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Color Deception

After-images, vibrating boundaries, and vanishing edges — the visual system's active distortions

Understand how sustained color exposure produces after-images, why complementary colors vibrate, and how equal lightness makes edges disappear.

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Color Deception

After-Image and Simultaneous Contrast

How sustained color exposure produces complementary color effects

Color Deception

Vibrating Boundaries and Vanishing Edges

How equal light intensity makes edges disappear, and high contrast makes them vibrate

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