Gray or Pink: Why We See Colors Differently. The new optical illusion is crazy: controversy about the color of sneakers flared up on the network Dispute about the colors of sneakers white-pink or

Which seemed to some to be white and gold, and to others - blue and black, as a new argument began on social networks. Briton Nicole Coulthard posted in Facebook a photo of Vans sneakers and said that she and her friend see the color of the shoes differently: one of the sneakers was gray with turquoise laces, and the other was pink and white.

In the editorial office of The Village, ten people voted for gray, and only three saw pink. Some had changed the color of their shoes by the end of the day. In fact, the sneakers turned out to be pink.

To end the controversy, we talked with an ophthalmologist, psychologist and artist and figured out why people see colors differently and what affects it.

Svetlana Snytko

general Director of the Center for Therapeutic Ophthalmology, ophthalmologist

The reason for the different perception of colors is the violation of color vision. These violations can be established using Rabkin tables . Color perception depends on the visual pigment, this indicator is most often congenital, but it can also be acquired - after injury or neuritis.

Rabkin's polychromatic tables are used to detect color blindness. According to the degree of color perception, they are distinguished: trichromants (norm), protoanopes (people with impaired perception in the red spectrum) and deuteranopes (people with impaired green color perception).

Sergey Klyuchnikov

psychologist, director of the center for practical psychology

The perception of color is influenced by living conditions, the state of a person at the moment, professional training and the general condition of the organs of vision. Physiological causes include visual impairments such as color blindness and situational mood. In a gloomy mood, a person reacts to dark shades, and in a positive mood, the picture for him becomes sunny and cleaner.

Sophistication in identifying colors also plays a role. This aspect can be related to natural conditions or special training. Northern peoples who live in Chukotka or Alaska distinguish much more colors of snow, since the success of hunting and survival depends on this. Professional education also plays a role: artists have a sharper palette of perception.

It is enough for an ordinary person to see approximately, and he already draws a conclusion about the picture. Due to the visual culture that has now fallen upon us, the array of color information, people stop recognizing shades, they rather define them by form. Color has ceased to be an indicator in our conditions.

Mikhail Levin

artist, curator of the Pre-foundation Art & Design and Contemporary Art programs at the British Higher School of Art and Design

From the point of view of the emotional perception of color, it is influenced by the cultural background, and social status, and the well-mannered vision of color. People associated with creative activities are distinguished by the observation of flowers. When a person constantly comes into contact with this, then he sees the color more sensitively and deeper, and places emphasis more strongly.

In order for the color to be perceived more calmly or, conversely, to cause an emotional outburst, a certain harmony of colors is created. And this combination can just affect perception. The same red can be perceived differently depending on the color around it. There are scientific works by Joseph Albert on the tools of influencing the perception of colors.

Perception also differs from conditions, place. That is why artists always work in daylight - colors are perceived better in their natural environment.

These experiments with a dress, sneakers look like some kind of illusory trick. I think this happens because the image is shown on a digital medium. The human eye reacts differently to the picture on the screen. There are settings that you can use to adjust the color rendition. Someone is more suitable when the color is more saturated, and for someone the high contrast begins to hurt the eye.

Again, about cultural perception: you can draw a parallel with. A riot of color is typical for a person brought up in Japanese culture, but not for a European. Many of my students complain about this exhibition as a painful experience: some even get headaches. It's just that we are not used to perceive such an intensity of colors.

Tests

More than two years have passed since the strange color dress appeared on the Internet, which caused a huge amount of controversy and gossip.

And now, users of the world wide web are arguing about what color this pair of sneakers is.

Initially, a snapshot with sneakers was posted on his Twitter page by one of the users, then the photo spread all over the Internet.

Optical illusion

So take a look at this photo. What color are the sneakers?

Some claim that the picture shows the sneakers in gray with blue (or menthol) laces. Others claim that this is a pink pair of shoes with white laces.

Briton Nicole Coulthard (Nicole Coulthard) put on public display a photo of Vans sneakers, which was sent to her by one of her friends.

The catch is that she still can't figure out what color these sneakers are - gray with mint-blue laces or pinkish with white ones.

The girl herself claims that the shoes are pink. However, she wanted to know the opinion of Facebook users. Nicole posted a photo and asked what people think of her.

"Guys, what do you see in the photo? Please confirm that the color of the sneakers is pink and white," Nicole signed the photo.

The girl said that her friend bought shoes some time ago and sent a photo to her mother. To which she confidently declared that "blue suits her."

Optical illusion trick

"My friend retorted that the sneakers are pink. But when I looked closely at the photo, I also saw that they were blue. How can this be? After all, she definitely bought pink!" - Nicole continues her story.

UK girl Nicole Coulthard posted on Facebook a photo of Vans sneakers sent to her by a friend. She said that she could not decide what color these shoes are - gray with turquoise laces or pinkish with white, writes Metro.

Nicole is convinced that the sneakers are pink, so she asked for advice from users of the social network.

"Girls, what do you see? Please tell me it's pink and white," Nicole wrote.

She also noted that her friend bought the shoes a few weeks ago and sent a photo to her mom. The woman replied that "blue suits her."

"My friend told my mother that they are pink. But when she looked at the photo, she also saw a turquoise color. But she bought pink!" - said Nicole.

After the publication of the photo on the Web, what color are these sneakers.

It is worth noting that this is far from the first controversy over the illusion of color - in March, Akiyoshi Kitaoka, professor of psychology at Ritsumeikan University in Japan, posted a photo of a strawberry brownie.

And with strawberries, in turn, she continued the history of the dress, caused passionate controversy in social networks. And such optical illusions are based on the same property - the constant of color perception.