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Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by gcanyon »

MichaelDickens wrote: post #182
sudobash1 wrote: post #179

As other commenters here have noted, I found this interesting but a little frustrating. The second color it asks about is clearly cyan (or turquoise). For me, this is like showing an orange screen and asking if it is red or yellow. I understand that across cultures "orange" does not exist as a distinctly named color (it only got its name in most European languages around the 1500s), but as someone who was trained sin…

Logically I understand that cyan is directly between green and blue, but my brain believes it's 100% blue.

funny thing is that I would have said cyan was blue going into this, but the outcome had me classifying the boundary at "more blue than 93% of the population" -- meaning that I classed cyan as green when asked, without even remotely questioning it.

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by gcanyon »

Izmaki wrote: post #164
itishappy wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blue his house With a blue little window And a blue Corvette And everything is blue for him And himself and everybody around 'Cause he ain't got nobody to listen (to listen) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BinWA0EenDY

It’s 01:30 in the night you cannot just drop lyrics like that, I’ll have the song stuck in my head for hours.. :( For this, you just lost The Game.

You bastard.

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by stevenhuang »

humanfromearth9 wrote: post #149
WesleyJohnson wrote: post #129

I'm sure this isn't an original thought, but I wonder how others see colors. Irrespective of color blindness, is what I know as red appear as blue to someone else? How would you even know or describe it? "Red, like a strawberry, tomato, or apple." And they say, "Yes, exactly." But what they're truly seeing is what YOU know as blue. They see something different than you do, but to them that color has always been calle…

Chemistry is the same for each of us, as is physics, so I'd be inclined to think that red is the same red for everyone.

You'd be inclined to, but no, of the little we do understand about human perception, we do understand enough by now to say that different people can genuinely experience and perceive the world differently, sometimes wildly so.

Look into aphantasia (lack of mental imagery), anendophasia (lack of inner voice).

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by olpad »

sudobash1 wrote: post #179

As other commenters here have noted, I found this interesting but a little frustrating. The second color it asks about is clearly cyan (or turquoise). For me, this is like showing an orange screen and asking if it is red or yellow. I understand that across cultures "orange" does not exist as a distinctly named color (it only got its name in most European languages around the 1500s), but as someone who was trained sin…

Red vs orange vs yellow is not the same as green vs cyan vs blue though. Red and orange and yellow are the same distance on the color wheel as green and blue and purple, so you could do this same thing with red/red-orange/orange or the orange to yellow spectrum exclusively.

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by ImprovedSilence »

sudobash1 wrote: post #179

As other commenters here have noted, I found this interesting but a little frustrating. The second color it asks about is clearly cyan (or turquoise). For me, this is like showing an orange screen and asking if it is red or yellow. I understand that across cultures "orange" does not exist as a distinctly named color (it only got its name in most European languages around the 1500s), but as someone who was trained sin…

I mean, that's the whole point of this exercise. In reality there is no hard line between green and blue, and if you make someone pick, their line is going to be entirely subjective, and different than others.

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by defrost »

Izmaki wrote: post #164
itishappy wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blue his house With a blue little window And a blue Corvette And everything is blue for him And himself and everybody around 'Cause he ain't got nobody to listen (to listen) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BinWA0EenDY

It’s 01:30 in the night you cannot just drop lyrics like that, I’ll have the song stuck in my head for hours.. :( For this, you just lost The Game.

The only effective ear bleach for that is, say, German Weimar Republic era cabaret Orchester; eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bPh9CitHJs

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by MarkLowenstein »

sega_sai wrote: post #34

One thing that I find interesting when thinking about colour perception, is that even if two people agree that a given colour is red, there is no way to know (as far as I am aware) that they actually perceive it in the same way. Maybe the brain of one person paints it red, and another paints it differently, and there is no way to know as we can't get into other people's heads.

My suggestion is always to look at what colors people think "go together". A Westerner looking at a Chinese temple will say "ugh, saturated red, light blue, and gold, all together?" My own self looking at a shirt my Eastern European wife loves: "dark blue, gray, and orange, bleah". It suggests that depending on your culture, you may have adopted a different visual response, where blood color is harmonious with sky color, or something like that.

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by ImprovedSilence »

reactordev wrote: post #80
xmprt wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OP's point is that this isn't valid because neither of the answers are correct. If you're really trying to measure a spectrum then the answers should allow for fuzziness. That is, you have a range/confidence interval of where green ends and where blue starts and in between is neither/both.

correctness is not the point. binary choice is the whole point. because my blue may not be your blue...

It's so remarkable how many people here refuse to understand your point. It's like, there is no right or wrong, no perfect score, just pure subjectiveness, and they can't handle it. If I wasn't convinced this site is entirely bots before, I might be now....

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by Night_Thastus »

This is also going to be very difficult because:

* HDR vs SDR mode

* Different monitors have different color replication ranges

* Monitor and OS color and brightness controls (brightness affects color perception)

* Interior lighting

* Monitor technology (LCD, OLED, etc)

Meaning even if a color was meant to be X, it just won't appear that way given the combinations above.

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