On the left side of the painting are the hyacinths, two small colorful bunches of flowers, one blue and the other red. ... The bright yellow flowers flow from right to left, naturally drawing the viewer's eye 1 toward the smaller flowers on the left, thus creating asymmetrical balance. ... For example, the yellow flowers are concentrated in a small area that stretches all the way across the painting; therefore, instead of concentrating the brightest color in one area, Nolde has arranged the flowers in a way that the yellow flowers first catch one's attention and then draws the ...
As an example a large red object in a London street scene might be 'bound' as a bus, although another individual might favor another interpretation. ... Most recently [Goldfarb & Triesman 2010] she has considered the effects of incongruent visual cues to show that effects such as having the word 'blue' colored in red will slow perception and may also lead to, firstly, complete rejection or, less likely correction of the reported to avoid the incongruent. ... That seems natural enough given the physical details of the eye. ... Treisman and her colleagues debated th...
The dictionary definition of colour describes the phenomena as a sensation produced on the eye by rays of light when resolved into different wavelengths, as by a prism, selective reflection, etc.1 ; inferring that the perception of colour is produced by a sensation' caused by differing wavelengths of light acting on the eye rather than colour being a property inherent in the object being viewed. ... Our view is of a bricolage of these coloured objects and our language refers to these objects in a way which imparts the idea of colour as being an integral primary attribute to these object...
Human eyes only have rods in the periphery of the eye which take around thirty minutes to become adapted to the dark. ... When the sun is setting the colours across the sky are shades of red. Red is the only colour that does not photo bleach the rods in the eye. ...
He reflects on his experiences, stating "a dream in which he was going through strange avenues of an astonishing city, with green and red lights that burned without fire or smoke, an enormous metal insect that whirred away between his legs". ... The emotions he experiences in the dream are manifested in his 'reality' through physical action and reactions, which hints to the reader and the protagonist that there is something more meaningful to this dream than what first meets the eye. ... Her initial prejudice towards asylum seekers is a primary focus to highlight her proce...
For Elaine, whenever her family sits down to a nice steak dinner, she doesn't just taste the feast set before her, she sees a gorgeous palette of colors sweeping across her mind's eye. ... The person who is affected with this type of synesthesia will never change which letter is associated with what color for their entire lives; "A" will forever be "red" (Specter, 2009). ...
For example, the tabletop, although it appears to be perfectly square and flat to the naked eye, might on closer examination prove not to be so: the corners might not be at exact right angles, and it might be discovered that, when viewed through a microscope, the table surface is in fact quite bumpy and not exactly flat. ... This is similar to the fact that we cannot imagine any colour outside of the colour spectrum; although we can mix up colours to make a colour that we have never seen before, it would still be a colour essentially composed of a mixture of red, blue or yellow. ...