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[–] [email protected] 274 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

Red is complimentary to cyan.

If the cyan were switched with yellow, the can would appear blue.

Also, it's not our brains creating the red, it's our eyes. They get exhausted of seeing the cyan and replace it with red.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Can you do that and post it?

[–] [email protected] 238 points 4 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 92 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well color me impressed.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Colored impressed; appears pink.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

fun fact: pink isn't a real color.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

What??

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago

It's a real color (as real as colors can be, which is not very). It's not a spectral color, you won't find it on the rainbow. It's actually the result of your red and blue cones being activated together.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

so this is based off my memory so there could be inaccuracies.
but what i've heard is that pink is the result of your brain registering a color because of specific color cones being activated but that your brain knows it's not actually that color and so it fills it in with pink.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Yeah, that's magenta, which looks like a pink, but it's not really.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

And so is brown.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Pink is actually GREEN!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Orange is the new black

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I believe you're thinking of Magenta. Pink is just red and white.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Grab your pitchforks gang. OP is selling us snake oil posts!!!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Now send this version (with the same unedited caption) to everyone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Strange, I see the OP picture as red, but this one as black & white.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He's right.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

You guys never cease to amaze me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

so it would appear red even if it was another can?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

yes, obviously

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Huh, it shows up as black to me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It depends on the size you are viewing it at. This works well on small screens but less well on large screens

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Let's hope it's the size of the image and not the responding user's revelation they are red green deficient lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

It's curious that the thumbnail actually has red values for those pixels, making me think they're cheating a bit with jpeg compression effects.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

So if the can shown wasn't Coke, but Sprite, it would still appear red? Or is it a mix of both? The eyes are confused and the brain fills in? Like when seeing pink as mentioned elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Your brain isn't filling in anything. Your blue and green receptors get oversaturated by the cyan, which causes your red receptors to be more sensitive to the white light than the other two, which is why it appears red. The effect happens in your eye, not in your brain.