Color Bleeding and Illusory Borders

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Title Color Bleeding and Illusory Borders
Description The colors of the lines in this diagram spread into illusory disks when the colors of the lines and the background are similar in luminance. The colors bleed into a surface defined by illusory borders most readily when there is little luminance contrast between the color and the background.
Subject Optical Art
Form diagram
Classes ART 3010: The Language of Color
Source Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing, by Margaret Livingstone. Abrams, New York, 2002.
Work ID 11100
Rights Digital Image Copyright University of Utah
ARK ark:/87278/s62c28zj
Setname uu_aah_art
ID 36508
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s62c28zj
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