Interesting Facts
A patent for a color printer that claims to compensate for the Abney effect was published in 1995.
The Abney effect must be taken into account when designing the cockpit for modern fighter planes. The colors viewed on the screen become desaturated when white light strikes the screen, so special considerations are made to counteract the Abney effect.
A wide array of spectral colors exist that can be made to exactly match a pure color by adding various levels of white light.
It remains unknown whether the Abney effect is a resulting phenomenon that occurs by chance during color perception or the effect plays a deliberate function in the way the eye codes for color.
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