
color illusion 69
experiment 13: transparency and spatial illusion
Challenge: Create an illusion of spatial arrangement
Materials: Color-aid paper
Now that you have discovered a new skill—mixing color with your
eyes closed—you can use this skill to tell a simple visual story:
how two transparent colors on different planes meet but do not touch.
We know that mixing red and blue results in violet. And we know that
when these parent and mixture colors are arranged correctly, the
illusion of transparency takes effect. Now, imagine transparent red and
transparent blue on separate layers, with both layers in front of a
white background. A spatial arrangement ...