Comments on: See colour when there is none

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:07:23 +0000

Sorry if this makes me sound like a pretentious arse, but I figure it’s equally as interesting to know that it’s not your brain doing the imprinting – the effect is the result of the cones in your eye becoming bleached to the inverted colours over the first thirty seconds; when colour in the image is then returned to a ‘neutral’ state (grayscale), the cone receptors ‘overshoot’ the mark to perceive the tonally opposite colour – fascinating stuff about perception there – it’s a bit more complicated than that, but I figure I’m boring anyone who’s bothered to read this enough already

By: Angel

Angel — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:52:39 +0000

wwiicckkeed!!!!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:29:52 +0000

Thats kinda cool, although you can’t properly look at the image when its “in colour” because for it to work you have to keep looking at the centre.

By: bb

bb — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:41:44 +0000

I found it worked better at normal size, I saw the illusion for longer. I don’t know if anyone else had the problem with the twiddling YouTube “loading” circle glitching away in the middle the whole time? That probably isn’t helping people keep their eyes still. I notice YouTube does that sometimes on videos which are very still like this. Probably an issue with Flash or something.

BTW love the new blog layout, but yesterday I did a massive comment (ooer) and then accidentally clicked “subscribe” and lost everything. I think this is because the subscribe button is where you usually find a submit button. Or it could just be me being a dolt.

By: Eulalie

Eulalie — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:48:39 +0000

I was listening to Any Colour You Like as I checked my RSS feed. Obviously, this just meant I was predisposed to notice something saying “colour”, but I still love those moments.

It probably has to do with how willing your eyes are to stay focussed. Mine just refused, but I still got a split second of vivid colours. That, and I have a bright light by my eyes, which can’t have helped.

By: Fiona

Fiona — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:39:11 +0000

The brain is a wonderful thing It works really well for me, really vivid colours

By: Emma Rose

Emma Rose — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:24:37 +0000

Thats amazing its really vivid!
For me the grass is green and the girl on the left and girl on the right are wearing pink
it stays that way for as long as i keep my eyes still

By: Siobhan

Siobhan — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:22:15 +0000

Didn’t work for me… though I did go slightly cross eyed looking at it which made for some interesting looks from co-workers. (then I should probably actually do some work rather then looking at this blog…)

By: Helen

Helen — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:14:36 +0000

It sort of worked – the ‘colour’ image after it was switched from the negative looked like a tinted photo rather than glorious technicolour and faded to black and white after a couple of seconds. Interesting illusion though

By: KenWor

KenWor — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:11:51 +0000

That is sooooooooooo cool!

But then again I am easily impressed these days….