Science How many shades of color do YOU see in this image?

[Jayybent2]

This has been going around twitter for the last few days. It reminds me of the debate about the picture of the shoes, etc, etc.

How many shades of color do you see below?

I see 11 fairly distinct bands. Others reckon they see more, others as few as 3 lol:

Read about the science below:

How Many Colors in This Image? Here's The Science Behind The Illusion Dividing Twitter

Now that the bin-fire that was 2020 is in our rear view mirror, social media is making a return to serious discussions that truly matter. Like how many colors a thing has. Again.

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I see 12!!! This is pretty neat

 

[Xorkoth]

What color? All I see is whitish grey that blends more into a darker grey, so 2 colors and then some?

If you're being serious, then you are most certainly colorblind.

 

[Fire&Water]

I see pink dead people ...

 

[CFC]

Interesting, logged in on my mobile, I can only see 7 shades even zoomed in. So clearly the quality of display or color gamut is causing at least some of the differences we're seeing.

 

[Flynnal]

I can see 21 shades, some shades are "hidden" between the bars".

 

[Gormur]

I guess I see fewer than others here at only 6 colors, but that could be because I know of names for those colors and the rest looks like black dotted color patterns but without different colors in them

 

[JessFR]

I see pink dead people ...

They don't know they're pink dead people?

 

[TripSitterNZ]

there is 14 quite visible ones to me. How you see 21 man i done hella LSD so my color perception is pretty good.

Hmm if i sit really far away from my monitor i can make out 17.

 

[Fire&Water]

They don't know they're pink dead people?

... only on the inside

 

[Sky God]

20

 

[birdup.snaildown]

12

 

[December Flower]

there is 14 quite visible ones to me. How you see 21 man i done hella LSD so my color perception is pretty good.

Hmm if i sit really far away from my monitor i can make out 17.

The article is really an interesting read.
There's actually only 11 colours, but the comparison of colours creates colours inbetween for our visual senses.

This diagram explains very well what's happening

 

[emkee_reinvented]

more than I am willing to count something like 13

Me too.

 

[rickolasnice]

32. On my phone I think i saw 23?

 

[December Flower]

The article is really an interesting read.
There's actually only 11 colours, but the comparison of colours creates colours inbetween for our visual senses.

This diagram explains very well what's happening

so I did a color space analysis and it's actually 65 different colours in the picture, haha The article said 11, but maybe pixellation increases the amount of colours here. If you really zoom in on the picture you can see 4-5 shade-changes every time there's a hard shift.

 

[6am-64-14m]

I think I counted 11 until I applied a basic color correction on the image:

 

[SnafuInTheVoid]

I have deuteranopia colorblindness and see 7, but I am also counting 3 bands that look almost identical (I am assuming they are different)

 

[December Flower]

I have deuteranopia colorblindness and see 7, but I am also counting 3 bands that look almost identical (I am assuming they are different)

I did a color space analysis. It's 65 colours.
Yeah I know, crazy. I counted like 11 the first time

 

[Outlier]

Am I fucked in the head or something I counted 23.

 

[Xorkoth]

Am I fucked in the head or something I counted 23.

It's because you touch yourself at night. The devil is starting to bestow his evil sight upon you. Soon you'll be fully possessed and you'll probably start smoking reefers, too.