How to see imaginary colors
I will now show you a way to see colors that cannot exist in nature. To do this I'm going to hack your brain, but don't worry, you won't feel a thing, and it doesn't involve taking any controlled substance. Ready? Ok, say you want to see a green more intense than any green that has ever existed on the face of earth(and in fact the universe). Stare at the top right dot (in the magenta field) and count to fifty. Try not to move your eyes too much.Then look very quickly at the dot in the green field. And there you have it. A shade of green you have never seen before, and will only see again in this or a similar test. What's happening? When you stare at any color for a while, you're eye's sensitivity to it decreases, and the sensitivity to the complemetn (i.e. opposite, in a sense which trascends the point of this post). Well to make a long story short, each row has one of the Red-Green-Blue primaries on the left, and its complementary color on the right. When ...