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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 moate »

stainablesteel wrote: post #224
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…

it's either blue, or it's green. pick a side, coward

Ambiguity scaring the shit out of engineers is giving me life on this blah of a Monday.

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by chirayuk »

"Your boundary is at hue 181, bluer than 87% of the population.

For you, turquoise is green."

Took it 3 times (90%, 85%, 87%). At least, I now know why sometimes I'm surprised that people call green things blue :)

To be honest, there should have been a "neither" category, because that was frustrating to classify a color that is clearly neither. But I understand the need for a binary choice for this experiment.

Turquoise `#40E0D0 ` feels green to me, while Dark Turquoise `#00CED1` , I can agree to consider as blue.

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by chirayuk »

danbmil99 wrote: post #114

Dunno if this is a late-in-life thing or I was always like this, but I definitely need more blue to see blue than most (this test put me at 82%, I think that means I'm in the lowest quintile for seeing blue?) Bright blue still looks mighty blue, but when light is dim, I basically see black where most would still see blue. Practical ramifications: * Some of my 'black' shirts are blue when it's sunny * Popular desktop…

I'm at 87%. How would you classify Turquoise (`#40e0d0`) and Dark Turqoise (`#00CED1`)?

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by Suppafly »

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 them to choose one or the other doesn't give you any valuable information.

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by WesleyJohnson »

cbarrick wrote: post #142
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…

Have I got a Wikipedia article for you! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia

Amazing. I'm so glad to have a name for this.

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by Suppafly »

ecshafer wrote: post #249
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…

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.

I only know chartreuse from fishing lures.

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by WesleyJohnson »

14 wrote: post #170
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 shap…

Oh wow, I hadn't thought of taste, but you're exactly right. Fascinating subject.

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by sbinnee »

In Korean, we have an adjective "푸르다". It is somewhere between blue and green. You can say trees are that, oceans are that. It also means unripe.

Yeah, so to me, tortoise is definitely blue.

Edit: typo tortoise -> turquoise

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