Wow, thanks for that link, really fascinating. I tried that thing with the slider in the second illustion, and it's interesting to see how the eyes adjust - when you slide it back to the original colors, the eye first sees the middle pieces as grey and then quickly shifts them back to blue/yellow. Very cool.
Yeah, it's really amazing how our eyes work to make recognizing colors easy and compensate. Of course it also kind of sucks because you always have to work against what you think you perceive when you paint anything in color. I mean, I know that in theory, but I always forget to account for that when I color things, and then of course it doesn't look natural or like the light I want, because I get stuck on the "grass is green" model of coloring. It's harder even than perspective, because there at least the distortions follow fairly logical rules, but color depends on so many things that all influence it.
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