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Many experimental results have been reported which demonstrated deviation of the apparent lightness from the calculated lightness based on spectral reflectance, and these have caused debate among researchers as to the models to explain them. The judgement of lightness of objects that we see in the outside world is one of the most important tasks in our daily life. We proposed the recognized visual space of illumination, RVSI, as a three dimensional recognition constructed in the brain for the outside world, and showed that the apparent lightness was determined in relation to the size of the RVSI. In the present paper the concept was applied to various results of lightness experiments such as the White effect and simultaneous contrast, and based on the proposition that an observer first builds a three dimensional RVSI from a two dimensional pattern and the lightness of a test patch was judged in relation to the size of this RVSI, the results were then globally and nicely explained. A new demonstration of a pattern was proposed to give different apparent lightness for patches with the same physical lightness to strengthen the proposition. The importance of distinguishing between a test patch and a surrounding field was emphasized when one does a lightness experiment and interprets the results.
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Ikeda, M., Shinoda, H. & Mizokami, Y. Phenomena of Apparent Lightness Interpreted by the Recognized Visual Space of Illumination. OPT REV 5, 380–386 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10043-998-0380-6
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