Created by Stefan Van den Bergh in 2004
Chromatic Adaptation Created by Stefan Van den Bergh

Look at the cute little boy on the right side. He's shown in two different colors, right ? Now gaze at the left plus sign for 20 seconds, then look at the right plus sign. The image is looking normal now ! Ain't it incredible ? This phenomenon is called chromatic adaptation. Your eyes adjust themselves to the overload of colors. When you look at the right, your eyes are still filtering out the cyan and yellow. For a while.

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Blake jackson - Wednesday 16 February 2011

That just made my head hurt.

jordan watts - Wednesday 16 February 2011

Your eyes cant comprehend all the color so it looks the same

Jaylen Lewis - Wednesday 16 February 2011

i love how the picture does that, it's pretty cool.

maddie - Friday 25 February 2011

That was my science fair project !!!!!!

Lex - Tuesday 1 March 2011

I'm doing this for my science fair project wish me luck ;)

Kiara Wilson - Wednesday 2 March 2011

this is so cool!!

joshua - Saturday 9 April 2011

thats what im doing itz hard

Jake - Friday 29 April 2011

Thats Freaky...

Paul Moriarty - Wednesday 15 June 2011

Years ago, when monitors were green letters on a black background, first-time computer users would saturate their eyes with the two colors, by concentrating on the screen ... word processing, spreadsheet, etc. If they would then look a sheet of paper, or anything white, it would appear to be pink. This upset a lot of users, and I dubbed it "pink eye", and told them to relax, as the effect would disappear, never to be experienced again. The brain adapts to the phenomenon, and removes it.

brianna - Tuesday 18 October 2011

im so doing that for science fair its soo cool!

jay jay - Wednesday 19 October 2011

i think its really cool it just sometimes dosent work lol

Mary-Jane - Wednesday 2 November 2011

thats kewl lol

elizabeth ortega 4th :] - Tuesday 13 March 2012

that is so cool