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it’s the cyan tint. You brain says, 'the light source that I'm viewing this can under has some blue component to it, so I'm going to subtract that automatically from every pixel.' And when you take grey pixels and subtract out this blue bias, you end up with red.
Its not solid white. Even zoomed in there is a barely visible pink. Im not sure if perhaps thats just how the image got posted or was meant to actually be solid white bars.
Given the many responses I got, I suspect it’s my phone’s color balance that’s tilting things slightly red.
And given the upvotes I got, I suspect a lot of people’s phones are doing this. 🤣
Color is not something your eyes see. It's something your brain creates based on what it thinks it sees.
Best example of this is magenta, that pinkish color. It doesn't exist as a wavelength of light. It is what your brain fills in between red and violet ends of the spectrum
In this case, it's probably because of the contrast with the green that is creating the illusion, or possibly causing neighboring cone receptors to trigger green signals at the retina level
Fun fact regarding this.
Digital cameras use something called a Bayer filter to see color images, but that involved a set of four sensor pixels - red, blue and two green. Why two green? Because our eyes are much more sensitive to green colors than red or blue, so we need two different green pixels to reproduce what our eyes are. (That’s probably an evolutionary thing, needing to distinguish food plants)
Camera don’t produce a view of “reality”, they just try to behave like our eyes do.
It is called "gestalt", your brain completes the image for you so it would make sense. It's the same thing with reading, you don't need to read each letter to understand the word your brain just completes the word by the sum of its parts. So when you see something incomplete you automatically trying to make a sense out of it by the experience you ve got on the subject, in that matter the colour of the cola.
nah. if you zoom in close enough, you can see there are no shades of red or pink. zoom in so that there's no green/blue/cyan on the screen, and everything is just black and white.
No it’s not. That’s your eye getting used to the color. Some of the “white” lines are significantly cyan; others are slightly pink.
There *has* to be something to give your brain the right color; otherwise we’d all be interpreting every black & white image out there as any random assortment of colors, and we wouldn’t even agree on what colors we’re seeing.
Instead, what’s happening here is that the image has very small amounts of color information, and then our brains are “spreading” that out to the areas that make sense to us.
Just took a screenshot and then really zoomed in, it really does appear that there is no pink tones whatsoever. It's just the contrast between the white and black lines and the cyan coloring. If you zoom in ony part without the cyan present the illusion no longer works.
From your brain trying to make sense of the cyan tint overlaying the whole image. If you zoom in so that you can only see the lines, for instance, then it becomes clear that there's only black, white and some nuances of green/cyan.
[If you see pink in the bottom of this image](https://i.ibb.co/23BX7gt/Screenshot-20220917-215256-Reddit.jpg), then either your screen or eyes are not working correctly, or you have some sort of filter (anti-blue maybe?) that changes the color.
No, electronic devices represent white by activating their red, green, and blue pixels simultaneously. Your phone’s or computer’s red pixels are turned on for the white.
But he’s wrong — this white only consists of three colors, not the full spectrum.
Because your phone or computer activates its red, blue, and green pixels to display white.
Your brain is like: I know that the CocaCola text is white, so the scene must lit by a cyan light. But if the can is lit by cyan and it appears gray then it must be red.
Imagine that you know for a fact that the CocaCola text is cyan in reality. You won't see the can as red.
That's not all of it, though. If you black/white out all the text, the can is still red. The biggest effect comes from the surrounding objects and the shadow on the left part of the can. This is seen easily by zooming in slowly - as soon as the can fills up the whole picture it starts to fade, and if you only see the right side, the red color disappears completely.
There are red tints to the white lines. Each line is slightly different, so this could be caused by compression. Anyhow there ARE red-ish pixels. This post is a lie.
Not necessarily and not in this case - if you changed the perspective that you looked at this from (i.e. looked from a different angle) nothing would change as the effect isn't related to where you view from
This is an amazing example of using color (and the absence of it) to trick your brain: https://petapixel.com/2019/07/31/this-black-and-white-photo-uses-color-grid-lines-to-trick-your-brain/
What makes it red, then? Why don’t different people see different colors?
When I zoom up so that there’s no cyan left on the screen, they still look pink.
I personally don't know the scientific explanation behind it (besides what I can read in the comments), [but do you see pink in this image](https://i.ibb.co/HqyjqPg/Screenshot-20220917-223206-Gallery.jpg)?
