Why There Are No Bluish-Yellow Crayons: The Forbidden Color Experiment
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In this video I see if you can see this forbidden color! I explain what a forbidden color is and then I actually show you that you cannot see it in a real experiment. I talk about why bluish yellow and reddish green is a color that no one can see. Then I show you a way that you may be able to see a new color that you have never before realized. Most people cannot see this color.
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2017: orange is the new black.
2018. Yellowish blue is the new White.
Yup
Lol so true
Lol
bmx4free haha ur sooo funny
Hahahahahahahahahha that's so funny
I name this new color: Headache!
I would prefer eye pain
I’d call it “If you keep making that face it’ll get stuck like that.”
I named it Bile since that is the color by brain perceives.
@@brook32123 too long
Yes
Doing the cross-eye thing, the best way I could describe it is that it looked like when you put two objects in the exact same space on a 3d modeler and it starts flashing both colors (called z-fighting) but never mixes. it was smoother than normal z-fighting though, it looked like the colors were swirling around each other
I crossed my eyes and saw a solid color in the mix. I did not get the "flashing" effect, and I did not really see any green, but I saw something like a sea-foam yellow? Pretty cool experiment!
I’m colorblind. Why am I watching this?
Because jesus
.. No comment
I am too and could see it. It felt weird.
I’m also colorblind and I didn’t saw it
😂LMFAO
It was like a grey made of yellow and blue. Sort of like shading a piece of paper with blue and yellow crayons. They don’t mix into green, and you still see both colors, but they appear muddy.
I was just thinking the same thing. It was a weird grey. No one else is saying this.
Like a grey cyan right?
exactly! you described it really well
now tell me why i was seeing a mix of pale magenta and green 🧍😭
I think I saw it, not sure to be honest, the blue and yellow were flashing in the middle, but sometimes a shade of weird gray appeared right in the middle, a little string just in the point where the two colors collides, and now every time I blink I see blue and yellow, I tried to see several times...
Maybe I try another time when my eyes aren't tired, 1 AM here now.
This is one of my main pet peeves. Artists keep perpetuating the myth that the primary colors are Red, Blue and Yellow. There is a difference between "Active colors" and "Passive colors". The active primary color set (projected light) is Red, Blue and Green. Active colors can be added together to create different colors. Passive colors (reflective surfaces, like paint or ink) absorb colors and can be combined to subtract color. So, the real color wheel for paint and printer ink is Magenta, Cyan and Yellow. I believe that artists from long ago saw Blue as being similar to Cyan and Red as being similar to Magenta and chose them as primaries, being the most common in nature. Mixing Blue and Yellow paint does not produce Green, but mixing Cyan and Yellow does. Mixing Blue and Green light produces Yellow.
Agree, I work in an industry where customers use heat transfer badge printers. The colors on the printer ribbon are cyan, magenta and yellow. Can't argue hard evidence.
Curses, you’ve seen past the artist conspiracy. Next thing, you’ll uncover the artist agenda.
Because we all work together to perpetuate myths. Just like scientists. 🙄
Orange used to be a shade of red, and was only named after the fruit later. Not exactly relevant, but interesting anyways lol.
hello artist here! "Primary colours" just refers to the colours that cannot be created, but can make any other colour. In the eye that's blue red green, in acrylic paint that's red, yellow, blue. etc.
Hope this clears things up :)
@@lankyceiling
That is a common misconception. Red and yellow and blue are Not the primary colors in paint.
Magenta, cyan, and yellow are. That is why printers use them.
You can actually get Red by mixing magenta and yellow.
You can get blue by mixing cyan and magenta. That is true blue.
Blue, Green, and Red light mixed together make white. Yellow, Cyan, and Magenta mixed together (ink or paint) make either gray or black, depending on the type of pigments used. Printers use Black ink for that reason, because the ink is slightly translucent, so the mixture is gray.
If you use Red, Blue, and Yellow paint, you cannot create Cyan or Magenta shades of paint. If you try adding white paint, it desaturates it and makes grayish.
I thought I would see green when I cross my eyes but the color I see is a dirty yellow. Like some sort of yellow with a dark filter.
That's what I saw. I'm assuming that was bluish-yellow, because the people who weren't seeing that we're seeing the middle square flash back and forth between blue and yellow. Cool!! 💙💛
I just love how he can go on a tangent about something nobody wanted to know but are glad they found out
Well I wanted to know this cause it's in my syllabus, I watched this 2 years ago and forgot but now I'm back cause now it's in my syllabus 😂
Also this is wat I feel😂
Oh, maybe I'm in minority but it bothered me for many years now: how can red and green light make yellow, when you remember that to make green paint you mix blue and yellow. It doesn't make sense! I think the description with the cells that add-substract colors can explain it. So it was long awaited information for me.
When I use acid next time, i will watch this Video again, if i can See the mixed colors
If I start a country, my flag will have this color just to screw with people
Great idea lol 🤣
You mean Sweden?
It`s called Ukraine, mate)
@@sergeymelnikov4836
True 😂
blue and yellow flags yellowish blue? xd
I saw a video about this same idea from Kyle Hill a few months back in which he had a similar test, not only to see yellowish blue, but also greenish red, and under the right circumstances I was able to perceive both. I actually find the yellowish blue to be a beautiful color and I wish it could appear as a normal color; I would paint my house that color if I could.
