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Re:The 12-bit rainbow palette by IIAOPSW on Saturday November 19, 2022 @08:10AM (#33669736)
I have a pet theory that certain high spatial frequencies bleed into being perceived a colors anyway. The reason being that the red, green, and blue cones in the retina each have a different amount of space between them but are otherwise organized in the same pattern. Thus if the brain sees something with the same spacing as the blue cones, its going to assume that's caused by it being a blue object (rather than a black/white object which happened to have the same spatial freq as the blue cells). You seem to know the literature here, is there anything validating or invalidating my pet theory?
Re:The 12-bit rainbow palette by hunter2_ on Saturday November 19, 2022 @10:17AM (#33670854)
I'm no expert, but that sounds a lot like how halftone and dithering work.
Re:The 12-bit rainbow palette by nyanpasu64 on Saturday November 19, 2022 @10:50AM (#33671206)
I've never noticed such happening by eyes, but I've definitely seen distant ocean reflections (tiny randomly-shifting specks of light) being misinterpreted as colors by Bayer matrix camera sensors.
Re:The 12-bit rainbow palette by IIAOPSW on Saturday November 19, 2022 @12:46PM (#33672546)
full disclosure, this pet theory is entirely based on observations of people on LSD. High frequency spatial patterns consistently get distorted in colorful ways.
Re:The 12-bit rainbow palette by photoGrant on Saturday November 19, 2022 @01:03PM (#33672758)
This is called metameric failure