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  2. Entoptic phenomenon - Wikipedia

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    A phenomenon that could be entoptical if the eyelashes are considered to be part of the eye is seeing light diffracted through the eyelashes. The phenomenon appears as one or more light disks crossed by dark blurry lines (the shadows of the lashes), each having fringes of spectral colour.

  3. Visual snow syndrome - Wikipedia

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    In the dark, the rod photoreceptors, which are responsible for the perception of light in low light, are mainly activated, but they are not able to distinguish details or colors. This is why in dim light we often see the world blurred and grainy, without clear contours.

  4. List of optical illusions - Wikipedia

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    Color constancy: Colour constancy is an example of subjective constancy and a feature of the human color perception system which ensures that the perceived color of objects remains relatively constant under varying illumination conditions. A green apple for instance looks green to us at midday, when the main illumination is white sunlight, and ...

  5. While dark scenes are usually due to the filmmaker’s vision, there are several factors both at movie theaters and when viewing at home that will Don’t Adjust the Brightness: Here’s Why TV ...

  6. Shadow - Wikipedia

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    A shadow is a dark area on a surface where light from a light source is blocked by an object. In contrast, shade occupies the three-dimensional volume behind an object with light in front of it. The cross section of a shadow is a two- dimensional silhouette , or a reverse projection of the object blocking the light.

  7. Theory of Colours - Wikipedia

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    Since the colour phenomenon relies on the adjacency of light and dark, there are two ways to produce a spectrum: with a light beam in a dark room, and with a dark beam (i.e., a shadow) in a light room. Goethe recorded the sequence of colours projected at various distances from a prism for both cases (see Plate IV, Theory of Colours). In both ...

  8. Eigengrau - Wikipedia

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    An example of noise observed in the dark An example of noise observed in the dark #2. Eigengrau (German for "intrinsic gray"; pronounced [ˈʔaɪ̯gŋ̍ˌgʁaʊ̯] ⓘ), also called Eigenlicht (Dutch and German for "intrinsic light"), dark light, or brain gray, is the uniform dark gray background color that many people report seeing in the ...

  9. Checker shadow illusion - Wikipedia

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    The image depicts a checkerboard with light and dark squares, partly shadowed by another object. The optical illusion is that the area labeled A appears to be a darker color than the area labeled B. However, within the context of the two-dimensional image, they are of identical brightness, i.e., they would be printed with identical mixtures of ...