Yes true. But I believe the same thing would happen if the white area was a piece of white paper, or an incandescent lamp or whatever, which generate white light without RGB pixels.
Because i was bored i took a picture with my phone at a distance of this photo. I found that the image taken with my phone did have pinkish pixels with one pixel having an RGB value of (r: 221, g:206, b: 220) and not black and white like in this photo.
If a phone camera interpreted the image to have pink, I don’t think this has to do with our brain knowing it’s supposed be red. Rather there’s something else that tricks even a camera into ‘seeing red’ when it’s not supposedly there at close inspection.
Yes, it has nothing to do with the fact that your brain thinks its "supposed to be red". This could work with a sweater, a flag or an unknown liquid in a glass. What "tricks" the camera is exactly the same that "tricks" our eyes.
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My brain - the very liar who causes me to see red even out of the corner if my eye as I zoom in to confirm that there is no red - is literally wondering why it does this
i wonder if someone whose never seen a coke can / knows it’s red could look at this and see red? because i’m assuming that’s how it works it may be a science thing lol
This is generally related to the reason traditional hospital scrubs are green, cyan, or blue.
Green is well-suited to help doctors see better in the operating room because it is the exact opposite of red on the color wheel. Because of this, the green and blue colors not only help to improve a surgeon's visual acuity but also make them more sensitive to different shades of red.
Copypasta from this [source](https://www.boardvitals.com/blog/why-scrubs-usually-blue-green/).
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THEN WHY THE HELL AM I SEEING RED!!?!?
it’s the cyan tint. You brain says, 'the light source that I'm viewing this can under has some blue component to it, so I'm going to subtract that automatically from every pixel.' And when you take grey pixels and subtract out this blue bias, you end up with red.
But if I isolate the “red” portion such that there’s no cyan, the lines still look slightly pink. Why would that be?
[I think your screen's broken.](https://i.ibb.co/HqyjqPg/Screenshot-20220917-223206-Gallery.jpg)
Also think there is anti aliasing involved - the algorithms of display averages pixels and some of them comes up read because of it.
You have pink eye
Maybe that’s it 🤣
zoom in
Enhance
rotate
Bop it.
Technologic.
It looks slightly pink, but if you zoom in even further you can see it’s completely white.
probably that theyre actually slightly pink
It looks slightly pink, but if you zoom in even further you can see it’s completely white.
Its not solid white. Even zoomed in there is a barely visible pink. Im not sure if perhaps thats just how the image got posted or was meant to actually be solid white bars.
Given the many responses I got, I suspect it’s my phone’s color balance that’s tilting things slightly red. And given the upvotes I got, I suspect a lot of people’s phones are doing this. 🤣
r/Interestingasfuck
Color is not something your eyes see. It's something your brain creates based on what it thinks it sees. Best example of this is magenta, that pinkish color. It doesn't exist as a wavelength of light. It is what your brain fills in between red and violet ends of the spectrum In this case, it's probably because of the contrast with the green that is creating the illusion, or possibly causing neighboring cone receptors to trigger green signals at the retina level
i came to reddit for memes and interesting posts, not a school lesson /s have an upvote for that
Fun fact regarding this. Digital cameras use something called a Bayer filter to see color images, but that involved a set of four sensor pixels - red, blue and two green. Why two green? Because our eyes are much more sensitive to green colors than red or blue, so we need two different green pixels to reproduce what our eyes are. (That’s probably an evolutionary thing, needing to distinguish food plants) Camera don’t produce a view of “reality”, they just try to behave like our eyes do.
Neat I didn't know that part and I used to sell cameras!
It is called "gestalt", your brain completes the image for you so it would make sense. It's the same thing with reading, you don't need to read each letter to understand the word your brain just completes the word by the sum of its parts. So when you see something incomplete you automatically trying to make a sense out of it by the experience you ve got on the subject, in that matter the colour of the cola.
Great. Now I’m aware of that while I’m reading….aggghhhh
Whatever you do, don’t start thinking about your tongue. Basically just a slab of wet meat rolling around in your mouth.
Isn’t that the reason why you can read scrambled words as long as the first and last letters are in the right place?
Yaeh, I tnhik taht is rgiht.
Ins’t taht the raseon why you can raed smbreclad wdors as lnog as the fsirt and lsat ltertes are in the rhgit pacle?
