOOL!!!!!!!!
It was a very pretty color. Now that they’ve mentioned it, i’ve also wondered at this color. why can’t it show up on the computers and TVs and stuff? my car is this color.
I am truly impressed…that is really cool. I’m still seeing a strange blue circle…
It’s so pretty.. =o It’s gonna be stained on my eyes for awhile more, though, but it was worth it. =)
I cheated and only looked for about 10 seconds. It still works ;-)
cool it looks like everyone has a blue mole! HAHAHAHAHAH
after doing it, look straight at something white. :D
That’s such a pretty color! Thanks for putting this up here.
ooo behehehehe look at your hand straight after.. looks like a bingo dabber mark!
Awesome, if you look at the center of your hand
Wow! Reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaly Cooooooooooooooooool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL. my hand has a glowing blue circle now when i look at it.
When you look at the blue palett before you try the illusion, the ones on the left look greenish, but look at them right after you do it, they just look blue
that wuz crazy pople pretty nice imma do it again i wonder where i could se this color permanently (like on cars and on walls)…
ahaha . . ahh my eye !! lol
Simply fascinating and a great (painting) lesson for unveiling true colours… tks!
:O!! Pretty!!! It’s STILL infront of my eyes, lol, i listened to the last half of a 4 minute song and willed myself not to blink..it’s very worth it. <3
it was cool i guess better then most of the illusions
Wow It is a reallllllllllllly pretty color
COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
I think I dreamt that color once. It was the sky on an alien planet :)
Beautiful!
if you get up cloaser to the screen when u start looking at it the efect is better.
OMG my eyes! What have you done!!!
owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww my freakin retna!
shiiiit,,
that was freaky stuff,,,, and it kept growing bigger as i moved away, i mean even beyond the box… wow,, ultra cool
That does look cool, but.
Has any one thought of the dammage this could be doing to my eyes?
Dude, it’s been 3 minutes, and I’m seeing a cyan circle where ever I look (like, on the white wall of my room.) That’s trippy.
I DONT SEE IT!! :( WAIT…CAN I BLINK??
Very Interesting…Thanks
Yes you can blink chinki.
That is AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i cant get it out of my head
WOW!!!! THAT WAS REALLY PRETTY, IT WAS A REALLY COOL BLUISH COLOR, BUT I STILL SEE A BLUE CIRLCE………… AND WHEN I WAS STARING AT THE DOT, THE RING AROUND THE RED CIRCLE WAS HALF RED AND HALF BLUE, IT WAS GOING AROUND AND AROUND, IT WAS REALLY AWESOME!!!!!!!! THANKS FOR PUTTING THIS IMAGE ON HERE =)
awesome!!!!
I stumbled across your web site threw a search at Canadianblogs! I think this is very cool, and would like to share with others. I have posted your URL at my blog in order to share with others! I belong to a group that is called “Microsoft Home Ambassadors”. And right now we are looking at interesting blogs to share with others. Well I find yours interesting! And mostly alot of FUN! I am sure I will be checking back quite regularly just to see what you have done! I sure have enjoyed going threw all of your Illusions and so has the Grandson and husband!
I am still seeing little green spots going around and around LMAO!
TC! & HAGD!
testerswife (MHA)
It is too on the color pallete…. trust me…. I can hear things people can’t hear, and see things that otherwize can’t be seen… usually high pitched noises and colors. I have an eye for matching colors. Don’t mean to sound like a know-it-all but it’s true. There can’t possibly be a color that’s not on the color pallete. The colors off to the side are different shades… and each one is gradient by one on the slide. The color you see is near the center of the pallete. you can see this if you stare long enough, then look over at the pallete at a distance so the blue circle is just outside of it.. you will see its matching color.
CKOEOWL aka cool get c o o l and k e w l any way that thing is so awesome
Wow, that was areally pretty color….but now all I can see is the blue circle. It won’t go away.
it was so like pretty and i think u should show alot of people that
That is such a beautiful colour. It’s breathtaking. Thank you for sharing.
ty very much now im color blind for blues on that spot of my eye XD
that was way kewl.
but nobody special, srry but ur wrong 2,
cyan is on the colour pallet but not on the 1 bside the red dot.
that pallet is blue shades,
not cyan shades.
and personally i think that u only see weird colours cause u have bad eyesite,
any1 cud see its not on that pallet,
theyre pure blues fcs!!!
the circle can also represent the “center” of your vision… you have on focal point of your vision, and the circle can show it, when you get close enough to the screen… truly is a beautiful color though…
that was really cool. i could still see the color for a while after i stopped staring
it hurts me eyes!!!!!!!!!! lol but its awesome now my eyes are all wacked up!!!!!!! kool color though……..also y did we have to hold our hand still?
herk, why did you give my all this LSD ? i’m all wickblurp…
pretti!!!!!!! like me pony!!!!!!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH! IT BURNS!
