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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 parpfish »

I've got a color question that I need some opinions on:

When I look at the green/blue boundary region on an HSV color wheel like the ones in this S/O thread [0], it appears as a white un-saturated region.

If I look at similar layouts in other colorspaces (e.g., something perceptually uniform like Lab) I don't generally see this white patch.

My question is: - I'm colorblind. Do other people also see a white patch there? - If this is a genuine problem with HSV, is there an explanation for why there's a hue angle that is unsaruated regardless of S value?

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62531754/how-to-draw-a-h...

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by nodompa »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #146

I never understood "forced classification" games like this (as an aside, it's also why I always hated Myers Briggs). Maybe it's because I'm somewhere on the spectrum, but it always seems like a dumb, false choice to me. For example, when I saw the second color, "aqua" immediately popped into my mind. Aqua is literally defined as #00FFFF in RGB color space - no red, equal (max) parts blue and green. So it just felt li…

But what about the definition of aqua outside of any digital color space?

I feel like using only RGB values to define 'aqua' is a bit reductive as it is merely a specification in a specific environment trying to render a type of color but with inherent limitations such as not being able to reproduce the whole spectrum, color accuracy on the display, etc. etc. there's a lot of other parameters along with your own individual color perception that goes beyond "it's equal values blue and green within the RGB color-space"

But then as I list all these things I think I arrive at the same conclusion as you, it feels like a dumb false choice haha

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by Izmaki »

itishappy wrote: post #107
bitexploder wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am bluer than 78%. Colors. How do they work.

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.

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by ZeWaka »

armada651 wrote: post #136
smokedetector1 wrote: post #2

The other week my wife and I were disagreeing over whether a house was green or blue. I was shocked when every passerby we asked agreed with her that it was green. I was absolutely 100% sure it was blue. Turns out according to this site, my boundary is greener than 95% of the population! Funny to see this proved out here!

Many languages considered green and blue so closely related that they grouped them together under a single term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction...

grue

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by Grimblewald »

gumby271 wrote: post #122

"for you, turquoise is blue." Well no, it's turquoise, that's why we gave it a whole different word.

Agree, this seemed silly. It seems to be more a question of "would you say turquise is blue or green?" Rather than a question of our blues match. Better imo would be to ask something like paired colours and pick the "more blue" one. Cool idea for a website, but imo poorly formulated.

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by ok_computer »

parpfish wrote: post #161

I've got a color question that I need some opinions on: When I look at the green/blue boundary region on an HSV color wheel like the ones in this S/O thread [0], it appears as a white un-saturated region. If I look at similar layouts in other colorspaces (e.g., something perceptually uniform like Lab) I don't generally see this white patch. My question is: - I'm colorblind. Do other people also see a white patch ther…

Don’t use hsv color wheel to intuit color space. CIE x,y $year_standard is superior to view color space and understand the tricolor values Z = f(X,Y) in every way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE_1931_color_space

I think the bands you’re referring to are an artifact.

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by kasey_junk »

parpfish wrote: post #161

I've got a color question that I need some opinions on: When I look at the green/blue boundary region on an HSV color wheel like the ones in this S/O thread [0], it appears as a white un-saturated region. If I look at similar layouts in other colorspaces (e.g., something perceptually uniform like Lab) I don't generally see this white patch. My question is: - I'm colorblind. Do other people also see a white patch ther…

I’m not color blind and see a white barrier between 3 sections(it looks like a 3 piece pie) with lines at the green/blue red/blue and green/yellow boundaries.

No idea why

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by 14 »

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…

I have thought about this many times. The same could be asked about other senses as well like taste, do we both interpret the taste of a banana the same?

At the end of the day what exactly are our senses? Are they simply our brains interpretation of the energies that surround us?

Apparently about 4.4% of the population experiences chromesthesia in which they have a blending of their senses and will see colors or shapes when hearing music.

My opinion is that it is impossible to know and if I had to bet I would bet that we all experience things slightly different. That is only based on the thought that from an evolutionary standpoint we already have many diverse traits from one another. It's another one of those philosophical thoughts we most likely could never answer.

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