Do You See Yellow? Banana Video Goes Viral

An artist has tried to convince the Internet that colour is just an illusion, in his banana video.

Kenneth Morehouse’s clip is called Zebra Rainbow. You are supposed to watch it in a darkened room.

The banana flashes black and white and after a while, viewers should see yellow.

WARNING: Do not watch if you suffer from photosensitive epilepsy or are sensitive to flashing lights.

Kenneth Morehouse’s clip has got us all talking about colour (YouTube)

He said: “My video uses a very specific structure of frames, in specific rhythms to try to hold on to one colour.

“I was interested in how the viewer starts to question whether the colour is a physiological response to the structure of the video – or if a mental projection of colour is occurring.”

It has been compared to Benham’s Top – in which a spinning wheel starts off as looking black and white but ‘changes’ to green, if you stare at it long enough.

Morehouse’s concept is based on the notion that we typically associate bananas with being yellow.

Reminiscent of That Dress in a similar colour confusion viral sensation (was it blue and black - or white and gold?), this video tries to prove that colour is a construct of the mind.

Our brains decide what colour something is by taking in light from an object and throwing away light from surrounding ones.

So how you ‘see’ colour depends on how you process what is surrounding the thing you are looking at.

If you saw the dress as white and gold, you are more likely to experience the colours around the dress as dark.