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  • Adapting to Color exhibit

Adapting to Color

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

Where:   This exhibit is not currently on view.
Exhibit Developers:   Richard O. Brown and Ulrika Andersson, 2001
Phenomena: Color
Keywords: eyes
Aliases: Red-Green Goggles
Collections: Colorfest, Seeing

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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.

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Where did all the colors go?

Benham's Disk
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The colors you see here are all in your head.