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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 6325925" data-attributes="member: 58197">By this logic, the torch should also be painted white.It is true that our brains re-interpret what we see. There are cases where the artist has to compensate for that, but this isn't one. If everything in the painting had a yellow-orange cast, our brains would interpret that as &quot;yellow-orange light&quot; and adjust: The robe would come across as white despite not being painted that color. Having the torch be yellow-orange but the robe be white creates confusion, because the torch is telling us to expect yellow-orange light but the robe is telling us we must be looking at white light.Coming back to the PHB image, it's the same issue in reverse. The coloring of the face is saying we are looking at blue-tinged light, but everything around it is saying white light. If you take away the rest of the image and just look at the guy's face, the issue disappears; the brain goes &quot;Oh, blue light,&quot; and compensates.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 6325925, member: 58197"] By this logic, the torch should also be painted white. It is true that our brains re-interpret what we see. There are cases where the artist has to compensate for that, but this isn't one. If everything in the painting had a yellow-orange cast, our brains would interpret that as "yellow-orange light" and adjust: The robe would come across as white despite not being painted that color. Having the torch be yellow-orange but the robe be white creates confusion, because the torch is telling us to expect yellow-orange light but the robe is telling us we must be looking at white light. Coming back to the PHB image, it's the same issue in reverse. The coloring of the face is saying we are looking at blue-tinged light, but everything around it is saying white light. If you take away the rest of the image and just look at the guy's face, the issue disappears; the brain goes "Oh, blue light," and compensates. [/QUOTE]

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