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[-] Oka@sopuli.xyz 306 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

[-] Aermis@lemmy.world 76 points 4 months ago

Can you do that and post it?

[-] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 265 points 4 months ago

Checkmate, atheists.

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 105 points 4 months ago

Well color me impressed.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 47 points 4 months ago

Colored impressed; appears pink.

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 9 points 4 months ago

fun fact: pink isn't a real color.

[-] Trincapinones@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 months ago

What??

[-] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 27 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.

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 7 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

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

[-] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 4 points 4 months ago

And so is brown.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 4 months ago

Pink is actually GREEN!

[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 months ago

Orange is the new black

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

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

[-] TheHottub@lemmy.world 31 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

[-] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

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

[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

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

[-] widw@ani.social 37 points 4 months ago

He's right.

[-] Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago

You guys never cease to amaze me.

[-] TassieTosser@aussie.zone 5 points 4 months ago

Huh, it shows up as black to me.

[-] june@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 months ago

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

[-] 11111one11111@lemmy.world 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

[-] jenny_ball@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

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

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago

yes, obviously

[-] Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 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.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 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.