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Land effect

a demonstration used to develop the retinex theory of color vision. To produce the effect, a multicolored scene is photographed with black and white film, once through a red filter and once through a blue–green filter. When the resulting images are projected simultaneously onto a screen through the opposite filter used to photograph the image, the original multicolored scene is perceived. [Edwin Herbert Land (1909–1991), U.S. inventor]

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hyperorexia

hyperorexia

n. a pathologically increased appetite. See also bulimia. Compare hyporexia.