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Exhibits

  • Adapting to Color exhibit

Adapting to Color

Change your perception of color by flooding your eyes with colored light.

Where:   Bechtel Gallery 3: Seeing & Listening
Exhibit Developers:   Richard O. Brown and Ulrika Andersson, 2001
Subjects:
Phenomena: Color
Keywords: eyes
Aliases: Red-Green Goggles
Collections: Colorfest, Seeing

More to explore

Science activity demonstrating color afterimage phenomenon
Bird in a Cage
Stare at one color—but see another.
Science activity that demonstrates an optical illusion
Hole in Your Hand
What happened to your whole hand?
Science activity that demonstrates lateral inhibition in visual perception
Lateral Inhibition
Which is in control, your eyes or your brain?
Science activity that demonstrates a visual illusion
Overlapping Spots
Make a bright spot brighter.

Related exhibits
Disagreeing About Color

Color is in the eye of the beholder.

Bird in a Cage

When your eyes adapt to color, you can see things that aren’t really there.

Monochromatic Room

Where did all the colors go?
Benham's Disk
The colors you see here are all in your head.