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Nonsense. My phone screen uses red, green, and blue to make up each pixel. The white pixels have their red component all the way at full brightness. Therefore there is a lot of red in the picture.

You could also see this by opening up the image and looking at the red channel which would not be completely black.

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Texts on computers is made this way, so use a magnifying glass on black white text in a word document (for example) and you’ll see lots of colors. zoom in using the computer and you will still just see black/white.

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So that’s why I can’t print greyscale documents when my yellow ink is too low!

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Ha ha nah thats because all (color) printers also print a unique pattern with yellow, so that anything from your printer can be traced back to it

Can plz anyone find a link (am at home with wrecked right arm)?

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I just tried printing this image but it says my magenta is too low 🤔

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It’s actually all just white light at different wavelengths, which tricks your brain into seeing different “colours”.

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no actually it’s white light with different phase shifts and because the earth is flat, the surface temperature of the sun tricks your brain into thinking it is red

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Making your brain do exactly what it’s supposed to do is a weird way is “tricking” it.

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White light is the combination of all those wavelengths. It is only the combination that makes it “white” in exactly the same way that a smaller range of wavelengths are “red” or “blue”.

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The “white” is actually very pale pink. At least on my phone screen

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When I zoom in on my phone, it’s absolutely white

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Must be hardware variant

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I had that issue on an old phone, could very well be hardware variance.

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i used a colour picker and it’s all white and shades of gray.

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My phone makes it pink too. But you can still see some effective difference when zooming in/out.

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It’s not marketing, just colour theory. The same idea has been used by painters for ages.

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It is when you use cova cola instead of, lolipop, santa, flag, flower or some other red object.

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That’s so weird. You can stare at a pixel and go “yep that’s red”. Zoom in, still red. Zoom more, BOOM IT’S BLACK!

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Why is my brain making the train stripes red? I don’t know what color they normally are, which I assumed was the mechanism behind the coke can illusion.

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Nah, it’s still colour theory. Now it’s yellow, magic.

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Jokes on you I zoomed in and out on the original and now the can appears white no matter what.

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As a video editor, fuck Adobe lol

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Its the second Coca Cola TM post ive seen since I joined lemmy.

The other one was yesterday.

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This site has no protection against marketing aside from moderator action (and in this case OP is a mod). I’m not certain OP chose a coke can for that image or whether this was simply the first version of that illusion that OP has seen

I wonder if prolific posters are approached by advertisers. Is Lemmy big enough for them to bother?

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Hm… when I glance at it, yeah I see the white is very very light pink. But once I focus on the details, I see no trace of red.

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I don’t even see that. My brain must be broken.

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same… just white for me. maybe because I read the title first. idk

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