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[–] 304 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

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    Colored impressed; appears pink.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    fun fact: pink isn't a real color.

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    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Huh, it shows up as black to me.

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