Weren't you surprised that it's a hot colour? I expected it to be a cold colour but Reddish-Green was the colder of the two.
I saw the Bluish-Yellow, but there are some people saying that the color they saw is like a purple color, now I'm confused and I don't know which is the correct Bluish-Yellow.
RIGHT as I started to move the screen closer to my eyes to try to see yellowish blue, a pest ad with a roach running at me popped up. I was not expecting a jump scare, thank you very much!! 😱
LMAO, I bet that was the last thing you expected. Me I paused it after wards.
Oh goodness that is funny! I had to read your comment twice to understand what you meant. At first, I thought you meant a child, sibling, or someone was running towards you with a roach attempting some sort of prank. I thought, “ wow, that’s odd.” I then realized that I must have misunderstood what you were saying. Lol
😳
Haha LOL 🤣
7:50 cross your eyes and try again.
"There's no such hue as yellowish blue."
The guy who carves my epitaph is going to be really confused.
Yellowish blue is actually greenish.
@@ragnkja no. The colors are a human construct based on what parts of the electromagnetic spectrum we can perceive, and if you actually watched the video you'd know that the same eye cells perceive blue or yellow but both simultaneously is interpreted as white. Green is perceived in separate cells, and has the same relationship with magenta. These all react to distinct wavelengths.
@@ragnkja He explains it at 6:50
@@ragnkja Yes...i see greenish variations.
@@ragnkja I saw it as purple ish
Hes also actually talking about Lab color space. L stands for luminance, where the g and b that he mentioned earlier are a and b respectively. A goes from green to magenta, and B goes from yellow to blue.
When I crossed my eyes, I saw flashing between yellow and blue. When I relaxed my eyes, I saw a gradient from blue to yellow and sometimes a tiny hint of greenish grey in the middle. The gradient slowly fluctuates from more yellow to more blue, but it still feels like either yellow or blue. Fascinating stuff! This is why I love Action Lab: simple and engaging experiments that explain the more complex concepts behind them. Reminds me of when I used to watch Bill Nye as a kid.
I tried seeing a forbidden color once but the FBI arrested me.
Wut
Lmao
ARE YOU KIDDING ME? YOU ARE EVERYWHERE! XD
@@danison If you see him everywhere, that means you are everywhere too
I actually thought about that, but idk if he is in more places on youtube then me... :D
Is it just me or does everyone see him 3 times a day on channels that they are subscribed to?
This is getting creepy...
*laughs in colorblind*
*giggles in deaf*
NSKSKSKSNWJENSKWKKW
Touches in numb
Me
After i watched the video i found myself asking why did even try to see an unknown color for most people,when i cant even see the normal ones feelsbad
I moved screen blue and yellow so close to my eyes that I saw only one cross with shadow near to it and both colors blended into something like turquoise/aquamarine, one plain color, very nice, fresh.
Paint mixes way different than light.
Interesting vid 💜 thanx beautiful
Him unscrewing the light bulb while it was on gave me so much anxiety
Same
You had it in you all along
LITERALLY😭
It's not hot dummies
Looked more like a gradient between yellow and blue that was constantly morphing direction between the two colors.
For a few seconds i saw that gradient you speak of but then after a while it stabilized and right at the center i saw what seemed like a different color, now, i can't decide if it was the impossible color or just a very bright blue, but it looks like yellow overlapped over blue
Update: tried again, intead of crossing my eyes i made them parallel, it's definitely a "blue-ish" yellow but, tbh, it's similar to what you see when you look at a yellow sheet through a transparent blue sheet.
@@graffiti9145 that's exactly what I saw
I saw a gradient from blue on the top left corner to yellow on the bottom right, and it was stable.
That's what I saw, too. Briefly, for less than half a second, I would see them as if one were overlayed on the other, but I couldn't tell which color was on top.
Did the effect continue after the graphic went away for anyone?
It took me a long time to do it, but I can finally see it. Put your finger in front of you, not too close that it's hard to focus on, and keep moving yourself backward until the crosses intersect in the blurry background you see. The color is much like what others say. It's sort of grey, but not really. To me, it seems more yellow than blue. Blue shows up more on the yellow side, and yellow shows up more on the blue side. If I can't focus perfectly, it actually looks like both blue and yellow are occupying the same area at the same time, without looking like any new color. But with perfect focus, right in the middle, it definitely combines. I can sort of imagine it afterwards, but not very well. My brain just doesn't want to understand or keep what I just saw. I can imagine the blue-yellow overlap a bit easier.
It doesn't even look that odd, it doesn't even seem like a new color, even though I've definitely never seen it before. It looks 'most similar' to green-grey, but certainly isn't. It looks like a regular color, but it isn't. You expect it to be shocking once you finally see it, a new color, but it seems mundane. This is a very peculiar phenomenon. I'm fascinated.
Damn that’s so cool! I’m pretty sure I saw the forbidden colour. I saw both the colours mixing in a diagonal line from top left corner down to the bottom right corner. It was like heaps of spots in the middle fading until they got smaller and smaller however on the the outside, it still had the blue and yellow solid colours.
What I learned: yellow is the absence of blue
And where is red in this game?
@@isaacnewton5075 Red + Green = Yellow
Red + Green + Blue = White
White - Blue = Yellow
White - (Red + Green) = Blue
That's like pink being not green.
