This thought-provoking piece will have you questioning your understanding of light and colour. When viewing the image through a prism normally, the cross will turn blue and yellow and the wings will be cyan and red. However if you rotate the prism 90 degrees counter clockwise, perpendicular to the horizontal position, the colours swap and…

Two Hearts is a colour swap. The Heart of the top left is green and magenta, and the heart on the bottom right is red and cyan. However when viewed through a prism, the colours swap magenta becomes red and red becomes magenta, green becomes cyan, and cyan becomes green. When the image above is…

Adjective – bi•co•lō•rus; having two colours. of two colours. It may not look like that now, but this image is actually a bicolōrus image. Or at least it is when viewed through a prism. Ignoring black and white, in its current form, the image has a multitude of colours; red, yellow, green, cyan, blue and…

Phyllotaxis is spiraling swirls full of colours including red, yellow, green, cyan, blue and magenta. Each branch of the spirals are at different angles to the viewer, and spiral inwards towards the center. Yet, as the light passes through the prism, it almost magically seems to know where all the colour is and, erases all…

Septette is an example a biangular viewing graphic in which the colours change depending on the orientation of the prism. In this example, the prism can be held either horizontally or vertically. When the prism is held horizontally, the outer septette is blue and yellow and the inner septette is cyan and red. Howeve, when…

As the name suggests, Biangular can be viewed by holding the prism at 2 different viewing angles; horizontally and vertically. Depending on which angle you are viewing it at determines what the resulting colours will be. Prism Held HorizontallyTypically when viewing prism art we hold the prism horizontally, and when the prism is held this…

What secrets lie hidden amongst the leaves in Colour Correction? The colour changes are sure to keep you guessing unless you know the secret behind prism art. In this graphic, all of the colours in the leaves of the rings start off as red and cyan. Red is on the top, and cyan is on…

You won’t believe your eyes when you see this transformation. Take notice on this image how the colours have been shifted so that magenta is on the top, and green on the bottom on both sides of the image. Yet, when revealed through a prism, each side turn different colours. On the left, the magenta…

Tres amigos is an interesting piece that starts with 3 differently coloured figures that all turn the same colours when viewed correctly through a prism. Can your guess what the resulting colours will be? Watch as the light shifts through the prism; red and magenta appear to turn blue, while cyan and green turn yellow.…