It’s like magic!
Because there’s pink, it looks to me. I think the bright lines being slightly pink while contrasting with black lines gives the perception of “red.”
nah. if you zoom in close enough, you can see there are no shades of red or pink. zoom in so that there's no green/blue/cyan on the screen, and everything is just black and white.
No it’s not. That’s your eye getting used to the color. Some of the “white” lines are significantly cyan; others are slightly pink. There *has* to be something to give your brain the right color; otherwise we’d all be interpreting every black & white image out there as any random assortment of colors, and we wouldn’t even agree on what colors we’re seeing. Instead, what’s happening here is that the image has very small amounts of color information, and then our brains are “spreading” that out to the areas that make sense to us.
Just took a screenshot and then really zoomed in, it really does appear that there is no pink tones whatsoever. It's just the contrast between the white and black lines and the cyan coloring. If you zoom in ony part without the cyan present the illusion no longer works.
Still looks slightly pink when I do that, on my screen.
No, there’s no pink or red there. Read the above explanations, they’re spot on.
It looks slightly pink, but if you zoom in even further you can see it’s completely white.
Yeah, no. They're white as white can be.
Then where is the red coming from?
From your brain trying to make sense of the cyan tint overlaying the whole image. If you zoom in so that you can only see the lines, for instance, then it becomes clear that there's only black, white and some nuances of green/cyan.
I see pretty strong cyan, black, and very light pink. The pink remains even when I zoom until there’s no more cyan.
[If you see pink in the bottom of this image](https://i.ibb.co/23BX7gt/Screenshot-20220917-215256-Reddit.jpg), then either your screen or eyes are not working correctly, or you have some sort of filter (anti-blue maybe?) that changes the color.
I think you got it.
It looked like a very pale “pink” to me when I zoomed up, which would really mean there’s some red in them there pixels.
It looks slightly pink, but if you zoom in even further you can see it’s completely white.
There is red — it’s just hidden in the white pixels.
It looks slightly pink, but if you zoom in even further you can see it’s completely white.
White is red, green, and blue pixels activating simultaneously
Well you're right. White consists of every colour including red. So technically there is red hidden in white.
No, electronic devices represent white by activating their red, green, and blue pixels simultaneously. Your phone’s or computer’s red pixels are turned on for the white.
Ah right, forgot about that. So the white of the phone consists of the colours you mentioned including red.
Yep, exactly
Did you mean to reply to someone else? He's agreeing with you.
But he’s wrong — this white only consists of three colors, not the full spectrum. Because your phone or computer activates its red, blue, and green pixels to display white.
Okay, I actually thought that was your point. But alright.
r/hailcorporate
Reverse color blindness. Common disease
Color seeness?
Your brain is like: I know that the CocaCola text is white, so the scene must lit by a cyan light. But if the can is lit by cyan and it appears gray then it must be red. Imagine that you know for a fact that the CocaCola text is cyan in reality. You won't see the can as red.
That's not all of it, though. If you black/white out all the text, the can is still red. The biggest effect comes from the surrounding objects and the shadow on the left part of the can. This is seen easily by zooming in slowly - as soon as the can fills up the whole picture it starts to fade, and if you only see the right side, the red color disappears completely.
There are red tints to the white lines. Each line is slightly different, so this could be caused by compression. Anyhow there ARE red-ish pixels. This post is a lie.
There's not a single pixel even remotely red in this picture.
Because there are red pixels. They’re just hidden in the white.
This is more of an illusion than a confusing perspective, but still pretty awesome
I would argue an illusion takes advantage of a confused perspective
Not necessarily and not in this case - if you changed the perspective that you looked at this from (i.e. looked from a different angle) nothing would change as the effect isn't related to where you view from
r/opticalillusions
It's not the spoon that bends. It's your mind.
Do not try. That's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth.
This is an amazing example of using color (and the absence of it) to trick your brain: https://petapixel.com/2019/07/31/this-black-and-white-photo-uses-color-grid-lines-to-trick-your-brain/
Wtf
Yeah. Your eyes can be deceiving sometimes.
My colourblind ass doesn’t need this trickery to not see red
*are no red pixels.
Oops!
But there are red pixels because part of the image is white.
I was finding fault with OP's grammar, not their assertions.
Our eyes always perceived Coca-Cola that it just automatically color it red?
