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- From: bvickers@valentine.ics.uci.edu (Brett J. Vickers)
- Subject: Re: Noah's formation: The rainbow
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- Reply-To: bvickers@ics.uci.edu (Brett J. Vickers)
- Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
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- Date: 22 Jul 92 23:28:23 GMT
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- References: <1992Jul20.091322.13842@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> <1992Jul21.165921.29128@public.sub.org>
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- peterk@public.sub.org (Peter Kittel) writes:
- >Is it only me or does the sky beneath a rainbow also appear lighter
- >to others than the sky above a rainbow (or wait, was it the other way
- >around?)? But anyway, for my eye there is definitely a jump in
- >brightness of the background sky (normally rain clouds) from beneath
- >to above the rainbow. Any explanation for this?
-
- Optical illusion? Two fields of the same color, separated by a line
- of a brighter or darker color, give the optical illusion that one half
- is lighter than the other. The trick is to cover the line and see that
- they are the same. I've never tried this with a rainbow.
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- Brett Vickers (bvickers@ics.uci.edu)
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