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| But it is not clear why this should be so. For example, there is nothing in the physics of light to preclude some cultures from choosing an oranger red or a more turquoisey blue. "Physics really has nothing to do with it," says Kay. |
Leave it to computer scientists to complete ignore the impact of biology.
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| Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 12:26 pm |
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surely the bluest blue and the reddest read etc, only have to do with the way we measure light with RGB rods and cones?
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oh wait that's what ballistic said.
also interesting:
for some weird reason, something to do with harmonics or some other weird shit, once you start getting to the edge of visible spectrum, one particular colour cone inadvertently starts being electrically triggered by 'the wrong colour/wavelength' and some particular shades of purples and blues are an artifact of the cones system rather than being a 'real' colour. IE. If red cone only measured red and green only green as they are characterised to behave etc, then certain colours we perceive would not exist. I haven't got the book to hand so that's proably vague to the point of being meaningless. |
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| Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 8:23 am |
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interesting ....
most ...... interesting ...
so what this research is implying is that nature has 'wired' our brains in a certain way so that we would know that the bluest of blue is .. blue ... and the reddest of reds .. is red ... mmmm ...
mmmm .... ah.... |
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| Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 1:54 pm |
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And for people who are color blind, this means what, exactly?
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