Benham's Top and Fechner Colors

Benham's top is a demonstration of inducing colors using only black and white stimuli. These pages introduce the topic and give you a couple of ways you can experience it.

Choices:

• Background and General Information
• A Version That Can be Seen on Netscape 2.0 and Later. It uses an animated gif image but while Internet Explorer runs animated gifs extremely well, the gifs run to slow to illustrate this phenomenon.
• The construction of the current version.
• A little Benham's Top Study
• A page on Benham's Top at the Exploratorium which can be set up to run at home

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