color perception

a toy by zach blume

what do we percieve as the edges of a color group? the idea for this toy came from the experience of arguing whether a color is more one color or another: "that truck's red!"..."no it's pink!". if we percieve the edges of a color group differently, we must percieve the entire set of color (say, the colors "green") differently.

this toy explores that. it simply finds the middle of the edges you define (click once for the left edge, second for the right edge).

the color in the middle:



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