Stereograms 6

Stereograms 6

since May 1, 2024

"Colorful Resonance of Love: A Symphony of Intertwined Hearts"

This artwork is an artistic interpretation of an explanatory diagram that clearly illustrates the fundamental principle of color theory: “In additive color mixing, white is the color produced by combining the three primary colors—red, green, and blue.” The artwork is presented in the shape of a heart.

In this piece, hearts drawn in the three primary colors are positioned with slight offsets. These offsets are carefully designed to create binocular disparity, which refers to the differences in the retinal images perceived by each eye. In other words, this artwork functions as a stereogram. When viewed through a stereoscope or by using naked-eye stereoscopic techniques (such as cross-eyed or parallel viewing) to fuse the images, the hearts appear to be positioned at three distinct depths. In this arrangement, the hearts that appear in the foreground and middle depth planes exhibit a transparent quality.

Lastly, the title of this work was directly inspired by a suggestion from ChatGPT (GPT-4o), which provided the name after analyzing the image and being prompted to “please come up with a wonderful title for this image.”

"No binocular rivarly"

The eye in the left image appears to be yellowish but are gray (R128, G128, B128). The eye in the right image is yellow (R255, G255, B0). When these two images are binocularly fused and observed, it would seem that binocular rivalry (a visual field conflict) would occur because the colors are different between the two eyes, but this almost never happens.

"Binocular rivarly occurs"

The eye in the left image appears to be yellowish but are gray (R128, G128, B128). The eye in the right image is the same gray. When these two images are binocularly fused and observed, it would not seem that binocular rivalry would occur because the colors are the same between the two eyes, but this occurs. It is suggested that the critical factor of binocular rivarly might be perceptual rather than physical.