OMG THAT'S IT BLUE AND ORANGE
Yellow + Blue = Green
Yellow = Red + Green
(Red + Green) + Blue = Green
But Red + Green + Blue = White
Wtf
Plot Twist: Bird Box was based in a world where people could see Yellowish-Blue and it was too much to comprehend
This is such an old reference by now i was surprised reading it
@@MyFictionalChaos A relic lost to time
???
@@doofass6356 Pizza Time
@@derpythebroom ?????????
For me, the field would start out Blue with a small Yellow outline of the plus sign. Then they would mix into the Blueish-Yellow Grey. When I would blink, it would revert back to the starting point of mostly Blue with a small amount of Yellow around the plus sign, then mix again. Is anyone NOT seeing this?
Thanks for the interesting video. I was able to see a stable bluish-yellow color around the cross. Something that helped, and perhaps you can ask the viewers to do is: as they cross their eyes to look at the two sides of the screen, to put their hands, with fingers together in front of their face with a gap in between the hands, so that with the left eye they are only looking at the right cross (the hands are covering the other one), and with the right eye they are only looking at the left cross. You get more stable images that way and the brain can combine them more easily.
As a photographer this is the most awesome demonstration of how we have to achieve white balance in Lightroom. Our color temperature is between yellow and blue. Then we have tint which is between Magenta & Green. Now I realize I'm actually trying to get the color to look right to both the cones and the subtractive cells. Great info! :)
Makes sense. Now consider how each of the extremes add up. :) Something like: Yellow tinted Magenta = Pink; Yellow tinted Green = Chartreuse; Blue tinted Green = Cyan; Blue tinted Magenta = Indigo.
@Paul Fitzgerald So True!
Donald Kronos
I thought at first you got the colors wrong, but I think maybe you just got the semantics wrong?
"Yellow tinted green" for instance means more green than yellow (the yellow is only a "tint"). Which would be in between chartreuse and pure green, but would normally just be called green. Whereas I think what you meant to say is equal parts yellow and green, which would indeed be chartreuse.
I'm actually using ACR while watching this and I didn't make the connection untiL i read your comment. Awesome!
@Paul Fitzgerald if photographers work with (T)emperature a(N)d (T)int, no wonder the best photos are so explosive.
Mantis shrimp and Common Blue-Tail butterfly laughing at our weak eyes.
don't forget the hummingbirds
My thoughts exactly
bad news, mantis shrimp’s extra cones are so they can perceive existing colors because they cant see them :( they dont see new colors
Ophanem magic shrimp can see polarized light unlike use
Also if you want to talk about a color we can't see green sea turtles they can see this color called "RED" not the color your thinking of but something we can't comprehend yet
I saw a "seafoam-ish" halo around his image, almost like an aura, after trying it a couple times.
I think I saw something when doing that test. The best way I can describe "bluish-yellow" is that it seems to be the opposite of purple. Like, purple is a warm-cold color, while bluish-yellow is a cold warm color. Dusk and dawn essentially. I know that doesn't sound likes it makes sense, but that's the best way I can describe it.
I actually saw purple and i was looking through the comments to see if anyone else did as well but you seem to have mentioned purple. Could you please tell me the relation as to why im seeing purple?
@@yinyang2385 I didn't see purple, but as I said, what I saw felt like the opposite of purple. An indescribable "bluish-yellow" color that isn't green. Since purple and green are complimentary colors, my best guess is that what I saw could possibly be in the middle of that spectrum, but even then purple and green ALSO don't mix the same way blue and yellow do. A color that I can see but not comprehend, you know what I mean?
Thanks for the new color.
I'll call it: "Bluello".
Loved that show
aka green
Bluello or Blellow?
Yellue
Wait no bluo XD actually I will call it green
I noticed that when two colors are right next to each other like that, with the yellow and blue, I'll see a little bit of different color, and right in the middle of those two, it looked like a weird purpleish color. Like, I'd describe it as like, a white gold, but with a purple-y hue instead of a yellow-y one.
Same thing happened when he was mixing the lights.
That happened to me too
Yeah for me it was sort of gray/purple/yellow
...wtf
yeah, i saw a grayish-greenish-purplish color
yeah !! it is gray/purpley yellow
kinda ugly highkey i see why we don’t need to see that color
Cool video! I saw a bright teal color with the yellow - blue experiment :)
Oh my, that's amazing! Nice and lovely color. Just my eyes hurts now after crossing them for over half of a minute before i realized that i need to tilt a monitor differently.
I remember seeing experiment with similar outcome and so i remember that color from before, but there was different approach where substracting and eye adaptation was used: starting with green and pink squares, then turning whole screen to white or looking onto white background, i.e. wall or paper. Then you will see same bluish yellow color there.
Things like this make me wonder what color everything really is.
There is no truth to how things look.. it depends on the prespective and sensors
If you've never seen it, highly recommend watching coke being poured but filmed with an IR camera
@@M-Z-E-U-J-HB ok
i wonder why everything is the way we perceive it.
Hell man.. Read up on the Mantis Shrimp.
Where we have 3 receptors for color, their eyes have between 12 to 16 (depends on species).
Its range of color is insane (includes ultraviolet and polarized light), and in some species its variable on demand. The thing basically has predator vision.
And here we are stumbling over yellowish blue.
I wouldn’t say I saw a “new” color but I didn’t just see yellow or blue. They were mixed together but it was more of a heterogeneous mixture. It was like mixing a bunch of yellow and blue rocks. Idk 🤷♂️
That's yellowish blue for you.