OMG it’s beautiful!!!!
Woah cool…
but now the cyan ball is standing on my wiew!! :/
:o Look at yourself in a mirror right after! You look like you’re about to puke! :P
AHHHHHHHH! ouch ouch ouch… now all i see is a ring of blue! make it stop!
ugghhh…….hi…..i really think u should stop saying bad words!
Is any1 filtering this??? anyway i am sorry u have too see blue dots.
…Cuz… i know how u feel!!
oooo PRETTY
dude that was sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a cool color! I’m still seeing it which is a bit irritating but quite cool! Really pretty. And so bright and .. nice ^^
ive done that before with alot of things!!! like listen to what i say, if you stare directly at a light, and wait 5 seconds, it does that anyway!! still very cool though!
now where evr i luke ders a blue cyan lol dats tite
every time i look at any lights the same dots appear, i hav sensitive eyes. sumtimes with magenta
♥that was just amaZing♥ =^_^=
i got so far away that everything turned blue!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
why am i seing this circle? it won’t leave me!…wait, it’s gone! coooooooool!!!
the cicle wont stop moving damn it it is so beautiful tho im gald i clicked on it it is the most gorgeous color i have ever seen
seriously its somehow so pure
wow
i liked how it looked when you look at the centre of your hand afterwards
wow… cool!
Certainly one of the best illusions i’ve seen. it got so bright. Then, also, when i looked away from the screen the blue color was everywhere. it took like 10 minutes to go away, very strong color. Keep ’em comin! Great site.
alot cooler than it sounded cooool
Fantastic!
i never see these things darn
PhilJ
on 7:47 PM
Oh, look, a sailboat.
LMAO
Amazing!!! It was so beautiful! Way worth the teary eyes from staring for so long! Thank you!
Woah, that illusion is wicked! I keep seeing a blue circle everywhere I look!
this is so much a lsd trip
I can still see that stupid blue dot. O_O
LOve it!
LOve it!
LOve it!
;p
nobody special
Cyan is in that on that chart. Bottom left hand corner.
There however is a large difference between computer cyan and print cyan.
I honestly don’t know what you think you’re seeing, but displays have always sucked for true colour accuracy.
oh my god dat is amazing the circle looks so real its hard to believe its not real nd only imaginary its really cool on the palm of ure hand nd if u look at someting pink it turns purple its really freaky
I saw the color in about half a minute… But still it’s a nice illusion!
Wow, that was SO COOL!!!!!! I LOVED it!!!!!
I enjoy your site very much, and I hope you keep providing us with cool and interesting illusions like this. Keep up the good work!!!
wow that was amazing and soooo coooool!It’s amazing how much different it looked from what they show like on the television and computer.
THATS SO NEAT!!! My hand was so blue for a minute i thought it was actually painted or something.Really neat illusion
im still seeing the circle…but that was cool..still wonder why we cant see it on comps
wow! i didint think it would work but it did and i onley looked for about 10 seconds darn my attention spand
My eyes started tearing up so I had to close my eyes after bout a minute…
If you close your eyes then look at your hand you can see it, too.
(Sorry if this has already been said, I didn;t read all the cmments. @_@)
so…beautiful…so…blue……..
WOW THAT WAS SO NICE!!!!!!!!!!!I nevr saw somthin like that of my life!! Thanks alot ur site rocks!
i Think This Is A Wickedddddd Illusion!!… The Colour U End Up Seeing Is The Best Colour I Have Ever Seen In My Now 15 Years Of Life!!….i LOVE it!!
Is it okay that im seeing a circular blue tint everywhere now?
My School Was Making A “Newspaper Day” We Had To Make A Whole Newspaper In One Day And I Loved This Sooo Much… I Put It In My Page Of the Newspaper. Goooooo Me!
