When a black room (a room painted black and filled with objects painted black) is viewed through a veiling luminance, how does it appear? Prior work on black rooms and white rooms suggests the room will appear white because mutual illumination in the high-reflectance white room lowers image contrast, and the veil also lowers image contrast. Other work reporting high lightness constancy for three-dimensional scenes viewed through a veil suggests the veil will not make the room appear lighter. Because mutual illumination also modifies the pattern of luminance gradients across the room while the veil does not, we were able to tease apart local luminance gradients from overall luminance contrast by presenting observers with a black room viewed through a veiling luminance. The room appeared white, and no veil was perceived. This suggests that lightness judgments in a room of one reflectance depend on overall luminance contrast only.

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