To me it looked like you got a yellow sheet of paper and sprinkled fine blue dust particles on it.
I just kept seeing blue, yellow, blue, yellow at first, but after a few moments they did seem to mix more. I don't feel like I saw a new color, but I'm also not sure how to describe it. Kind of like a pale cyan with a yellowish green/gray filter; not distinctly yellow or blue, but not really green, either. It looked a bit like two translucent sheets, one blue and one yellow, placed on top of each other that sort of blend together but not quite.
@@Schuyler2614 I kinda saw the same thing where it wasn’t quite green but it wasn’t distinctly yellow or blue either
What does that combination of emojis mean?
That’s so wild!!! I think I can actually see it! Between flashes of blue and yellow, once I focused the screen just right I saw an almost ugly hard to describe cold color that I can best describe as being centered between pale mustard and greenish-gray pale teal. It was both at once and really strange!!
Loved the burst of orange after focusing so much on bluish yellow when he appeared again.
It reminds me of what siri said her favourite colour was, sort of greenish, but with more dimensions
She saw... the forbidden color. Siri knows everything and is planning to take over humanity!
U ever drip mustard on ur blue jeans and wipe it off but it stains.....
@@lanadelgay9092 ... What is the forbidden color?
Yellowish blue
I love these comments 😂
When I crossed my eyes on the yellow and blue I saw the meaning of life.
my eyes hurt
?...
ROFL
42?
I physically could not keep my eyes crossed long enough to perceive the new color. I guess I'm not ready for the meaning of life just yet.
Holy shi*! I actually see it! What's crazy is when you were talking about it I couldn't see it in my head... But now that I have, I can recall it in my mind's eye! I've long wondered about what it would be like to see a new color, but assumed that just couldn't happen...
Anyway, after a little while (typing this reply) it has faded a bit from my memory. But I wonder if I'll be able to recall it perfectly if I look at it for a while more. Just as long as I don't go cross-eyed... 🤪🤣 Seriously though, thank you for this video. So awesome!
That was such a cool colour! Thanks for sharing!
I get kind of a grey-teal colour when overlaying the yellow and blue. It doesn't last long though as it shifts back and forth from yellow to blue.
I came to the exact same conclusion. Actually, it's kinda what I expected in a weird way.
I got a grey teal colour when drawing yellow with the hilighter tool over solid blue on my phone
Same.
same
Same it didn't happen at first but I kept staring for about 1 or 2 and eventually the colors slowly started to merge and turn into a kind of light purple greyish color
I'm not entirely sure why I watched the whole thing...
*Wuddup fellow colorblind fam*
Colorblind too🤷🏻♂️
Me too man😭😂
Sometimes we gotta take the L
This cracked me up.
🌈🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈Stay mad!! Hahaha
Beautiful colours, the like of which you have never seen...
Owie my eyes
You can see reddish-green if you look at the sun or a really bright light for a moment too long. The imprint of the light that stays in your vision for a little bit is always like a weird reddish green that doesn’t normally exist. When I read HP Lovecraft’s _The Color Out Of Space_ I imagined that color.
Weird this happened today
It's like 2 transparency sheets overlapping without turning green
exactly! same for me! looks like a transparent blue sheet, but it is not green
Yes! This is exactly it!
This what I got. I wouldn't call it a new color. Just two overlapping colors that I could see both of without the colors "mixing". I wonder if that's what people who claimed to see a new color were seeing and just didn't describe it well.
Yes exactly thats the perfect description
Sounds interesting... I jave difficulties crossing my eyes... How did you do it?
to me its like if someone painted a canvas yellow and then stretched a blue colored membrane over the top of it so that the membrane was nearly transparent but you could still see the blue hue of it
😯Gotcha!
Bro that is exactly it
Me too
Mine was just the opposite was blue with a yellow film
Same
Okay I admit defeat, I'm one of those who hates to have a bunch of subscribed channels so I'm real picky but your content is too darn good and I learn a lot 😌
I’d describe what I saw as yellowish blue. I observed this only when my eyes had managed to perceive the two crossed aligned to a near perfect center. Had no idea we weren’t supposed to see that till now. Interesting channel.
I'm late to this party, but... As I was crossing my eyes, trying to get the two symbols to align, I would see a shifting of the two colours. The shift was very much like the mixing of two fluids. Once I got the two symbols aligned and could keep the image stable the fluid shift stopped and instead I saw something that I would describe as yellowish blue. The blue colour was lighter than the solid block with hints of yellow showing through. If I could hold it for a while the two solid blocks would fade out and all I would see would be the yellowish blue block.
Nathan Lunn very interesting. As long as I held my eyes that way I only saw blue or yellow, never a mixture of the two. I think that's what the studies indicated - we are the typical test group I guess. I'd sure love to see a new color though...
@@ArmorofTruth OK first, Brad, don't feel like you're missing that much. While it does settle into a color once I get it aligned, it's like you're seeing the yellow field behind a roughly 20% or 30% darker than clear blue transparent filter (something that may well not work in real life, with subtracting filtering, it may alter the yellow) with the brightnesses shown in the video. While it's neat to see, it isn't even remotely like getting yellow from red and green, or purple from red + blue. Not even 1/10th as striking as that, maybe not even 1/100th of that. So you're not really missing that much. Even if that doesn't work, think of that yellow background not being modified through a blue filter, but the yellow seen clearly through a blue filter, as an even mix. So concepts you can easily understand and put together in your mind even without working in reality, it's not some super new color like purple.
