Bezold Effect

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Demonstration of the Bezold Effect. The red seems lighter combined with the white, and darker combined with the black.

The Bezold Effect is an optical illusion, named after a German professor of meteorology, Wilhelm von Bezold (1837-1907), who discovered that a colour may appear different depending on its relation to adjacent colours.

[edit] References

• Albers, J. Interaction of color: unabridged text and selected plates. 8. ed. Massachusetts: Yale University Press, 1978.
  
• Echo Productions. Wilhelm von Bezold. Virtual color museum. Available at: http://www.colorsystem.com/projekte/engl/22beze.htm.

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