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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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throwup238 wrote: post #288
harrall wrote: post #276

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People are freaking out about this test like it’s some judgement of their character or something. I just picked “green” or “blue” without thinking. The biggest problem here is that people have wildly uncalibrated monitors that often have color cast tints. I color calibrate my monitors and even my factory calibrated MacBook has a slight green tint. People should also do hue differentiation tests like this one to see i…

> The biggest problem here is that people have wildly uncalibrated monitors that often have color cast tints. I color calibrate my monitors and even my factory calibrated MacBook has a slight green tint. Even if anyone actually calibrated their screens, many cheap monitor panels are so shitty the calibration can’t help. I bought two 4K LG monitors at the same time and based on serial numbers, they’re likely from the…

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Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by harrall »

dotancohen wrote: post #299
harrall wrote: post #276

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People are freaking out about this test like it’s some judgement of their character or something. I just picked “green” or “blue” without thinking. The biggest problem here is that people have wildly uncalibrated monitors that often have color cast tints. I color calibrate my monitors and even my factory calibrated MacBook has a slight green tint. People should also do hue differentiation tests like this one to see i…

By what method would you suggest calibrating one's monitor? I use Debian Linux if that's a factor.

You can do it on Linux but you need to buy a device you attach to your monitor. I have a Spyder X Pro but there are others.

It’s like $200 and it’s not worth it unless you do color sensitive work (photo editing, printing or video editing) and you have an expensive monitor or expensive laptop with good color support. Many monitors will fail so badly the calibration won’t be able to fix it.

But if you’ve ever had a lot of trouble trying to get colors to match when printing or between devices, it could be a godsend, although it’s only one of the many reasons colors might not match.

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by red369 »

excalibur wrote: post #274
ecshafer wrote: post #249

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My daughter was watching Blue's Clues. They were doing color combinations (red + blue = purple, yellow + blue = green, etc). They then also did a further step, blue + green = cyan, and did green + yellow = chartreuse. Now maybe its my male engineer brain, but I haven't heard of that color in 36 years, but it does make sense and it is rather distinct.

> When we want violet, we know just what to do. Just mix our good friends purple and blue. I still refuse to believe that purple and violet are different colors.

I agreed with you, and then went to the Wikipedia pages for both. I might have changed my mind now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_(color)

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by red369 »

croisillon wrote: post #297
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…

let's be honest, orange is really a burnt yellow

Orange is bright brown!

By the way, my comment is entirely in jest.

I would struggle to have to choose between only the words "red" and "yellow" to describe orange colours. Except for the orange fruit. I'm happy calling those yellow.

But the YCombinator logo? Yellowish red?

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by vigilantpuma »

somenameforme wrote: post #296
ImprovedSilence wrote: post #215

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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.

That's like saying there's no hard line between e.g. white and gray, or even white and black if we take it to an extreme. And that is accurate, if you slowly shift between the two then people will claim a transition at slightly different points, but it's entirely meaningless because it's (getting back to the blue/green example) not like anybody is going to insist 'no that's blue!' or 'no that's green!' It's obvious t…

Actually people will definitely insist on "no that's blue" or "no that's green." My husband and I have frequent disagreements about a specific shade of blue/green. I think it's blue. He thinks it's green.

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by guidopallemans »

Suppafly wrote: post #266
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…

>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. This, it commonly gets reposted on reddit and the colorblind sub, but it's basically worthless because most people acknowledge that there is a color between blue and green and forcing the…

> most people acknowledge that there is a color between blue and green

For many people, there is no difference between blue and green at all!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction...

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