Nathan, I was going to write almost exactly the same thing. Being a tech and extremely accurate person, I was expecting to get the alternating yellow / blue effect due to dominance shifting or a similar idea. Instead, when aligned and settled in, it snaps to a solid field of even, blue-tinted yellow, like seeing the still correct pure yellow field through a blue filter (which may not actually be possible with yellow and a real physical blue filter). Also as you describe, when I have the + marks nearly aligned but not quite, I get shifting. But I see all 3, I see some blueish-yellow areas, but then it's like solid blue bleeds through in some places, solid yellow in others, and the edges of the areas move around like a fluid. As I get the pluses to align fully, the entire area snaps into place and it becomes a single even field of blue tinted yellow. I'd really like to see the same images with the yellow taken down about 20%, and the blue made stronger by 10% increments, I think with the brightnesses adjusted it might become a more evenly intermediate color. As it was the yellow was significantly stronger.
Anyway just wanted to echo your comment, it is definitely a thing, people aren't imagining it or not quite setting the test up right or similar. Not the 'new purple' or similar I was hoping it could be, but it was definitely its own thing made up of two already familiar things mixed together.
me too
Great description, it too is similar to what I saw although mine was more of a bluish yellow. Staring like that for a while crystallized the cross in such a way as to appear holographic and the background colour makes a cool effect.
I only see a battle between blue and yellow.
yep, similar for me, too. It's not flashing but more like fading in moving areas.. but sometimes it looks similar to turquoise, but not on the whole area. Very confusing^^ but fun!
I see green
the forbidden color is the blood of the mixing :o
For me it's a constant wobbling between the two colors something like in a lava lamp.
For me nothing happens or maybe I just don't get how to cross my eyes to put both crosses in the middle
My description about the colors:
Blueish-yellow: Sort of a low saturation dark cyan with a little bit of yellow
Greenish-red: It seemed like some sort of brown with a green tint
Subtractive properties of light. The printing industry deals with this a lot. This is a good way to explain the concept.
Mixing light is different than mixing pigment. One is addative, and the other subtractive.
RGB additive / CMY subtractive processes
Yep. Also, yellow light exists. His example of his shirt is awful and incorrect.
blickblocks I have never watched a video on this channel that didn't make a fundamentally wrong statement like the yellow light one. I'm not sure if this guy just doesn't fully understand the topics he discusses or if he has an issue with figuring out how to simplify them without being misleading. A proper understanding of the subject leads to he fascinating extension that there IS a colour we all can see that doesn't correspond to anything that exists outside our minds. It's not yellow though.
@@pierssegal5910 no. It's magenta/purple. A mix of the two colours opposite of the spectrum. So there is no wavelength in between that can be assigned to a mix of red and blue.
No! Just admit that nature fucked up! When it comes to lights.
Am I the only one sad he didn't really talk about "greenish magenta"?
Extremely forbidden. CZcams would ban him.
Doesn't work, green and magenta are complimentary and would make grey
Because colorblind ppl won't see
no more than yellow and blue would - white is all 3 primaries, so you should be able to do it with yellow and blue, and with green and magenta - wither way it's the 3 together. I wonder what you'd get with cyan and red?
Yes
6:19 It was at this moment when The Action Lab ran out of money for their animation budget
Got to see a beautiful swirl of yellow and blue with a thin green aura separating them, and the circle around the focal point kept alternating but never green. Still fun :)
Humans: I can't see yellowish blue...
Mantis Shrimp: Hold one of my 16 photoreceptors, got you fam.
I was just thinking that
I can’t wait until they make that legal. Scientists have already successfully transplanted red cones into colorblind (possessing only green and blue cones) monkeys curing their colorblindness. Could use that to not only cure it in humans, but give us cones from butterflies and mantis shrimp and see whole new worlds of color. Too bad the christians made genetic engineering on people illegal.
Moorgan Pål Windan Hart I’m Christian and I’m down to research genetic engineering
@@MoorganHart Once you open the doors to things like that there will never be any turning back.
@@Bluesnipible and?
I used a vr headset and made it so i could clearly focus on the two crosses as a single 3d point in space. The colors sort of morphed and would take turns being either yellow or blue throughout my vision. Eventually if i focused enough i ended up seeing a sort of weird green that wasnt quite what i would call green. It is very difficult to describe but it was very clearly neither yellow nor blue. Shaking my head a little in the vr headset also helped achieve this effect but it wasnt necessary.
Indescribably interesting is it not?
I got this same affect, although you describe it a little more dramatically than I would. The color I saw is what I would typically call olive, maybe a little more on the green side. Not as life altering or climactic as I was hoping. XD
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if you wanted to try
I tried this too and would not say that I saw a new color. I just saw blue in some places and red in others. I then did the same thing but with a picture that was half green and half red, colors that should mix to make yellow, but saw the same effect with green and red. Perhaps you did something different but I’d say that feeding ur eyes different individual colors doesn’t seem to have a mixing effect to begin with
like a weird soft green right?
I found the angle at which you look at it changes the colour. I tilted my phone sideways and the colours merge better, depending on whether you have good 2020 vision, or slightly different strengthed eyes would also make a difference.
