Color Perception - Optical Illusions

List of Color Perception visual illusions:

• Bezold Effect

  The Bezold effect, named after the meteorologist Wilhelm von Bezold, is an optical illusion demonstrating how color perception is altered by the proximity of different colors, and how they effectively interact with each other. The typical Bezold effect..

• Benham's Top

  Benham's Top is a circular design, meant to be represented on the upper part of a spinning top, completely designed in black and white. When the spinning top rotates above a certain velocity, it is possible to see arcs of colors inside the rotating circ..

• Chubb Illusion

  The Chubb effect, or Chubb illusion, is a phenomenon demostrating the effects of proximity of textures with different contrasts. In the classic experiment, if a circle with a texture is surrounded by a solid color, it appears to be of higher contrast t..

• Cornsweet Illusion

  The Craik-O'Brien-Cornsweet Illusion is a color/brightness perception illusion, observed first in 1960 by Tom Cornsweet. In this illusion, the right half of the image looks brighter than the left, but they are really the same color and brightness. This..

• Scintillating Grid

  The scintillating grid illusion consists of a grid of gray lines on a black background, with white dots superimposed on the intersections. The resulting effect is that the white spots randomly seem to turn black for a brief moment, creating a "scintilla..

• Mach Bands

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• McCollough Effect

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