Thanks. Do you have any other suggestions that may help clarify the article? Your explanations have been very helpful. Learning the terms was apparently something I never bothered to do. Oops. :P
I think the key for me in understanding this type of illusion (and the general phenomenon of colour constancy) was to realize that ‘colour’ in common usage (“this ball is blue”) is perceived as a property of objects and we infer it indirectly based on light that reaches our retinas.
This happened sometime this morning. The more I read here, the more I understand it in the sense that I know the name of the relevant field, a whole bunch of new terms, and more details about how we perceive colors. It gets less and less bizarre as the day goes, which is always fun. :)
Thanks. Do you have any other suggestions that may help clarify the article? Your explanations have been very helpful. Learning the terms was apparently something I never bothered to do. Oops. :P
The article reads better now. So do you feel the bizarreness has disappeared now you understand the phenomenon better?
Yes. The key point that you mentioned here:
This happened sometime this morning. The more I read here, the more I understand it in the sense that I know the name of the relevant field, a whole bunch of new terms, and more details about how we perceive colors. It gets less and less bizarre as the day goes, which is always fun. :)