try to imagine a new colour

[Clik]

Stop trying to lead us out of Plato's Cave!

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I thought Terry Pratchett inventing 'Octarine' was fun. That wierd purplish green colour you get when you close your eyes against light.

Does Octarine count? or do I have to make it up myself?

damn ninjad

Here's a cool site for you OP http://www.colourlovers.com/
basically lets you look at and create colours from hex codes....I use it for the sims 3 houses (im female don't judge me!)

They also have great articles on website design and the use of colour in marketing.

 

[Tim Mazzola]

I can think of a green-ish purple... I don't think I've ever seen that before. Probably exists tho.

 

[Adremmalech]

Infra-Violet-Glurpaple.

I can't even describe it

The entire visual spectrum is Infra-violet. It is also Ultra-red.
To imagine anything beyond our current visual range is as impossible as visualizing the fourth dimension.

 

[EightGaugeHippo]

As far as my knowledge of the visible light spectrum goes, it's impossible.

But the Disc world Novels spring to mind.

http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/Octarine

[Edit]
It doesn't come at a surprise that I was ninja'd.

 

[DasDestroyer]

You can't imagine a new color because you need some real-life basis, and since you can only see the colors that you, well, can see, there is no basis.

 

[Lilani]

Morange.
It's like orange, but with more Ms.

What an indecisive color.

Mmmm...orange.

 

[zehydra]

You want to make your head really hurt? Theres no such thing as color. Color is just wavelengths of light-- packets of energy. Our eyes resolve the differences of those energy packets, and the brain thus assigns colors to those packets of energy.

At the end of the day, color is a figment of your imagination. Simply tiny variations of quantized energy within a finite range.

kind of like sound.

 

[AMMO Kid]

There's already a video about this

 

[EHKOS]

This reminds me of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Colour Out of Space"
I just imagine the negative rainbow from Wild Arms 3.

 

[captaincabbage]

Trying to imagine. . . Brain hurting. . .

 

[Brainpalm]

Read the first Terry Pratchett Book, "The Colour of Magic". It has a new colour that is a combination of like purple and green or something. Just read it.

EDIT: Ninja'd.

 

[cfb_rolley]

thinking... thinking...

Gr... Brain... melting...

Almost....


AHA!!!
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hehe, seriously thoug, I dont know. maybe the shade that is beyond black or white.

I laughed pretty hard.

Is this an example of imagination actually being nothing new and original, but just the compilation and combination of pre-existing learned knowledge?

Hmm... On that form about stuff you can do that nobody believes you can do I mentioned how this was impossible already, not saying that inspired your post just mentioning that fun-fact. Your brain can't because it was only designed to interpret the colors your eyes can detect, andthing outside of the possible spectrim is beyond imagination, it would be unrealated to existing colors, beyond concievability. Some species of butterfly can see other colors, because their brains can interpret them. Ours can't

that thread started me thinking on this train of thought, but I hadn't seen that post yet.

 

[cfb_rolley]

thinking... thinking...

Gr... Brain... melting...

Almost....


AHA!!!
<youtube=z3DHZILHSLQ>

hehe, seriously thoug, I dont know. maybe the shade that is beyond black or white.

I laughed pretty hard.

Is this an example of imagination actually being nothing new and original, but just the compilation and combination of pre-existing learned knowledge?

Hmm... On that form about stuff you can do that nobody believes you can do I mentioned how this was impossible already, not saying that inspired your post just mentioning that fun-fact. Your brain can't because it was only designed to interpret the colors your eyes can detect, andthing outside of the possible spectrim is beyond imagination, it would be unrealated to existing colors, beyond concievability. Some species of butterfly can see other colors, because their brains can interpret them. Ours can't

that thread started me thinking on this train of thought, but I hadn't seen that post yet.

 

[emeraldrafael]

thinking... thinking...

Gr... Brain... melting...

Almost....


AHA!!!
<youtube=z3DHZILHSLQ>

hehe, seriously thoug, I dont know. maybe the shade that is beyond black or white.

I laughed pretty hard.

...

Yeah, their stuff is usually pretty funny. thats just one that was relevant.

 

[Baneat]

My head hurts...

A better question would be - how do you describe a colour to a blind person?

It's actually the same question, blind people are simply on the highest degree of restriction (blind to any kind of light) whereas we're all blind to everything but segment of wavelengths.

 

[ResonanceSD]

Right, so, I'm not talking about a new shade of purple or something like that.

Try to imagine a new colour, as in a completely new section in the spectrum of light colours. what would it look like? how could you describe it? has your brain fried yet or is it actually possible to "create" something that doesn't exist inside your head? I've tried to do this way too many times before and failed but if you can, then you're probably god, but even if you can't what name would you call this new colour?

The Colour of Magic, Greenish Purple.

 

[GraveeKing]

I tried, concentrated so hard. Then it was in my mind for a second.
Then my head exploded all over the wall and painted the walls with a boring red that we already know.

 

[Grayjack]

Kwenzie-Epsilon-X3442-Lepiger

It's kinda like a Yutsat, but more Pwuvly.