Blueberry comments on Blue- and Yellow-Tinted Choices - Less Wrong

49 Post author: Yvain 13 May 2010 10:35PM

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Comment author: Blueberry 15 May 2010 07:44:07PM 1 point [-]

I think the tops of the cubes in the 3D picture look brighter because of the "shadow". Your visual system is imagining a light source coming from the upper right. There's no such effect in the 2D picture.

Comment author: mattnewport 15 May 2010 08:13:52PM 0 points [-]

Yes, I think this is part of what is happening. I also think my perception of less apparent 'yellowness' in the grey tiles in the non-3D version is due to there being fewer cues to lead the visual system to conclude that there is a blue light illuminating the scene.