J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis. 2020 Apr 01;37(4):A114-A121. doi: 10.1364/JOSAA.381611.

The effect of tissue paper on the color appearance of colored papers.

Journal of the Optical Society of America. A, Optics, image science, and vision

Mitsuo Ikeda, Chanprapha Phuangsuwan

PMID: 32400525 DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.381611

Abstract

A sheet of tissue paper can change color appearance. Various colors were observed through tissues, and the appearance was quantitatively measured by the elementary color naming method. The saturation decreased with tissues, but the color appearance was fairly vivid in spite of a marked decrease of excitation purity, suggesting that visual mechanisms neglect the white color appearance to judge the color behind the tissue. A tissue was applied to the simultaneous color contrast stimulus, and a vivid color appeared on the central gray patch, which otherwise appeared just gray. The analysis of the color appearance of both the surround and the test patch suggested that the simultaneous color contrast phenomenon is a result of chromatic adaptation to the color of the surround.

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