Just cross your eyes and relax; your mind will blend the colors together into something new.
Does anyone have any insight into this?
Just cross your eyes and relax; your mind will blend the colors together into something new.
Does anyone have any insight into this?
All I get is a continual shifting between the two originals, with more emphasis coming from the pattern on the right, since that’s my dominant eye.
Ditto the above, in the yellue example it gradually switched between yellow and blue. I never really saw something I couldn’t describe in terms of those colors.
I don’t get any one thing either. Sometimes I get two circles with pure colors and sometimes they disappear altogether.
That’s strange; I get a new color for each that is definitely not one or the other.
To the extent I see a new color in the red and green circles that’s not just shifting colors, it’s just sort of a muddy greenish brown. It doesn’t seem like anything that can’t be expressed in one of the current color coordinate systems, which is the primary criteria I’d think would be necessary for a “new” color.
The Pantone system has thousands of colors. A big paint store will have that many browns, a color not in ROYGBIV.
Of course colors will mix. Why are you being surprised by this?
(And I also don’t see anything in those links.)
MIght be interesting to see the original context of the first one, which is by some random individual and has nothing to do with colors per se but with using it as a method of crossing the eyes with concentration to relieve migraine auras. It appears that the OP is coming up with a new way of looking at these.
The other one is just an image from Wikipedia so I can’t track it back to context.
FWIW I see a shifting of a combination of the existing colors, not a blend resulting in a new color.
The blue and yellow squares I had trouble getting to stay crossed. The blue square dominated, the yellow turned into a rhombus, and at most I got a paler blue with a slight greenish tint.
The green and red circles were much stranger, changing between red, green, brown and other colours. But that’s hardly surprising.
You might want to read the Wikipedia article in which the second image is used:
I remember reading about “forbidden” colors in a Scientific American some time ago. They mentioned these sorts of experiments like these, but they are difficult to see if the individual doesn’t perceive them as being equally luminous. Apparently, in their experiments they would find what the appropriate luminousity values were for people, then IIRC, they’d flicker the colors and people would see it.
That said, the Blue and Yellow example was the easiest for me, and I could definitely see a Bluish-Yellow that was definitely neither Green nor Gray. The Red-Green example was much harder for me to see, but I think it’s because it’s not designed to be used that way. Again, I saw a color that was Reddish-Green and it wasn’t brown.
I think for those who are having difficulty seeing it, you might need to adjust the settings on your monitor so that you perceive the colors as equally bright. If, for instance, the Blue seems to dominate, you may need to turn up the yellow or down the blue until they can sort of fade in and out on top of eachother, then cross your eyes and you’ll see the color.
…of course, now I’ve got a headache.
I took another shot at the yellow/blue one and I think that much of the effect has to do with fatigued retinal cells, giving the complementary color.
I know exactly what I should be seeing . . . except that I have cataracts in my dominant eye, turning it into something entirely different.
But what about the color Squant?!
Not working for me either. Those 3-D pictures never worked for me, either - I’m pretty much convinced they’re just a hoax.
Funny, it’s those 3-D images that described this sort of thing as just the colors canceling out, when I always noticed they didn’t quite. They wash out, but you can still detect both colors. But I still wouldn’t call it a new color–it’s just random alterations between the two. I’d think you’d get the same effect with high speed alterations of color.
BTW, Cat Whisperer, can you even cross your eyes? Are you sure you have true stereoscopic vision?
No go here as well. I can’t see 3-D pictures either. (Glasses correct my vision to 20/20 but my eyes have never quite worked together properly.)
In the first one, I can get the whole circle to briefly become whichever color the outline of the circle is. One or the other sometimes starts to disappear if I can avoid blinking for long enough.
In the second one, nothing except the cross inside the yellow one disappearing.
Sorry, I either see blue gradually turning into yellow and black over time, or I see a sort of vague beige color.
OTOH I’ve read that magenta, where the red and purple overlap, is a sort of color the eyes can see that doesn’t occur in nature, since wavelength is linear but the hue wheel is circular…
I was able to do it for both examples in the OP. The red and green combined into brown and the yellow and blue combined into a dark yellow. As Exapno said, you could get the same effect by mixing some paints together.
Forget that, crossing my eyes gives me a headache. Like everyone above, I only see the colors overlapping one another.