#kim beil

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THERE IS SOMETHING MISSING YOU DON'T REMEMBER; HOLE THEORY.

kim beil // unknown // jean baudrillard // unknown // second law of holes, wikipedia // thomasin frances

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Edwin H. Land, “Experiments in Color Vision”. Scientific American. Vol. 200, No. 5 (May 1959), pp. 84-99 (16 pages)

Via New Look, Same Great Look by Kim Beil:

“Land’s research undertaken in the mid-1950s first showed that the eye can perceive color in images that are, by other measurements, monochromatic. Land and his team made two monochromatic still lifes of colored scientific equipment: one through a filter that allowed the passage only of long wavelengths (red filter) and the other for short wavelengths (green filter). They then projected the pair of monochromatic transparencies onto a screen and placed a red filter over the projector’s beam. Classical theories would suggest that the resulting image should contain only shades of pink and red. However, viewers discerned varied colors in the scene, which included multicolored pigments in vials and scientific instruments on a table. The colored objects were perceived as if in full color. Color film and other measurement systems, such as spectrometers, recognized only the shades of red in the image, but the visual cortex responded to the differences in wavelength and reconstructed color in the scene by comparison. (Ironically, when this research was published in Scientific American in 1959, Land had to provide artificially colored photographs that reconstructed what the human observers saw, since photographs couldn’t capture the images as perceived.)”