The conception the The Eye’s Mind started with a curious observation. I was playing with some RGB LED lightbulbs I had bought. As the room became bathed in colored light as I browsed through all of the hues, some colors behaved a little strange to me. When the bulb was a blue-violet, some yellow objects glowed a strong red-orange. I already knew about additive and subtractive color and how they blend. That wasn’t the mystery. What was puzzling to me was that the affect was different on objects of seemingly the same color. I created The Eye’s Mind to not only understand this particular phenomenon, but also human visual perception as a whole.
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The conception the The Eye’s Mind started with a curious observation. I was playing with some RGB LED lightbulbs I had bought. As the room became bathed in colored light as I browsed through all of the hues, some colors behaved a little strange to me. When the bulb was a blue-violet, some yellow objects glowed a strong red-orange. I already knew about additive and subtractive color and how they blend. That wasn’t the mystery. What was puzzling to me was that the affect was different on objects of seemingly the same color. I created The Eye’s Mind to not only understand this particular phenomenon, but also human visual perception as a whole.
We move about our day, trusting our senses to give us an accurate picture of our environment. The truth is that our experience of the world is nothing but an an abstraction. The Mind's Eye spans many areas of study, divided into four sections. It begins with the properties of light, the development of color models in early culture, and exotic perceptual schemas that experience far less or far more colors than the average human. The second section describes the methods by which the brain tries to make sense of the signals it's receiving from the eyes by relying on assumptions about the relationships between visual stimuli. The third section pokes holes in these assumptions, resulting in illusory perceptions. The last section is about taking advantage of our limitations to create useful and interesting visual phenomena.