Colors

[Heep]

Every wonder if my blue is your red?

We may both look at a car we both agree to be blue. I've grown up knowing the color I see on the car as blue. But you see the car as what I call red. But you grew up recognizing my red as blue. So we both call it blue, even though I would call it red if I looked through your eyes.

Get it?

[enzo@af]

Yes, I've wondered that before too.

And, even though we've done eye-transplants, we can never really know because it would be how the brain recognizes it, eh?

[JD@af]

Yes I've wondered the same thing many times myself. I have a friend who is partially color blind and cannot distinguish blues from greys, but naturally most people can distinguish between different colors. But it is a large assumption to think that all people see them the same. For example, I've always thought that "yellow" lights (at intersections) appear more close to orange, while I know many who insist they are yellow. I am assuming this is a bit of a grey area between people's different visions. You can find that a lot of in-between colors (like sahdes of turquoise and aqua blue) may be described differently by different people, largely because of differences in their respective visions. Interesting argument!

[MBTN]

Generally, women see colors better than men, so if they say your clothes don't match, they are right!

[texan]

another interesting thing about color is that people who work with it all the time (designers, painters, people like me who do digital retouching) can generally distinguish between much more subtle variations than the average person. I read one study that said color professionals can see up to ten times more tonal variation than the average human. And I've noticed this many times sitting with clients making color changes, where I will make very small moves to color that they don't even see reliably (yet I can see just fine). Seeing color is just like anything else evidently, the more you focus on it the better your sight skills become in seeing it.

[LakeMountLude]

well actually not to get scientific and ruin the fun but its all based on wavelengths.. and when you go to the dr to get your ice checked that is pretty much waht he is checking is how well your eyes can interprit those wavelengths.. a human eye can only see a small scall of the spectrum called the "visible spectrum" above it you have ultra violet and below you have things like radio waves.. it also has to do with pigment which change the regular suns light into a different wavelength, as it is reflected off this small particle, into a diff wavelenth.. well that is what my damn biology teacher told me anyways.. but hell the guy is weird

[Heep]

heh

That doesn't answer the question or theory though.

[LakeMountLude]

well actually it does... see because they have tested that peoples eyes can pick up a certain wavelength... and they know for sure that pigment changes lights wavelenth (which appears white cause all colors are mixed) and reflects only a certain wavelength which your eye picks up and decifers, but they have done many tests on this.. i saw it in one of the recent scientific americans.. but that is just me quoting them im not saying im a scientist

[Porsche]

How do designers and painters get there 10X better tonal distingiushing ability?

[MBTN]

They adapt and EVOLVE that way I guess. Unless god makes them see better...

[LakeMountLude]

oh god here we go again .. i think we should stay clear of your last two posts haha... or else we are going to have one long and tedious thread ... i say we wait to see someone elses opinon before any of us reply haha..

[MBTN]

w00t!

[Heep]

Yeah, lets stay out of evolution/creation here.

And I, a creationist, agree that artist's eyes have adapted, through practice and training, to see the different colors, if God made them that way, they would have always been like that (contradicting normal, say, accountants that switch to being artists halfway down the road). Same as those people that have slowly trained their nose to distinguish like 5000+ smells.

[MBTN]

It's all in how you are brought up I guess. It's probably because those people just spent their whole/most of lives doing something (generally) like looking at colors.

[LakeMountLude]

i agree!! hehe we agree for once lol.... well i wasn't really brought up as a christian.. i mean i went to church occassionally when i was little but after i was about 9 or 10 i stopped going... and really havent been since.. i guess i just chose it?