• @[email protected]OP
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      Depending on your brain you will see different things! This experiment relates to visual cognition. If you see a dark orange circle your brain leans high-level vision and the dimmer the orange circle is (or if you don’t see one at all) the more you lean low-level vision.

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        What if I can alternate between both?

        Edit: I’ve looked at it a bit more:

        • I can make the black circles into “windows” that show a red circle behind a white wall.

        • I can also overlay the red circle as a mask in front of the black parts, so that only the black parts make the red circle visible (like in a shader program or when masking parts of an image in a photo editor).

        • Then I can also envision a red hue along the white parts of the image that follows the silhouette of the red circle.

        • And then I can “deactivate” the silhouette again, so that the red parts are simply drawn on top of the black circles, with no relation to each other.

        I think this is just a test to see if you have experienced a certain effect before.

      • @[email protected]
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        304 days ago

        I doubt a single image can say something so broad reaching about someone’s cognition. You’d need multiple images displayed in more standardized conditions to know anything with confidence. People could be seeing this on all sorts of displays, from an OLED smartphone screen with blue light filter enabled, to an HDR monitor with custom color calibration. They could have the image fill different proportions of their field of view and see it in very different emotional contexts. A single data point cannot say anything about a person’s cognition.

        On top of that, I have no idea what you mean by high vs low level vision. Are you talking about bottom-up vs top-down processing more generally?

        Is it specifically testing to see how your brain changes the color or brightness of the red/orange based on depth cues?

        The spacing of the lines on the circles gives the perception of a red/orange circle behind an object with slits cut out of it. Many of us can see an occluded circle because it’s useful to be able to identify objects that are particularly hidden. It’s like seeing an animal hiding in a bush at 100 meters, where you can’t rely on binocular clues to perceive depth.

        I’m guessing that the color/brightness change is similar to seeing the sun or the moon through a tree canopy. I’ve noticed that they look dimmer and more orange in a similar way to this image. The moon looks bigger and more yellow if it’s seen on the horizon or through trees.

        Regardless, a single image on 196 can’t fully demonstrate which way you lean on anything.

      • Cattypat
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        114 days ago

        and if see a bright red? this doesn’t seem very scientific I’d love to see some more info

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        This seems a bit flawed. I have aphantasia (which is what I assume you mean when you say low-level vision) and I can see a red/orange circle. (I’m going to assume the difference in colour is because of my screen) It isn’t well defined but it is bright and I would guess that I wouldn’t see one at all since I can’t see anything in my mind at all.

        • @[email protected]
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          24 days ago

          All 3d images on a flat surface are an illusion in the same way as this image. It simply uses very limited depth cues when compared to most images.

      • L@zzerot
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        I know I’m somewhere close to aphantasia, you didn’t have to rub it in!
        (Genuinely though, you might wanna consider providing some links like the VVIQ or a general definition of aphantsia before throwing around terms like “low-level vision” because otherwise you might unintentionally come across as a bit insulting) @[email protected] see here :)

        • @Taalnazi
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          I can see the form but couldn’t imagine it.

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          Huh apparently I am hyperphantasic, it probably relates to my lucid dreaming.

          I found the part about creating and manipulating complex scenes interesting because I have mostly used that for martial arts.

          But according to the OP I would have low level vision lol

          I usually see through optical illusions like that white/gold vs blue/back dress I could see both but immediately knew it was blue/black.

      • @Risus_Nex
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        Also you can do a pretty easy 3D magic eye thing with this picture. That’s at least what happened when I was looking at it