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[–] Oka@sopuli.xyz 306 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

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 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 265 points 11 months ago (4 children)
[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 105 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 48 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Colored impressed; appears pink.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

fun fact: pink isn't a real color.

[–] Trincapinones@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 months ago (4 children)
[–] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 28 points 11 months 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 11 months ago (1 children)

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 4 points 11 months ago

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

[–] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 4 points 11 months ago

And so is brown.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 3 points 11 months ago

Orange is the new black

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

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

[–] TheHottub@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

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

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

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

[–] widw@ani.social 37 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

You guys never cease to amaze me.

[–] jenny_ball@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] TassieTosser@aussie.zone 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Huh, it shows up as black to me.

[–] june@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.