• NaibofTabr
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    236 months ago

    Technically false. Digital images are made up of pixels like this:

    which reproduce colors by adjusting the intensity of the red, green and blue light in each pixel. If nothing else, every white pixel in the image contains a full-brightness red segment.

  • @Kbobabob@lemmy.world
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    216 months ago

    Some of that white is not as white as the others. There’s definitely a reddish tone of you zoom in.

    • @ch00f@lemmy.world
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      46 months ago

      Yeah probably jpeg compression muddying it up. That combined with another comment about white pixels containing red makes me think that this illusion was intended to be printed out.

    • lad
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      16 months ago

      It’s just less teal spots, not much redder, especially not as .uch as perceived

      First two are from the centre, the last is not

  • HEXN3T
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    46 months ago

    I see a faint red briefly, then it goes away.

    • Ogmios
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      56 months ago

      Your brain isn’t broken, it’s just a really bad attempt at viral marketing.

      • lad
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        16 months ago

        I’d say it’s rather an indicator of the person who’s had too much exposure to the previous marketing. Also neurodivergence may work against this illusion the way it breaks some of the others