On: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 Simon Leibowitz wrote:

>> A great link, especially figure2
>> http://www.adm.duke.edu/alumni/purves/figure2.html
>> 
>> I thought. no way can they be the same colour, brought the jpg into
>> photoshop and cloned from one to the other, dumbfounded!
 
> Surely, this is a wind up.
> 
> How did you get the Jpegs into PS. I can't get them off the browser (OSX -
> IE5.2).
> 
> I need proof!

Simon, it isn't a wind up! Make a screenshot, then open up in PS. Run the
eye dropper over the middle of both sides of the cube, and the values are
identical. This is a well known visual/optical illusion, otherwise known as
'simultaneous contrast'.

I have always known that there is a world of difference between what the eye
percieves and the brain (intellect?!) 'sees', and is the principal reason
why I now work within a calibrated/profiled workflow by 'the numbers' - as
well as by eye.

Definitely on topic <G>

best

William Curwen   www.william.ws

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