OT: Illusion and Color Perception

This never ceases to amaze me. Was just using Compressor, cropped out a letterbox, checked the preview, and I was wondering why the footage looked brighter in the encoding preview. The illusion of color perception/contast (the letterboxed version had black letterbox bars, and dragging the slider in the preview window removes the black bars).

Here's an interesting article:
[www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp]



www.strypesinpost.com

"The Red Desert"
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Here another illusion.

[www.spherico.com]

Regards
Andreas