Im Hannah By The Way♥
the only prob is that i see a cyan coloured circle over the colour chart.
Oh wow!! what a pretty color!!! that is so cool!!!
WOW!!!!! thas d best illition in d whole site.
ps. r d effects supposed 2 b permanent cause i did it like 2 minutes ago n im still seen the blue cirle……EVERYWHER!!!!!!!!!!
IS DRIVIN ME CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!
i agree with lady after u look at it anbd move ur head to another pert of the screen u still see the colour. totally awesome tho.
WOAH, that was pretty. but im still seeing a pretty shade of blue circle thougt, it was really worth it. very preety!!
DUDE!
hey i figured if you cover one eye while doing this when your done your vision isn’t as messed up!
how do you get rid of the blue circle? lol
its a really good illusion and i love the colour!!! :)
the circle kinda follows you round it followed me i looked at my tv and it was there o ps before i saw the blue glow i saw a maroonish brown glow circling the red circle
the blue follows me i looked at my tv and the circle and before i saw blue i saw a maroonish brown color circling the red circle
Oh dear god!…that’s awesome! the cyan circle is still floating in my eyes as I type!
This isn’t really an illusion, it’s to do with complementary colours. The chart is of some shades, but probably not the complementary colour of that particular red. Nice cyan though. Awesuuuum…
Whoa! I can still see it lol that has to be on of the best on this site!
WOAH!!! THAT WAS TOTALLY AWESOME! that never get’s old! I’ve been doing it so many times now…that color is sooooooo pretty! that’s the color that I want my birthday car to be!!! and my ipod, but they only come in so many colors…
This is cool! But I see a blue circle in my head when I look at something white
WHY ISNT TRUE CYAN IN MONITORS IT RUINS EVERY OUTDOOR SHOT THAT is CRAP IT IS MADE OF FAIL AND AIDS
Woh! How cool is that?! I can still see a blue circle wherever my eyes go. That’s brilliant! When you move your head back, you just get the full effect of the colour!
It’s a VERY nice colour
LIKE O-M-G!*!*!* ~!…..WOAH…..!~ MY EYEZ, LIKE, FEEL WIERD! U JUST DON’T KNOW HOW MUCH I ABSOLOOTELY <3 THAT BEAUTIFUL COLOUR! I PROBLY NEED 2 DYE MY CHILD'S HAIR THAT WONDERFUL COLOUR! HIS NAME IS SAM AND HE IS TWO, AND WOULD ABSOLOOTELY ADORE HIS HAIR MUCH MUCH BETTER IF HIS HAIR WAS CYIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!O-M-G!
i think it would be better if we all just pooped on the world.
That is a really pretty colour! I love it!
Um..this is soo cool. Can we see this clour becuase our minds allow us to see it or is it just some computer made up thing? Im just asking!!!Anyways does this make us dumb?
My retinas are totally branded with the blue circle! The further away I moved my head, the bigger the cyan colored circle got until it started going out into the white part outside of the rectangle! It’s evil that that color doesn’t exist on screens… now when I look at my hand, it’s all blueish, and the further away my eyes are from my hand, the more blue area on it! It looked like a blue light on my hand…
wow that is so cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
OMG! I love that color! I’m gonna go paint my room like that now!
My mouth was shaped into something like –> :O
It’s a great illusion
the model looks like and ipod
nothing special if you can do that your very speical
it’s just so beautiful and such a pure blue. such a gorgeous color
OMG i love this illusion. may i ask how long the blue circle stays with you . i love this colour
It’s a nice illusion, but it did originally come from Skytopia.com (check archive.org for proof). Try to give credit where due if poss :P Thx :D
it is a beatiful colour i love it soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much. I cant belive how pretty that colour looks
BUT MY EYES HURT
It won’t go away ahhhh. xD Interesting, I’ve never looked at something for so long. o_o
oh cool…after watching this….star at any blank colour..preferably white walls or a white desktop..n ul still see a cyan circle!
Nah….boring! Just more blue! : o P
“IT WAS SOOOOO COOOOOL!!!!!!!!
It was a very pretty color.”
sick! beautiful color. im gonna try it more than once.
it is such a beautiful colour! i wish my eyes were that blue. it is still stained in my eyes though ti is 5 mins later. it still works really well if you stare at it for about 15 secs
so coooool!!!!! cnn should show this. LOL it would make it less boring
that was the best illusion i have ever seen :), also, i saw weird designs in the red circle when i stared at it, then a blue-black ring formed in it. anyone else see that?
