200 - Socks and Crocs (rebroadcast)
You Are Not So Smart
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The Color Consistency Mechanism
color constancy mechanisms what you're seeing is the end result of about a 30 step visual processing cascade and the bottom line is that two different people might do this processing differently. People who see more sunlight some morning purse people uh-huh larks are more likely to see the dress is white and gold let's say you were like me like a night owl you get up at like kind of noon and stay up at 10-4 m we have an in-genest light so you're gonna assume yellow light. What happens if you subtract yellow light from gray blue blue? The sky becomes bluish kindergarten color science and it matters everything else being equal.
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