An embedded color wheel appears to extinguish when observers fix their eyes on the cross.pic.twitter.com/6BWmWl8KKG
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Very cool. Makes sense that color is not needed, but adding color kinda enhances the effect, in that we know color is there, but the periphery evens out the images by suppressing color info, as opposed to just contrast. Is there a name for this illusion?
Check out the "uniformity illusion". Keep your eyes still in the centre and enjoy. Otten, M, Y Pinto, C L E Paffen, A K Seth, and R Kanai. “The Uniformity Illusion: Central Stimuli Can Determine Peripheral Perception.” Psychological Science, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797616672270 ….pic.twitter.com/qfFXs9ROjS
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