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[-] Oka@sopuli.xyz 302 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Red is complimentary to cyan.

If the cyan were switched with yellow, the can would appear blue.

Also, it's not our brains creating the red, it's our eyes. They get exhausted of seeing the cyan and replace it with red.

[-] Aermis@lemmy.world 76 points 1 week ago
[-] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 263 points 1 week ago
[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 104 points 1 week ago
[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 46 points 1 week ago

Colored impressed; appears pink.

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 9 points 1 week ago

fun fact: pink isn't a real color.

[-] Trincapinones@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago
[-] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 week ago

It's a real color (as real as colors can be, which is not very). It's not a spectral color, you won't find it on the rainbow. It's actually the result of your red and blue cones being activated together.

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 7 points 1 week ago

so this is based off my memory so there could be inaccuracies.
but what i've heard is that pink is the result of your brain registering a color because of specific color cones being activated but that your brain knows it's not actually that color and so it fills it in with pink.

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah, that's magenta, which looks like a pink, but it's not really.

[-] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 4 points 1 week ago

And so is brown.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 1 week ago
[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago

Orange is the new black

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I believe you're thinking of Magenta. Pink is just red and white.

[-] TheHottub@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Grab your pitchforks gang. OP is selling us snake oil posts!!!

[-] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Now send this version (with the same unedited caption) to everyone.

[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Strange, I see the OP picture as red, but this one as black & white.

[-] widw@ani.social 37 points 1 week ago
[-] Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

You guys never cease to amaze me.

[-] jenny_ball@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

so it would appear red even if it was another can?

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

yes, obviously

[-] TassieTosser@aussie.zone 5 points 1 week ago

Huh, it shows up as black to me.

[-] june@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

It depends on the size you are viewing it at. This works well on small screens but less well on large screens

[-] 11111one11111@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Let's hope it's the size of the image and not the responding user's revelation they are red green deficient lol

[-] Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

It's curious that the thumbnail actually has red values for those pixels, making me think they're cheating a bit with jpeg compression effects.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So if the can shown wasn't Coke, but Sprite, it would still appear red? Or is it a mix of both? The eyes are confused and the brain fills in? Like when seeing pink as mentioned elsewhere.

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

Your brain isn't filling in anything. Your blue and green receptors get oversaturated by the cyan, which causes your red receptors to be more sensitive to the white light than the other two, which is why it appears red. The effect happens in your eye, not in your brain.

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