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Re:Was Vincent van Gogh color blind? (2012) by mort96 on Sunday September 04, 2022 @07:12AM (#32711822)
Yeah, sorry about the resizing and shifting. The two images in the article are different sizes (and aspect ratios!), and I couldn't find a good way to fix it up in gimp without either making everything blurry (cubic interpolation) or cutting out rows and columns (nearest neighbor interpolation).

Your description of how you see colors morphing once they're described is interesting! The brain definitely does a whole lot of complex visual processing which we don't notice, such as filtering out the big hole in your retina which nerves go through, and retroactively replacing the memory of your eyes moving with what you see after they've moved. And your peripheral vision is almost entirely grayscale, yet the brain fills in the colors it expects to be there so it doesn't feel grayscale. It doesn't surprise me that when color information is missing due to color blindness, it will fill in the missing color information from other sources.

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