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    Quizzical Pursuit
    —The Architecture Puzzler

    Created by Dave Guadagni

    Solution to Last Week's Puzzler
    Architecture Puzzler #458

    Question

    If you placed a small, primary-colored red disk on a light-gray neutral background, stared at the disk for a full minute, and then quickly pulled away the disk, you would continue to see a colored disk at the same spot. What color would you see?

    Answer

    You would be experiencing an optical effect known as negative afterimage, and would see yellow, which is the complementary hue to red, found directly across the color wheel.
     


     

    Okay, got it? Now try this week's Puzzler:

    http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/quiz.html


     

    Dave Guadagni, AIA, is an architect with Robertson/Sherwood/Architects

    Quizzical Pursuit is Copyright 2010, Dave Guadagni.

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