Re: Color constancy

[John Mallinckrodt <ajmallinckro@CSUPOMONA.EDU>]

[I *really* wasn't going to do this, but then Dewey wrote:
> Perhaps we could call this the Hendrix effect ;^)?
so blame it on him.]

Larry Cartwright wrote:
> George Spagna wrote:
> > My house used to have pale beige siding.  My younger daughter
> > always insisted that it was a white house.  When confronted
> > with white paper as a contrast, she still insisted that the
> > house was white!
> > ...
> > We solved the "house color problem" by installing new, gray
> > siding!
>
> So your house has gone from a very light shade of grey to a
> darker shade of grey :-)

I would have called it a "paler shade of white," a clear example
of the "Harum Procol" effect.

John Mallinckrodt      mailto:ajm@csupomona.edu
Cal Poly Pomona          http://www.csupomona.edu/~ajm