try to imagine a new colour
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something along these lines would be equivalent to seeing magnetic fields it's pretty-much unimaginable
the closest thing i can think of is when cameras are tuned incorrectly and they send white light to the screen when they see ultra violet or infra-red sources, it's so much brighter for them than it is for you it will just make your eyes ache.
anyhoo..
it's like asking someone what blue is if you are totally colour blind its impossible to make sense of it
the closest thing i can think of is when cameras are tuned incorrectly and they send white light to the screen when they see ultra violet or infra-red sources, it's so much brighter for them than it is for you it will just make your eyes ache.
anyhoo..
it's like asking someone what blue is if you are totally colour blind its impossible to make sense of it
Never tried it with a colour, though I've gone through it in theory often enough because of trying to figure out the relationship between experience and the raw data.
I mean, I could trivially construct a computer that can interpret 6 colours.
as in primary colours. We have 3 colour receptors, which pretty much define what the primary colours are, but that doesn't really make much sense of what results when you mix them together - Interestingly though, most of those mixtures are visible looking at distinct frequencies of light between any two primaries.
Purple is the odd one out, since, using colour mixing, purple is created by mixing red and blue, yet using pure light it results from colours beyond blue on the spectrum.
A mathematical example of computers using more than 3 colours is found with printers, most of which are CMYK...
But that doesn't really answer anything.
Another, slightly easier trick is trying to visualise multidimensional shapes.
Hypercubes in particular aren't that difficult to imagine, as long as you don't get into extremes. 4d hypercubes are easy, but a 6d cube is already very complex.
But... I think that works because what you're visualising is a set of projections of a 4d object.
That's less of a problem to deal with because we routinely deal with projections.
We don't actually see in 3d, we see in 3d reconstructed from 2 independent two-dimensional projections of a 3d space.
You can mentally project a 4d object into a 3d space, then project that 3d projection into 2d, and suddenly you can visualise at least something about a 4d object.
But... With colours, those kind of manipulations don't seem like they work very well.
I mean, I could trivially construct a computer that can interpret 6 colours.
as in primary colours. We have 3 colour receptors, which pretty much define what the primary colours are, but that doesn't really make much sense of what results when you mix them together - Interestingly though, most of those mixtures are visible looking at distinct frequencies of light between any two primaries.
Purple is the odd one out, since, using colour mixing, purple is created by mixing red and blue, yet using pure light it results from colours beyond blue on the spectrum.
A mathematical example of computers using more than 3 colours is found with printers, most of which are CMYK...
But that doesn't really answer anything.
Another, slightly easier trick is trying to visualise multidimensional shapes.
Hypercubes in particular aren't that difficult to imagine, as long as you don't get into extremes. 4d hypercubes are easy, but a 6d cube is already very complex.
But... I think that works because what you're visualising is a set of projections of a 4d object.
That's less of a problem to deal with because we routinely deal with projections.
We don't actually see in 3d, we see in 3d reconstructed from 2 independent two-dimensional projections of a 3d space.
You can mentally project a 4d object into a 3d space, then project that 3d projection into 2d, and suddenly you can visualise at least something about a 4d object.
But... With colours, those kind of manipulations don't seem like they work very well.
Human creativity . . . isn't. We don't create anything, we merely rearrange things we've seen, or do things randomly. That's why we are so reliant on "inspiration", we need to synthesize new stimuli in order to "create" something. It's like a puzzle sort of, you can perhaps rearrange the pieces a number of different ways, but eventually you start running out of possible combinations. Add a single new piece, and all of a sudden you have a good many more things you can do.
Thoroughout my childhood I attempted this so many times. It all ends up being different shades of preexisting colours
When I was younger and had access to the paint eisel at daycare, I remember I would mix a bunch of paints together trying to accomplish EXACTLY THIS. Imagine the headline: "FIVE-YEAR-OLD CREATES NEW COLOUR, SCIENTISTS SHOCKED".
When the daycare workers asked me what I was drawing I said "Nothing," hoping it would be a surprise when I finally did it, so all they saw was a blob of dark brown on the canvas.
Come to think of it, they must have been kind of worried.
When the daycare workers asked me what I was drawing I said "Nothing," hoping it would be a surprise when I finally did it, so all they saw was a blob of dark brown on the canvas.
Come to think of it, they must have been kind of worried.
Golden Purple King's Blood Gerfarblenaut. It's like the Cthulu of colors. If you see it,you go insane and thus cannot tell others what it looks like. Only a selected few have seen it and remained sane,then they were immediately killed. This is a color I heard once in a myth which is why I can tell you all about it now.
It is indeed the fourth option: a duality-- acting like a particle in some ways, yet still displaying wavelike behavior in others.Captain Underbeard said:
You can fire a single photon at a target and measure it-- a bullet hitting a wall.
You can put a box with two slits, and fire one photon at a time at those slits. Even though only one photon was in the box at any time, the particle INTERFERES WITH ITSELF.
woah
Alternately, white is absence of all color, and black is presence of all color. Depends on whether you're using an additive or subtractive system (i.e. light or pigment based).let said:
Anyway, I'm partially color blind, so I imagine new (to me) colors would look like the stuff normal people see that I have issues with. Heh.
