apart from not giving the "neither" option of turquoise, you cannot just line up asking without neutralising perception in between eg. with a non blue/green and then white before the next test. Color perception is >relative< not just across individuals, not sure how someone interested enough in blue perception does not understand this.
Is my blue your blue? (2024)
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Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)
#342As 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…
There are no "cyan-receptors" on your retina so it's not a cultural thing, it's a bio-physics one.
Plus as many mentioned the calibration of you display has propably a way higher impact on this than anything else.
So don't be upset, it's just for fun :)
Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)
#343As 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…
While "orange" did not exist as a single word in most languages, already in Old English or even in Latin or Ancient Greek one could find mentions about things that were "red-yellow".
Moreover, in ancient languages there were very few words that designed just a color, with no other meaning for the word, but it was very frequent to use words derived from the names of various things, which meant "of the color of the X thing".
For instance it was frequent to say that some things were "of the color of fire". Most likely this was intended to say that they were orange. For red objects one would have said "of the color of blood", while for yellow objects one would have said "of the color of sulfur" or "of the color of gold". "Of the color of saffron" is also likely to have meant "orange", though saffron may have many hues, from reddish to yellowish, depending on how it is prepared.
Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)
#344As 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…
This test is really using how English organizes color. In English, blue and green are basic color terms ([ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Color_Terms ]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Color_Terms )). You're right that we would have trouble with an orange screen if we were asked to call it red or yellow, but that's because orange is also a basic color term in English. Other languages draw those boundaries in…
Thanks, this seemed obvious to me too. But I would add, this could apply to orange too - there are a lot of orange tones between yellow and red, and if you likewise wanted to determine your subjective boundary, which this is only about, you would be able to say "rather red for me" or "rather yellow for me", regardless of the intermediate color. Since the space of colors can be described as convex, so to speak, you can between every two arbitrary colors determine your subjective decision boundary, regardless of any color in between. The premise is just accepting to ignore those colors.
Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)
#345it's a neat experiment but I think it's ultimately flawed because color is usually perceived in context, and depending on context I could easily see anyone reinterpreting the hues they labeled "green" in this test as blue, and vice versa. EDIT: in general, blue is a pretty fascinating color. yes, many cultures have a somewhat blurry distinction between blue and green. Some others seem to differentiate shades of blue…
we used to not have a word for orange. we called it yellow red. then this new fruit arrived from India
Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)
#346> For you, the turquoise is green!
No, turquoise is turquoise. You gave me two options, and you act like I didn't know that word exists
Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)
#347Despite all the (valid) criticisms here I just wanted to say that this is a really cool Idea and well executed imo. Thanks for sharing!
Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)
#348Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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)
Purple has a lot more red. (157, 0, 255) vs. (128, 0, 255). Good to have learned something today...
Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)
#349Witgeinstein's Beetle xD
Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)
#350As others have pointed out, the 2nd color is not something I would call either blue or green. Except for the first, it never showed anything I would call blue. So really I have told it the border where I still call something green. So is my green your green?