Brian Nahas

Classic.

I heard about this when it happened 12 years ago (the winner of this game went on to beat my alma mater, Austin Westlake, in the championship), but this is the first time I’ve seen the video. Ridiculous.

It’s been a few years since I first saw this image and I still find it hard to accept. At first glance it doesn’t look like anything out of the ordinary. But would you believe that the squares marked A and B are the same shade of gray? It’s true. No, really. Print the picture, cut out squares, and then compare them. So how much do you trust your eyes?

Very, very cool, but not necessarily as difficult to create as you’d think. The next video demonstrates software that allows you to do sampled video composition in real time.