Wednesday 11 March 2009

Luminance and equiluminance




The yellow and grey areas, easily distinguished in the colored image, cannot be distinguished in the black and white image. The yellow and gray areas have been painted with the same luminance or brightness

We distinguish adjacent objects if they have different levels of brightness. Our brains cannot position the yellow and gray areas accurately in the painting because they have the same brightness. That is the origin of the jittery motion we seem to see in the painting.

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