“In NEURON I have used unconventional filmmaking techniques to explore certain perceptual and acoustical anomalies. It was not my intention to create gimmickry or “effects" with this approach, but rather to develop techniques that would contribute to a personal and expressive form of animated film. By using the single-frame technique, certain kinds of strobing perceptual phenomena can be mechanically diagrammed in time to produce unusual filmic color structures. These structures have their own synthetic quality — a luminous appearance — which cannot be produced in other art forms. In NEURON I basically used two techniques to achieve these effects: (1) color afterimage, an illusion produced from animated black-and-white patterns, and (2) optical color mixture, a form of temporal pointillism.”- Robert Russett
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