[osamagirl69]

It is incredible to see a concept going from 'optical table of sensitive equipment fraught with numerous safety concerns' to 'here is a 1 kB svg animation, stare at it for 1 minute' in 3 months.

Enjoy your forbidden color, you earned it!

[layer8]

The article however concludes: “So do the illusions actually take you outside the natural human color gamut? Unfortunately, I’m not sure. I can’t find much quantitative information about how much your cones are saturated when you stare at red circles. My best guess is no, or perhaps just a little.”

[zahlman]

FTA:

> The idea for that animation is not new. It’s ~~plagiarized~~ based on Skytopia’s Eclipse of Titan optical illusion (h/t Steve Alexander), which dates back to at least 2010.