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Comment by Adaptive

Hard to tell if this is auto generated but I'd guess so. There's a somewhat egregious error. In the Helmholtz–Kohlrausch effect section the site states"

"The illusion where increased saturation (or chroma) of a color is perceived as an increase in the color's lightness."

But that is notably wrong. Lightness is a tonal metric (closer to white, more lightness) and is defined as such on that site as well.

In the H-K effect, emitted light of greater saturation (less lightness) is perceived as higher luminance (brighter) than emitted light of greater lightness.

A more accurate statement would be "The effect whereby colors of greater saturation than, but equal luminance to, a less saturated reference color are perceived to be of greater luminance that the reference color." (I'm sure that could be tightened up.)

A very different thing.

parent Adaptive 3 years ago

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