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These words are written in the wrong colors.
Explore the Bezold effect, an optical illusion where colors blend, and discover how it influences fashion and fruit packaging.
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Key Takeaways
- The Bezold effect shows how our perception of color is influenced by surrounding colors.
- Optical illusions can be both scientifically intriguing and practically applied in industries like produce packaging.
- Prisms can both create and destroy rainbows by manipulating light colors.
- Innovative educational tools can combine learning with everyday activities, such as eating.
- Our awareness of reality is mediated by brain processes that interpret sensory input.
What the video covers
- The Bezold effect is an optical illusion where colors appear different due to overlaying colored patterns on colored backgrounds.
- All the words shown are actually written in the same color, demonstrating this effect.
- The exact mechanism of the Bezold effect is still not fully understood by science.
- The produce industry uses this effect in fruit packaging netting to make fruit appear more appealing.
- A prism included in the Curiosity box demonstrates how colors can be combined or separated, creating or destroying rainbows.
- The prism can merge rainbow colors into a single white line when positioned correctly.
- The video humorously addresses skepticism about optical illusions helping with practical tasks like math.
- The Curiosity box includes functional slide rule chopsticks, combining nourishment with mathematical tools.
- This combination of illusions and tools highlights the interplay between perception, science, and everyday life.
- The video blends educational content with humor and practical demonstrations.
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Or are they?
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They are.
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But not the wrong one you think.
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Believe it or not, they are all written in the same color.
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It's called the Bezold effect, and now thanks to the Curiosity box, it's called fashion.
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What I love about this illusion is that we have no idea how it works.
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What we do know is that when a colored pattern is overlaid on a colored background, our brains, or maybe just our eyes, assimilate the colors into their additive mixture.
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Right now, my foreheads are their same usual color, you would know that if you lived in reality.
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But you don't, your awareness is just a spectator at your brain's show.
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This phenomenon has been exploited for a long time by the produce business, the netting that fruit is packaged in.
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Is specifically formulated to take advantage of the Bezold effect to make the fruit look better.
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Speaking of adding colors, we also put a prism in the box, because not only can they make rainbows, they can also destroy them.
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Like the rainbow we put on the box.
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Positioned just right, the prism can combine its colors into a white line.
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Oh, I'm a chameleon who can't pick a color.
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Grow up, dude.
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Pull yourself together.
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Optically.
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Uh, but Michael, optical illusions won't help me do math while I'm eating.
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Why are you doubting me?
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The box also comes with two pairs of chopsticks that are also functional slide rules.
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So you can nourish your body with food and products, quotients, powers and roots.
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Now that's what I call.
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Bon appétit.
Topics:Bezold effectoptical illusioncolor perceptionVsauceCuriosity boxprismrainbowfruit packagingslide rule chopsticksscience education
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