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What pink dots?  Pink elephants maybe, but no pink dots.  Then, I’ve been drinking vodka all day long, so that explains it all.

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The pink dots really do disappear.  It’s a virtual visual phenomenon. 

It’s down right cool, man.

If I look to the side a little, all of the dots are green.

Good on you for this one.

There really is no green dot, and the pink ones really don’t disappear.

Congratulations! You’ve discovered the theory of man-made global warming! Substitute “man-made global warming” for “green dot” and “greenhouse gases” for “pink ones” and I think you’ve got it!

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I have been seeing green dots all over that little area. I even came back to see if I was doing it wrong. It is pretty cool, man…

You should look it up in the archives, as Rob posted this a while back. As I remember, someone (probably that braniac Carrik) explained exactly how it works.

It’s an ‘after-image’ effect. What happens is that the color cones in your eye suffer from ‘fatigue’ and tend to perceive the color areas with less color--the pink eventually becomes gray when you stare at the cross for a long time because the red and blue receptors in your eye tend to fatique and see the same level as the green in the gray area of the screen.

You see green because for a moment each pink dot goes to gray--and the red and blue receiptors in your eye see less light, which is perceived as green: because gray (red + green + blue) - pink (red + blue) = green.

If anyone can explain this to me, please do.

Magic dots.

"Although I can accept talking scarecrows, lions and great wizards in emerald cities, I find it hard to believe there is no paperwork involved when your house lands on a witch.”
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It is a psychadelic thing. Not really. BUT I thought I would give it a try???

I agree will W. Woody. It has to do with the rods and the cones in our eyes and their becoming ‘saturated’ and then reacting with a seeming inverse color as they normalize.

Yun Chu said, “You must strictly not express in words what is very significant. Both dragon and snake are killed in one blow.”

sparkie and woody are convincing but I think Steve’s got it right.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

There is also some play here with the ‘phi phenomenon’, or the process by which our brain infers motion between similar stills, fed at a rate of at least 21 fps. The speed might be a little slower here which could be why its not perfectly smooth.

Yun Chu said, “You must strictly not express in words what is very significant. Both dragon and snake are killed in one blow.”

Steve said it was magic.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

oh. magic. maybe even black magic. someone whould warn neiman not to look.
I forgot about that.
well, I guess its settled.

Yun Chu said, “You must strictly not express in words what is very significant. Both dragon and snake are killed in one blow.”

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

the dots are similar to the face of a clock the rotation of a hr. hand or minute hand spinning as a clocks hand spins would give the same illusion of the dots changeing color. The hand of the clock is transparent and the color of the back ground and as it passes over the pink dots the color transforms into the green color preceived as green dots. This is however just a guess on my part and I can only think that it is something much more complicated that this simple explaintion.
Rich

rich
its neural. our transducers are poorly insulated and/or recover from a color load poorly… they overreact.

Yun Chu said, “You must strictly not express in words what is very significant. Both dragon and snake are killed in one blow.”

its neural. our transducers are poorly insulated and/or recover from a color load poorly… they overreact.

Kinda like a Clinton- Obama- Edwards - Gore speech… visceral reaction, but no “there’ there!

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