How many horses do you see?

World: People are ranting on social media in shock over a horse optical illusion.

A painting by artist Bev Doolittle named ‘Pintos’ has been taking the internet by storm, causing a heated debate over just how many horses are in the image. It seems eerily similar to the debate surrounding whether that dress was gold and white or blue and black – what a throwback.

The image shows a group of chestnut horses in the backdrop of southwest America according to Love This Pic.

Painting the image in the mid-late 1970s, Doolittle used ‘line, colour and pattern’ as the ‘main tools’ to create ‘optical illusions’ and ‘hidden pictures’.

Art Discovery explains, ” The LINES of snow in the rocks blend with the lines of white on the horses in Pintos. The SHAPES of colour on the horses are the same as the rocks behind them.

“By using the same LINES, COLOR, SHAPES and PATTERN on the horses as in the background, Bev Doolittle hides the Pintos in the picture and we have to look hard to find them.”

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The painting has since been uploaded onto the National Institute of Environmental Health Science’s Kids Environment Kids Health website.

One of the institute’s expert scientists resolved the image contains a total of seven horses – despite Doolittle herself saying there are five.

Kids Environment Kids Health reveals: “We’ve heard there are supposed to be 7 horses (including some partial horses, like a horse head and rear) shown in the picture.

“If you do not see seven, perhaps this humorous note from one of our best scientists (and puzzle experts) will help: ‘I guess it helps to know we are looking for seven.

“In that case, I see one on the left looking out, and in the middle four faces are clustered close together – in that group the brown nose of one (second from left) covers the right side of the face of the one crouched lowest. To the right is a small horse standing sideways, and above it is the rear of the seventh. Unless I am hallucinating.’

Source: Agencies