hyperbolic colour

noun

Etymology

From hyperbolic + colour.

Definitions

  1. The type of colour perceived when a visual afterimage is viewed on a background of the…

    The type of colour perceived when a visual afterimage is viewed on a background of the same colour, resulting in a purer perception of that colour than is ordinarily possible to perceive; usually achieved by staring at a shape in one colour (e.g. cyan) for several seconds, and then immediately looking at a background in the opposite colour (e.g. orange), which is the same colour as the resultant afterimage.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hyperbolic colour. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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