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Imagining New Colors

From left to right, these are Hyperbolic Orange, Luminous Red and Stygian Blue

Above are a number of examples of chimerical colours. Continue to stare (without shifting your eyes) at one of the many crosses as the image changes. When the image changes, the impossible colours should be revealed. Some people will see the colours more easily than others but if you persist, you may get a glimpse of something nonexistent.

So what’s happening?   

 Chimerical colours don’t appear within the colour space of human vision. As the name suggests, they are a construct of the mind. They can be created by inducing a natural process of the eye called colour fatigue. If you stare at a colour for a long time your eye will temporarily displace the colourspace by the opposing colour. 

So if you stare at yellow, then black, for a short time you will perceive that black to contain blue. The colour you are seeing is out of the range of visible colours. It is a pitch black blue; thus it is deemed an impossible colour.

There are three types of chimeric colours: Hyperbolic, Luminous and Stygian.  If you’re having trouble seeing one or more of the colours, don’t get discouraged: everyone’s experience is different.  One person may be able to see the Stygian colours easily but almost none of the hyperbolic colours while another person might have the exact opposite experience.  

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It was really hard for me to see the hyperbolic orange, stygian blue took me a second, but luminous red jumped out at me.