The Eclipse of Mars - See a new colour you've never seen before!!

Redshift · 01-06-2005 10:33pm #1

Well... at least never before on your monitor.
The colour you are about to witness is actually true Cyan ... a colour that is heavily diluted on the vast majority of monitors (thanks to colour pollution). It's a pity one needs an optical illusion to demonstrate this, but at least you can see what you've been missing ;-) Anyway on with the illusion....
Stare at the white dot in the centre of the red circle. The longer - the better (two minutes and you'll get a much stronger effect). Always try to keep focused on the white dot. It'll be worth it.
Soon after staring, you'll start to see a thin rim of light around the edge. Don't stop staring though yet! Wait another minute - keeping your head perfectly still.
Once you've done this, slowly - move your head backwards - making sure to keep your eyes focused on the dot at all times. The circle's rim will glow brilliantly with true Cyan! Keep on moving your head slowly backwards, and it'll glow very hot!...
The blue/cyan colour chart to the right isn't part of the illusion, but there to demonstrate that the ultra cyan you have just seen is not in the monitor's color palette! It should be, but isn't.

David19 · 01-06-2005 10:37pm

Wow that was amazing!

John · 01-06-2005 11:05pm

that was cool! much better then those stupid american flag things we were made look at in psychology (if you look at the american flag intently for a few minutes and then look at a white space you'll see the flag but all the colours are wrong).