This illusion made me think there was a blue stain on my bed afterwards XP
Cool.
Pretty color too.
wow…gorgeous colour. while i was staring at the dot, it seems like the red isnt really red…?
Wow! Awesome illusion! After a while i can see the origianal red color. Wierd!
OH MY BEDFORDSHIRE!!! That cyan is really sonmething scary blue circle in my vision now ahhh:D
Now im seeing that cyan BEAUTIFUL dot everywhere i look, truely is an amazing illusion. I wish my eyes were that color. I wish you could just copy that dot color and take it in and get a paint color like that. I love that color!
omg that’s an amazing colour
Wow, I really haven’t seen the colour before! And I only stared for about a minute.
Quite strange…
The first illusion with no one link in the explaining text…
Or maybe this is another illusion?
The links are there but i can’t see them! Nor the mouse pointer!!!!
i was like whatever right when i stopped looking at it but now that i was reading the comments that damn cyan circle is still in my sight,Nice
thats my new favorite color:)
omg its like i see a blue dot everywhere now! weird!
go into paint and try diffrent colour green gives you an ultra violet colour
Its been one week the illusion was still there! I still see it! Someone help me!
Oh wow! That’s pretty cool!! It’s just that now I’m seeing a cyan circle everywhere :S
my ipod is that color.
So I stared at this right before I went to bed and dreamt in this colour.
after i looked at it there was a cyan circle following where my eyes were, cool!
i saw a sailboat my eyes hurt oh….. im color blind!!! dont use this seriously omfg aaaaa!
omgthis was like TOTALLY AWESOME thank you so much for sharing this i did like 20 times all the times it worked! im gonna do it again :0)
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wow!!!! thats awesome…
for some reason it didn’t work at first, but when i scrolled down it followed me everywhere i looked. Great post! i wonder if you can do the reverse of all of the colors?
Wow, that one is truly amazing.
The first thing i wanted to do when i saw it was take a picture of it, but then i realized…
I`ve seen similar stuff, but this is nice also..
oh my gosh this is the most beautiful color i’ve ever seen!!
wow
*stares in awe again*
the afterimage laasts too long. its as if its permanently burnt onto the retina.
wm, im #155,; i put that comment in November and nowits Jan! U tell me thatnoone else left a comment?
WOW niiiice
Ever heard the song “Brand New Colony” by The Postal Service???
This is what the sky wud look like!!!!
shit! it’s the most beautiful illusion and color i’ve ever seen for my entire life! from now on, cyan is my favorite color!
That’s a beautiful color…:)
Get this blue circle out of my vision!!!
wtfdtigo? only 5 people ahead of me from Jan and now its May?
wow!! What a pretty color!!
I AGREE! So cool!
It WAS AMAZING. I LOVE OPTICAL ILLUSIONS. YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAA
dude i love this but do i know u from boy scouts
This is my favourite optical illusion of all time. I SAID ALL! AND I MEAN…
not really all.
Damn, that’s cool. Like, hyper cool.
Cheers!
Its the end of june now, and only 4? how popular is this site?
lol technogirl, i think you check this site and page to often… but i would of thought loads more people would of commented…
one of my alltime favs!
Just awesome… the new colour…
cooooooooolllllllllllll…..it’s so beautiful…
the blue circle after image is burned into my retina
That. was. awesomely. bright. It felt like a beautiful, shining portal was about to reveal itself to me from my computer screen. But that red circle was in the way. And now that the beautiful dimension did not expose itself to me–like the rest, the memory of it it burned into my retina…
OMGGGGG SO COOOOL!!!!! I SENT IT TO SOME OF MY FRIENDS! :) IT TAKES A MINUTE OF STARING ACTUALLY. BUT IM CAPITALIZING BC WELL I CAPITALIZE WHEN SOMETHING IS LIKE REALLY INTERESTING! 8D OR JUST FOR NO REASON LOL. I LOVE THAT COLOR. VERY CUTE :)
the most beutiful color of all time!!!!
what you can do too, is watch the image for 2 minutes liek in the instructions, then close your eyes and keep your hand before your eyes so your eyes don’t catch any light. Then, even when your eyes are closed, you can see the cyan. But this effect is a bit too strong. I see it even now while typing this comment :)
same . . haha
holy crap it works
sooooooooo bright i luv it is my fav color now I LUV CYAN YAY 4 CYAN
I only had to look at the image for a few seconds o get that color. It is truly magnificent but now I have that color burned into my retina. Its pretty but it makes things look a little strange.
