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How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look?

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Re: How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look?

#5

They really don’t look all that different to my untrained eye - in fact I think it looks “better” without the bag. Maybe I’m loco.

I'm in the same camp. It definitely doesn't look more orange to me. If anything, it looks more brown.

The unbagged oranges are more appealing.

Re: How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look?

#7

Brown is dark orange, cmv.

That’s like saying green is a yellower blue. It’s all arbitrary.

The names are arbitrary but the underlying color theory is not. Colors are different wavelengths of light and our eyes have sensors that are sensitive to specific wavelengths.

Re: How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look?

#10
>The average pixel was not what I expected.

The average pixel doesn't look correct because human vision does not interepret shadowed colors as different colors. We first guess at the shadows, and then do some kind of inverse mapping from the shaded color space to the illuminated one before we "perceive a color". This is why the black,blue/white,gold dress illusion exists.

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