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[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 2 points 2 years ago

Technically false. Digital images are made up of pixels like this:

which reproduce colors by adjusting the intensity of the red, green and blue light in each pixel. If nothing else, every white pixel in the image contains a full-brightness red segment.

[–] HorreC@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

maybe because I am color blind, but I am only seeing the blue and some white.

[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Some of that white is not as white as the others. There's definitely a reddish tone of you zoom in.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah probably jpeg compression muddying it up. That combined with another comment about white pixels containing red makes me think that this illusion was intended to be printed out.

[–] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 years ago

I find that reddish tint foes away if I zoom in and block out the teal parts

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago

It's just less teal spots, not much redder, especially not as .uch as perceived

First two are from the centre, the last is not