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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 FrustratedMonky »

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…

This is the point, isn't it?

Why does 'turquoise' or 'orange' being labeled as a distinct colors, mean that they are not on the scale between two other colors?

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by PunchyHamster »

makr17 wrote: post #75
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!

In the sitcom Mad About You there is an episode where Jamie tells Paul to put on a tie. Specifies the "navy blue one". "I don't own a navy tie." "Yes you do, it's the one that you think is dark green." My wife and I go round and round about what is and isn't blue and/or green.

But navy blue is just dark blue

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by carlosjobim »

watwut wrote: post #398
adrian_b wrote: post #355

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Someone has downvoted this, despite the fact that what I have written is not an opinion, but just facts. Because I have seen on HN extremely frequently downvotes that just show that the downvoters are ignorant about what they downvote. I stopped a long time ago to downvote comments. Now I either upvote when I agree and otherwise I write a comment explaining why I disagree. It would have been better if others had foll…

It is not an incorrect meaning, it is that meaning of the word in English is different. What it meant in ancient Greek or in 1805 is not relevant to what it means today. Words meanings shift over time in all languages. And when languages take sounds from other languages, they also regularly shift their meanings.

No, there's an original and correct meaning. Just because a majority might be wrong, doesn't make them right.

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by pharrington »

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…

This makes me realize that one of my formative childhood experiences was seeing the Crayola 64 crayon pack and thinking "huh, I guess there is NO limit."

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by cpburns2009 »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 think of purple as encompassing both indigo (blueish purple) and violet (pinkish purple).

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by driverdan »

positr0n wrote: post #256
driverdan wrote: post #205

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Not everything you listed is the same. > Is "pink" a different colour than (light) red? No, it's a different word for it. > Where does "white" end and "grey" begin? When any amount of black is added to white. > Where does "grey" end and "black" begin? When the color is 100% black. White and black are not the same as red, green, or blue. Tinting or shading a color with white or black does not change the color, it ligh…

>> Where does "grey" end and "black" begin? >When the color is 100% black. But what does this mean? Only vantablack is black, everything else is grey?

The test is done on a computer monitor. Vantablack is irrelevant. 100% black on a monitor means the pixels in the display are turned off.

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by cpburns2009 »

PunchyHamster wrote: post #412
makr17 wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the sitcom Mad About You there is an episode where Jamie tells Paul to put on a tie. Specifies the "navy blue one". "I don't own a navy tie." "Yes you do, it's the one that you think is dark green." My wife and I go round and round about what is and isn't blue and/or green.

But navy blue is just dark blue

Yeah that scene doesn't make any sense. A dark teal that could be confused between blue or green would look nothing like navy blue.

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by gora_mohanty »

NoMoreNicksLeft wrote: post #275
echelon wrote: post #238

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Philosophically speaking, does each of us experience "520 nm green" the same way? Is my "520 nm green" actually your "635 nm red"? And vice versa? Are all of our color embeddings different despite the same g-protein coupled biochemical activation?

>the same g-protein coupled b If my "g-protein" actually your "g-protein"? Is my visual cortex firmware your visual cortex firmware?

> If my "g-protein" actually your "g-protein"? Is my visual cortex firmware your visual cortex firmware?

That path leads down to solipsism which is not very intersting

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by B5C8ECB24DB47D1 »

harrall wrote: post #68

One of my eyes sees (very) slightly greener than the other one. But with both eyes I got > Your boundary is at hue 174, just like the population median. You're a true neutral. I should test with one eye.

Same here. 'My blue is not my blue', or yellow in my case. I realized this looking at the yellow doublet lines from Sodium vapor lamps: one of my eyes sees it greener than the other.
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