@0:15 the light reflected from the "A" on your Action Lab shirt are 625-750nm red light, 590-625nm orange light, 565-590nm yellow light, and 500-565nm green light. The human long wavelength cones and the human medium wavelength cones are able to detect all four wavelengths.
It looked like a kind of grey but significantly more blue and yellow than one's average grey. Bluen't
Saw the gray!!
That's exactly how I tried explaining it, omfg
I saw what looked like a greenish yellow? (rgb(160, 240, 180)) but really vibrant.
exacly
I would say it's like a lavender
When I was younger, a would often wonder why purple looks like a combination of blue and red and orange looks like a combination of yellow and red, but green looks completely different from blue and yellow. Now I have my answer.
explain brown
@@ToonLinkGaming dark orange
@@ameliawikstrom8018 I meant in the sense that brown is the most common colour combo end result out of all colour, more so than black and grey even
Dark Orange is a fairly simple colour combo only needs really 2 colours to make, black and or white and base colour. An orangy Red + little white = dark Orange , standard Orange + little black = dark Orange that's only 2 brown has like 8
@@ToonLinkGaming Brown *is* dark orange, though
You can make brown out of other colours than orange. Yellowish brown, reddish brown, greenish brown etc.
I’ve been seeing a greenish halo mostly in the orbits around the “A” where the bright yellow is contrasted against the black on top of the medium grey shirt the whole video. It almost hums or buzzes.
In the cross eye experiment. I can’t quite get the crosses aligned but as they get close the blue square’s cross seems brighter and sharper, while the yellow square’s cross slips over to the blue side with a blue yellow hallo.
A really great demonstration of the science of color mixing! A big part of my job as designer was the final color matching at Deskey Assoc, NYC.
We did all of the commercial packaging design for Procter and Gamble, etc. The color matching from our design comps applied to all different substrates (for the final packaged products) was pure Hell. The absorbency and sheen on the final product container or label never quite duplicated the "approved" color of our gouache and marker concepts. Your tutorial here would have helped us all greatly! Thank you, Action Lab.
I wish I could "printscreen" what my eyes are seeing
Did you try windows + shift + s ?
I had the same thought!
I really went „lemme take a screenshot“ while doing this and then realized that it’s not on the actual screen 😭😭
@@maxonite me trying to show people my fkd up phone screen haha
Someday
Woah, so I like, crossed my eyes and when it flashed, it changed to you and the colors swapped sides, that’s crazy
That happens because the cones that are receiving that colour are sort of getting fatigued and when the image changed to a white background the rods receiving say blue aren't able to do as good a job as the red and green cones so you see a yellowish haze for a moment.
I think he has a video about this.
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It wired color when cross eyed but thats not the wirest part when eyes started to water from looking the screen it was even wireder
GREEN IS NOT A CREATIVE COLOR
I saw it! I’ve done this so many times and never saw it. I don’t know what is different now, but I saw it. The yellow and blue didn’t flip back and forth like before, they faded in and out of each other, going from yellowish blue to blueish yellow. Never green. It is kinda like a reddish orange or pinkish magenta. When the color is so close to both that you find yourself focusing on it to see which it is closer to. Only with this I felt it wasn’t as bright as either alone. More faded than muted.
cool eye trick, I saw yellowish-blue. it was like painting one coat of paint on the wall and still see the other color showing through,
After staring for a long time at the two colors, that pulsing between blue and yellow slowed down and then stopped and it kind of turned into a desaturated yellow-grey with some blue tinge to it.
I wanna say filthy gold 🤷♀️
That is exactly what I saw. It was a VERY unattractive color. Also, my mind did NOT want to fuse those two crosses together, something I'm normally very good at, as I do a lot with stereo images.
Precisely my experience as well.
Yep, that's what I see. If I "relax" my eyes, I start seeing a dirty yellowish-grey-blue.
Same for me! How neat. My brain did NOT want to process it, but I guess you can force it to if you really try. Now I have a headache. 😂
I’ve previously fit the “4th cone” tests whe I see hard to discern colors. Can actually see a new color when I cross my eyes. The closest I could describe is gray with a slight slate blue undertone. Have to pause the image and give my brain time to choose a final blended color. I can officially say it’s not just green and it’s really hard to describe like he said. I can see it fits the description more closely described as similar to blue or similar to yellow but not quite green. Fascinating!
Yess! I thought the same, like a worn down shade of the both, or like they were losing individual saturation. Pretty interesting indeed
Put my phone very close to my crossed eyes and kinda let go and looked through like a 3D image sold at the mall in the 90's. I'm having difficulty to describe... I would like a control to veiw! I wish I could compare to a control image. Like a red/blue and yellow/green.
I got that too, it's like desaturated cardboard or a dirty smoke smog color. Slate blue gray isn't quite right, but it does feel like that's close enough of a color.
Yeah, I tried to describe it but your description fits best. Now my eyes are having a hard time focusing. Just take a blackboard with white yellow and blue chalk. Closest I can think of.
Idk if I'm seeing this or just very desaturated green??
I know this is an old video; just caught it this morning. Around the same timeframe (maybe 4-5 years ago), I was doing a similar experiment at the sensory (retinal) level instead of the perceptual (cortical) level. I constructed an Arduino-based system with an RGB LED feeding into diffuser (a small acetel sphere). I alternated flashes between R (approx 660nm wavelength) and G (approx 520nm). Two knobs controlled the relative percentage of time on each as well as the overall flash frequency. The purpose of this was to disrupt the R/G discharge times.