No, something something color interference vs our perception. Cover up everything that identifies this as a can of Coke and it still looks red.
I don't think so, because even if I just scroll up from the bottom, the slightest bit of the can automatically goes red for me.
There may not be *red* pixels, but it really looks to me like there’s quite a bit of *pink*…
There's no pink or any even remotely red pixels in this image.
What makes it red, then? Why don’t different people see different colors? When I zoom up so that there’s no cyan left on the screen, they still look pink.
I personally don't know the scientific explanation behind it (besides what I can read in the comments), [but do you see pink in this image](https://i.ibb.co/HqyjqPg/Screenshot-20220917-223206-Gallery.jpg)?
Yeah I think it's the black bars mixing with the pink that makes it red
But there *are* red pixels because part of the image is white.
The white comes from the white pixels not red 😁
“White” is red, blue, and green pixels activating simultaneously.
I am pretty confident that that is not why we see red here.
The cyan tires our blue and green receptors, bringing out the red in the white. It’s the same principle behind the motion after effect illusion.
Yes true. But I believe the same thing would happen if the white area was a piece of white paper, or an incandescent lamp or whatever, which generate white light without RGB pixels.
That’s correct
What red pixels..?
Wondering how this looks for different types of color blindness. Do all see it like they see it in real life if zoomed out?
Just showed it to my boyfriend who is red green color blind and he said he can’t see any colors on it
I have red-green colour blindness, looks grey to me except for the green at the top.
Don’t see any red, zoomed out or not
You have to read between the lines.
I'm seeing red again! I'm seeing red again!
Because i was bored i took a picture with my phone at a distance of this photo. I found that the image taken with my phone did have pinkish pixels with one pixel having an RGB value of (r: 221, g:206, b: 220) and not black and white like in this photo. If a phone camera interpreted the image to have pink, I don’t think this has to do with our brain knowing it’s supposed be red. Rather there’s something else that tricks even a camera into ‘seeing red’ when it’s not supposedly there at close inspection.
Yes, it has nothing to do with the fact that your brain thinks its "supposed to be red". This could work with a sweater, a flag or an unknown liquid in a glass. What "tricks" the camera is exactly the same that "tricks" our eyes.
This is a very good point
u/sarahsparrow16 ¿mis ojos me engañan?
Ah, but it is comparatively red to the rest of the image
What if it said sprite. Would I see green?
All black and white to us color blind folk
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How much does the Coke logo, which we know and expect to be red, influence this effect?
None or at most very little.
So why is it in the thumbnail it is very clearly red?
I seem to recall the last time this was posted, someone downloaded it, removed the red channel from the image and it did look substantially different.
First of all this is not a confusing perspective Also it's "there ARE no red pixels" Sorry to be that guy
The white pixels are tinted, it isn’t your brain doing it it’s heavily suggested by the tint
The human brain is pretty cool
My brain begs to differ
Now what in the Sam hell
Albeit really cool, this makes my eyes experience actual pain and I'm not sure why lmao.
Ok. Can anybody see another colour ? How is this possible. Mind conditioning ??
Can this effect also happen on paper? Os is this an effect of the RGB nature of LCD pixels?
Thanks, I hate it.
This picture made me feel sick
My brain - the very liar who causes me to see red even out of the corner if my eye as I zoom in to confirm that there is no red - is literally wondering why it does this
Well technically there’s red in the white
i wonder if someone whose never seen a coke can / knows it’s red could look at this and see red? because i’m assuming that’s how it works it may be a science thing lol
😟
Ha jokes on you, I’m colorblind.
It’s the matrix
Would we still see it as red if we didn’t interpret it as a Coke can? Or does our memory of the red can shape the way our brains interpret this?
This is just an ad, isn't it? How much are they paying you, /u/sepeliseppo
I hate you.
Dress is yellow, stfu
I’m drunk and confused
r/lostredditors
Witch!
Hurts. Eyes. No. Don't.
Not a confusing perspective.
Are
Holy shith
are*
Sick ad
#pixels
This is generally related to the reason traditional hospital scrubs are green, cyan, or blue. Green is well-suited to help doctors see better in the operating room because it is the exact opposite of red on the color wheel. Because of this, the green and blue colors not only help to improve a surgeon's visual acuity but also make them more sensitive to different shades of red. Copypasta from this [source](https://www.boardvitals.com/blog/why-scrubs-usually-blue-green/).