It also took me just 20 seconds to see it,
1 thing some of you could miss is that all the blue spots on the pc and besides it turn gray.
It’s like the cyan circle steels the blue and converts it in tu cyan brightness
itss.. its… beutiful
omfg im color blind i didnt see anything
Wow! That is so pretty! Weird…..
*stares in awe*
*gets blinded my cyan-ness*
Wow. That was absolutely beautiful. I also tried to look on a white wall right after, and there was the cyan circle! Nice illusion :)
wow real cyan is the most beautiful color ever!
WOW!! Eyes burning! Aaaarrrrgh
amazing ! i have a new fav colour ^^
same here!
Shush up Nancy
:O beeeaaaauuutiful colour.
Yes the colour is pretty but then I’m now seeing blue circles EVERYWHERE and it’s quite annoying :P
It’s…It’s…It’s beautiful.Does anyone know a way to see pure brown?
This is awesome. But the thing is as I write this I see the circle still.
now i can see a light blue circle on the screen! evil.
OMDG so damn cool
OMG!!! This illusion is great!!! I love that clour it was so beautiful!! the only problem: there is now a stupid blue cirle afterimage. Apart from that GREAT!!!
why is the name of this illusion ‘The Eclipse of Mars Illusion’?? anyways, i just love the color… why can’t they put in onto our monitors too?? :S
its. still. there. @__@
yes its a nice color but the effect last to long. i think im permanently seeing blue.. >.<
omg
such an awesome colour
I love that colour
love the colour!!!
P.S My name is Archie
loooooong afterimage like 20 min! but, kool color!
I can still see a circle in the colour when ever I blink now, such a pretty colour :3
It is such an amazing colour :3
Its now my fav colour
o.o it’s beautiful!!! \o/
brilliant blue color!wow!
I see the colour-it’s really nice! I found it works even if you stare for 15-30 secs, bit it’s better the longer you stare. :)
Unbelievable… Truly amazing and beautiful!
AHH-MAAYYY-SIINNNG!!
the red becomes like bright blood red and the opticul look butiful breath and the collor becomes its brightest
cyan circle will follow as you read the lines.
ITS SO PREETTTY!! XD
O.O Whoa! >o< Wahh an epic color!
I’VE SEEN THAT COLOR BEFORE! It’s Cerulean, my favorite crayola crayon color :]
Absolutely breathtaking.
Ooooooh it’s so pretty :)
It’s my wallpaper now
How to delete the circle? Turning of my monitor doesn’t work ;)
The circle is an optical illusion that stays in our eyes for a small amount of time after we have stared at something for too long.
whenever i look at something white, i now see a blue circle!
my computer is capable of producing WAY more colours than that.
COOL, also the after effect is a blue dot same size as red and the red dot starts to get grainish after starting for 60 sec or so . . .
haha i was totally cool
The red circle illuminated a blue circle. I followed it around on the screen for like 3 minutes and it’s still there! I’m not sure if that’s bad or not XD
I think I stared to long, there is a blue circle everywhere I look.
Yes, true.
That also happens if you stare at something bright.
AWESOME ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !!
FINALLY , THIS IS NOT A @!$%$% GIF , AND THIS WORKS.
BTW if you wanna remove the effect , try closing your eyes for 5 to 10 minutes. ((But it should automatically disappear after 2 to 3 min of ooking to any other thing))
Um . . . okay . . . moving along.
Now if your eyes are getting reeeeeally sore, at about 1 minute just stare at something white. Like the Jesus face illusion.
It also makes it easier to compare to the color chart, and lasts a lot longer (like staring at something really bright then closing your eyes)
I had to change the amount of time my computer went on standby for.
That is such a beautiful colour
haaaaaa…. need to blink
Cyan was always my favourite color.
I see the cyan color after about half a minute, and it gently reverberates for about another half minute.
It’s beautiful…
That’s my favorite color!
Now need to add the impossible colors….