I got similarly interesting results. At relatively low frequencies, there were distinct RG flashes. At high frequencies, yellow. But at a middling frequency, it was... confusing. It was neither red nor green nor yellow, nor did it swim/alternate between them. The best way to describe the perception was "both red and green".
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The only way I can describe that color from crossing my eyes is that I swear I've seen it before in a fruit rollup
The closest I can describe the color I saw was similar to what was shown at 4:54 in the video.
@@davemarm I've seen those in fruit rollups, too
Wow I saw it when I crossed my eyes but I did not see it on a fruit roll up
@@davemarm yeah pretty close
folded alpaca 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Wow. Yellowish blue is *not* green.
I also noticed an after image of yellowish blue around you after the experiment.
Thankyou! This was fascinating.
Dude after-images are the opposite of what you looked at, so you saw purple-orange I guess
hey me too
@@tawnyevergreen4169 This wasn't what I'd have expected.
Same
Huh
Do this on your phone.
Put your hand on the centerline of the blue and yellow. Place your nose on your hands edge moving your thumb out of the way. Check both sides to make sure you cannot see the other color peeking through.
Look up slightly and find the spot where your hand seems to look like a Y. In the top portion of that space is the color.
It is basically green at low brightness but more like turquoise or a green blue yellow grey combo. It is almost like you brain is not fully mixing the inputs and is making a weird combo decision.
Pretty neat!
I've been told that human eyes can interpolate between red and green (yellow), and between green and blue (cyan) because these colors are all contiguous in the spectrum. They can interpolate between red and blue (purple, contiguous to blue but far away from red) only because blue cells have negative response on a red light impulse. Is this compatible with what you're saying? And if so, how? Thank you in advance.
I was able to see the yellowish blue, and it made me curious. I entered a drawing software and tried to recreate the color I saw. By mixing different shades of yellow and blue with different opacities I wasn't able to even come close. The only colors I would get were gray and beige. This is so cool!
Oh, that's because light and pigment (even digital pigment lol) operate in a different way. For example, mixing complementary colors will "subtract" in a way that makes things look brown or gray. Mixing complementary colors with light will typically create white.
I did the same thing on my phone but I definitely made different hues of blueish yellow and yellowish blue. One hue was very much like a colour someone else described when doing the eye cross thing as teal grey. It is very interesting
Did you put 2 identical pictures side by side with opposing yellow and blue in both but kept every other colour the same in the drawing? Because that's what I would've done.
Then you just cross your eyes and see the drawing with da funky colour in the middle
if you have equal amounts of yellow and blue, you will get a darker or lighter grey, min to black, max to white. If you have more yellow and less blue, you will get a sort of beige or olive. If you have less yellow and more blue, then you will get a bluish-grey. Likewise, red + cyan or green + magenta. They are opposite hues on the color wheel. So they combine and partially or fully cancel out to give you a grayish, duller, more neutral color.
i actually do the eye crossing thing all the time, unintentionally sometimes, to combine shapes, lines, and colors. so it caught me by surprise to see that in a CZcams video. the colors appear almost iridescent or like a mood ring, it's 2 colors at the same time overlapping eachother in different intensities very smoothly
This is what I saw. I somehow saw both at the same time
it looks like a blue water color covered banana
@GeoFunky what is that condition
Yes is like those chamaleon color vinyl wraps
It shifts from one color to another, from blue to yellow and vice versa, then there are islands and mainland of both colors. As if the brain tries to decide. At one point these intermingle, as if a microlace of one atop of the other.
Finally, if You focus enough on the cross and concentrate, You will see that color. A kind of very pale aluminum folio of gold , similar to wrappings of margarine. Like a wet cardboard box attacked by mold and extremely paled because of exposure to the Sun.
This video intrigued me the most of all on this channel.
I think that you could have emphasized on the difference between mixing pigments and mixing light, which are subtractive and additive operations respectively. Thus we get either green when substracting or white when adding blue and yellow.
7:00 Mixing paint (pigments) together is a different color theory - subtractive or CMY(K) if you wish. Therefore getting a green color by mixing yellow and blue is a different beast as well as mixing all three primary colors together will give you black rather than white by mixing all three primary light sources (Additive color producing).
Oooh so that's why I always thought IKEA has such a disturbing colour scheme 😂
Blue and Yellow are complementary colors on the color wheel, they're supposed to look good together.
Well I saw purple so my eyes are broken.
Um same
Me too
A light purple-ish color
I saw a purple dot in the middle for a split second
Yeah, I saw it especially down the line in the middle - perhaps the way the two colours transition in that image is messing things up a bit.
The blue+yellow thing is why white LED light engines are composed of orangy yellow dies; the LED itself makes blue light, which then hits the yellow material on the die, which fluoresces yellow. This combines blue and yellow light, which are on opposite regions of the CIE chromaticity diagram. In the middle of the diagram is the white light the LED light provides.
When I cross my eyes I see yellow and blue overtaking each other constantly in a sort of 'colour wave' until they mix briefly, turning into a pale green.
I see a grayish cyan color..... kind of
But with a yellow tint to it
Same.
that is what i saw... why dont i see green... i feel like the ability to see green is some kind of like hidden reptile easter from mortal combat!.... what do... what am the sky... how does eat food?
Our sun is yellow... and our sky is blue... should that make the clouds green.... not white?... what's up with white cloud's... our color physics suggest's our clouds should be green! could you imagine a blue sky with green clouds!.... that would be really cool!
