Design Nomenclature / Color

Successive contrast

Also called afterimage, negative afterimage

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The shift induced by whatever the eye looked at just before. Fix on a saturated red, look away to white, and a cyan afterimage arrives: the red-sensitive response has fatigued and the opponent channel reports the residue. The same mechanism as simultaneous contrast, displaced in time rather than space.

A saturated red patch, a blank white field, and the cyan afterimage the red induces once the eye moves off it.

Not to be confused with

How this term connects

Chromatic adaptationComplementaryPurkinje shiftSimultaneous contrastSuccessive contrast
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