Seeing vs Perception | AFTERIMAGE
Painting by Jasper Johns. An example of an after image. Stare at the white dot for 30 seconds (don’t look away), then look at a grey surface, you should see the afterimage.
Examples and discussions of color effect.
Dr. Edwin H. Land.
Photo copyright J.J.Scarpetti.
Image from: The Rowland Institute at Harvard
EDWIN LAND
Video about Edwin Land (the inventor of Polaroid) and his two color process. An article describing the relationship between Edwin Land’s experiments and James Clark Maxwell’s discoveries.
POLAROID NOW: The Impossible Project
CMYK
Short film, creative interpretation of cymk in everyday printing (cereal boxes, etc)
FOUNDATIONS of VISION: COLOR
Fantastic resource via Stanford University
ALTERED PERCEPTION and VISION
Dr. George Stratton
Dr. George Stratton’s original article,
SOME PRELIMINARY EXPERIMENTS ON VISION WITHOUT INVERSION OF THE RETINAL IMAGE.
Summary and explanation of Stratton’s work, courtesy of the staff of San Francisco’s Museum of Science, Art, and Human Perception.
Newer article, based on Stratton’s research.
Great WIRED article about neuroplasticity, vision, and perception.
Video showing inverted vision experiments: Living in a Reversed World.
THE ILLUSION OF COLOUR CONSTANCY | Color Subjectivity | Living in the past
Video.
Is your red my red? No. It isn’t.
The neurological lag between seeing light and understanding/processing light.
What is video, anyway?
TEST YOUR COLOUR SENSITIVITY (thanks Alison!)
Test from Pantone
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