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Applet: Optical Illusions

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E+5+0 Standard color blindness tests and box of colored yarns. E+5+5 Red, green, blue light on three-sided rotatable pyramid. E+5+10 Newton's color disk: When rotated,appears white. E+5+15 Three-color projector for additive color mixing with arc lamp. E+5+20 Arc light spectrum recombined with concave mirror on lucite rod. E+5+25 Cyan, magenta, and yellow filters mix subtractively on OHP. E+5+30 Arc light spectrum with various filters. E+5+35 Rotating disk with black and white lines makes color illusion. E+5+40 Purkinje effect: At low intensity, blue is more visible than red. E+5+45 Two slides plus red and green light gives full color illusion. E+5+50 Applet: Color Vision E+5+60 Applet: Additive Color
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