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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