Afterimage Lab Report

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The objective of this project is to use afterimages to investigate color perception in the human eye. Afterimages are the sights you see whenever you stare at a light for too long. Everybody has probably experienced an afterimage. The hypothesis of this experiment is if you look at a bright image for 5 seconds, then the afterimage will be 9 seconds because the afterimage always lasts longer than the amount of time you stare at the image. The control of this experiment is staring at the red image for 5 seconds. The independent variable is how long you stare at the image. The dependent variable is how long the afterimage appears.The constants of this project will be the same light and image and the same eye.
(KidsHealth.org, 2013) How does an eye work? Well the first thing that light passes through is the cornea. The cornea is a dome of clear tissue. The cornea’s job is to focus on the light as it passes through. The color part of the eye is the iris. The Iris is behind the cornea, and in …show more content…

“An afterimage is a type of optical illusion in which an image continues to appear briefly even after exposure to the actual image has ended.” (abouthealth.com, 2016). There are different types of afterimages as well. The two main types of afterimages is a positive afterimage, and a negative afterimage. The difference between the two is obvious. When the colors of the original stimulus are retained, the afterimage is a positive afterimage. When the colors in the afterimage appear to be reversed, it is a negative afterimage. For someone to experience an example of a positive afterimage right now, they would just stare at a very brightly lit scene or screen, and then close their eyes. When the person closes their eyes you will see the same image you saw before with the original colors. For someone to experience an example of a negative afterimage, they would stare at a red image, and close their eyes. Once they close their eyes they will see a green

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