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  • Hazel Quantockniq@pony.social
    Aug 29, 2026, 5:01 PM

    of course, it's not really yellow, it's a shade of pink that's very slightly orangey

    there's 2 things happening here:
    1/ the tone mapping desaturates bright colours
    2/ your perception interprets colour relative to context and relative to the magenta this shade of peachy-pink is yellow

    close up on the "yellow" car, isolated in close up like this it's obviously a peachy pinky red
    colour sample from the yellow car, showing that the RGB value is definitely a shade of pink not yellow
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  • Hazel Quantockniq@pony.social
    Aug 29, 2026, 5:01 PM

    in conclusion: i'm pretty sure if you wake up one day and the sky is a magenta and black checkerboard you'll see red cars that look yellow

    thank you for coming to my TED talk

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