Vision On

[peteryoung]

If you don't believe how context-sensitive our visual system is, take a look at these.

The green stripes and the blue stripes are the same colour. Honest. Copy the image and sample them in Photoshop if you don't believe me:




The centre tiles of the top and front faces are the same colour:




The top blue tiles in the left image and the top yellow tiles in the right image are the same colour, a neutral grey:




Squares A and B are the same shade:

Comments

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

I knew about the last one but not the others. Far out!

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

Wow. And yes - I did snapshot them into GIMP to prove it. :-)

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

Peter, I think you've broken my brain.

Incidentally, do you still do any design / fanzine work? I'm hoping to auction off promisory notes (or even finished art) at this year's TAFF auction, and I've long been impressed by your work.

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

Holy ... goodness!

Wow, that's pretty amazing (yes, I too copied and pasted into PaintShopPro green and blue in first image are 255,150,255 in both cases and if you copy a section across from one to the other your brane splodes!)

The yellow and brown squares match up too ... eek!

Thank you, that has indeed made my brain leak :-)

[reverendjim.livejournal.com]

I'll take your (and other people's) word that they're the same colours. I've seen the last one before but they're all stunning, particularly the first one. Wow.

[del-c.livejournal.com]

It works with Excel too. It doesn't even need the base colour to be blue green. I made the bottom two rows in that file grey, and I think that works even better.

I was thinking that if I presented this at work as part of a talk on good graphic design, I'd have to ask people to take my word for it. But then I thought that, with a bit of effort, you could make a mask out of cardboard, and put coloured paper behind it. The easiest way to make a mask without lots of work with a knife would be to print on acetate, but then people would accuse me of having tinted windows. It has to be actual holes to convince the doubters, I think.

[suetortoise.wordpress.com (from livejournal.com)]

Just seen these and they are mind blowing. I've got a headache now, but I am very impressed. Thanks for showing them to us. I've always known slight adaptions are well within the brain's capability, but these are really stong changes.