It’s something most of us learn when we are little.
But a new test will make you question everything you thought you knew about colors.
As the name suggests, The Color Matching Game tasks you with matching different shades.
While this may seem simple, in practice it is surprisingly difficult.
So how good is your color perception?
It’s something most of us learn when we are little. But a new test will make you question everything you thought you knew about colors.
The test is the brainchild of Colorlite Lens, a company that develops color vision-enhancing lenses to correct color vision deficiency and color blindness.
During each round, you will see two colored rectangles on your screen, which you must try to match.
Simply use the slider below the rectangles to adjust the color of the rectangle on the right.
Once you think the two rectangles are the same color, click the button titled “Get the next color!”
In the first round of the Easy level, you will be tasked with adjusting a bright pink rectangle to match a dark blue rectangle.
In the first round of the Hard level, the two rectangles will be very similar shades of the same dark brown.
A box at the top of the screen will reveal how you did.
It will tell you the target shade value, the matching color, and the difference between the two.
If your color perception is poor, the difference between the two will be high, while those with a keen eye could even achieve a perfect score of zero.
There are three levels in the game: easy, medium and hard.
7 colors must be combined to complete a level! (red, orange, yellow, green, turquoise, blue and purple)’, Colorlite explained.
A box will appear at the top of the screen to reveal how you did. It will tell you the target shade value, the matching color, and the difference between the two.
‘To advance to the next level, the average difference must be less than 8!’
As you’ve probably guessed, the colors become increasingly difficult to match as you progress through the game.
For example, in the first round of the Easy level, you will be tasked with adjusting a bright pink rectangle to match a dark blue rectangle.
But in the first round of the Hard level, the two rectangles will be very similar shades of the same blue-black, making it very difficult to tell them apart.
WHAT IS DELBOEUF’S ILLUSION?
The Delboeuf illusion is a type of visual illusion in which a dot surrounded by a large ring is generally perceived as smaller than the dot of the same size surrounded by a small ring.
This optical trick works because your brain perceives the dot in the context of the outer ring.
It owes its name to the Belgian philosopher and mathematician Joseph Remi Leopold Delboeuf (1831 – 1896), who created it in 1865.
The Delboeuf illusion is a type of visual illusion in which a dot surrounded by a large ring is generally perceived as smaller than the dot of the same size surrounded by a small ring.
In terms of plate size, the theory goes that having a smaller plate makes people believe they have more food.
However, new research suggests that when people are hungry, they can accurately identify the portion of food, no matter how it is served.
According to the researchers, this indicates that hunger stimulates stronger analytical processing that is not so easily fooled by the illusion.
However, the Delboeuf illusion is widely believed to work in other contexts.