I see a blue with a tint of yellow
U r colour blind
Christopher Williams
Now thats a whole different thing. Why would the sun and the sky have anything to do with clouds looking white or gray. What im saying is that, look at steam, its does not have to be against any yellow or blue yet its still grey or white.
That yellowish blue is so wierd, kinda like green but not green at all :/
Edit: to see that I got really close to my phone screen and focused beyond screen to merge the crosses together
Shortly after, if you look at his shirt you can seperate the colors in his shirt to blue and grey in "double vision"
I had to do the same thing because I couldn’t hold my phone still enough and the crosses not lining up was causing me to focus on that instead of the colors. I saw teal though.
thanks, with that i was able to see it. and it was ugly
Yeah its weird its like its green until you like really think about what it is then its not green anymore? does that makes sense? haha thats how i felt at least
For me it looked like dying purple, if that makes any sense.
I appreciate that these videos stick to observable, repeatably evidence-based science.
When the colors weren't flipping back and forth and kind of meshed, for a split second I almost saw a tealish like color, but with a sort of greyish undertone, like it was a super weak teal. Very interesting.
Same here but I can control my eyeinput and I managed to make it look better
Hmmm... I don't know how to describe that, it definitely didn't look like green, but bluish yellow doesn't do it justice. It seemed exactly halfway between the blue and the yellow. I want to call it... grundy. It's an ugly colour anyway, I can see why it's banned. Now, about that greeny magenta...
Green Is Not A Creative Colour Grundy is an accurate descriptive for the color, it kinda looked like a grimy green to me, like what you would expect a half ripe banana to look like if you dropped it in a week old pot of frying oil.
Como Vaヨシッ Yep, It was more of a grey. I can control which eye my brain is paying attention to or dominant, focused on realizing both the blue and the yellow and gave equal effect to my brain from both eyes. I didn't quite get a teal color, but I could sense the blue created greater cooling than the yellow created warmth.
Same! It looked greenish. Almost like gross cotton candy.
What do you mean green isn't a creative color? Green is what color grass is, and trees and ferns, it's the color of life...
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That moment when your watching with your friend and remember they’re color blind....
So what did you see then? XD
I bet we've all experienced this.
I’m color blind lmao
Pretending to know what’s happening
LOL. I actually learned I acquired color blindness when I was a kid. I worked as an optometrist technician as an adult and learned the science behind. I am red-green colorblind :)
I think I can see it!
When I go cross-eyed on that blue/green image, I can't get it to go all the way so the two +s are overlaid. So instead, I get three bands in my vision: The yellow field on the left, the "overlap" field in the middle, and the blue field on the right.
Inside the overlap field, the left-most edge of the overlap field appears reliably blue, and the right-most edge of the overlap field appears reliably yellow.
Everything between those two edges changes up. Sometimes it appears yellow, sometimes it appears blue, and there's seems to be no pattern or predicatability to how it changes back and forth.
HOWEVER! Occasionally it settles down and stabilizes for a few moments into a gradient! The gradient looks blue on the left-most edge, then transitions seamlessly from there to the yellow on the right-most edge. The gradient in between goes from blue to yellow smoothly _without appearing green_. It's not green: It's bluish-yellow. Blellow.
I did have to stare at it for quite a while before I got that result, but I got it.
What's really freaking weird is _I can't remember what it looks like_. I can describe it as I see it, and after I see it I can recall the words that describe what I saw. But I can't picture the colour I saw in my mind's eye the way I can picture a yellow thing or a blue thing. I can't picture a blellow coloured object in the same way, even though I "saw" blellow.
I totally saw it. I’m good at stuff like that. I can also perceive blackish brown. I was involved in an experiment wherein we were on the verge of describing chartreuseish aquamarine but I suffered an eye injury. Now I see all kinds of crazy colors.
Beginning of video: no one can see yellowish blue.
Ending of video: some people can see yellowish blue.
Some people see yellowish blue or green or flash between yellow and blue when each eye gets a different color to view and their brain is forced to make a decision as to what color it is seeing from each half of the brain. That is different from both eyes getting both yellow and blue light at the same time to view where what the brain receives on both sides is the same. I saw a really odd looking pale green, almost dirty looking.
Beginning of video: no one can see yellowish blue.
End of video: some people *might* be able to *perceive* yellowish blue.
@@tanyawales5445 I'd describe it as faintly mottled, I think I see what you mean about dirty-looking, it has that finely blended look you get from smudging things together
I was able to see it and it is kinda screwed up
I saw yellow fringed with blue, but not yellowish blue.
Before watching this video: if only there was a word for the colour that's a mix of blue and yellow
bellow
yelue
Yole
Green?
Not how it works with light
bruh its orange obviously 🙄
I definitely saw something weird. It looked a little brownish. I was probably just seeing weird stuff since I crossed my eyes. Cool video!
I believe I can prove this kinda wrong when I blended the colors with my eyes I got a “purple grey” which I also saw a little when they were blending the light so I decided to go to ibisPaint and test it out (and I believe this isn’t like mixing paint because phone light isn’t pigment so you won’t get green) so I took blue and I put yellow at around 31% opacity then changed it to 30%opacity over the blue and it came out they same “purple grey” I saw you might have to mess around with it for the EXACT shade but it should always be in the warm color group the exact”forbidden” color name is called 887985