The ‘Profound’ Experience of Seeing a New Color
The ‘Profound’ Experience of Seeing a New Color
Bruh, a new color dropped before GTA 6??
Wow quite a super interesting read.
The doors of perception can be opened to many different avenues.
I wonder if it's quite like anti-red
Stare at the center of a bright red circle for like 30 seconds,
Then look away at a white surface.
It looks like what those people in the article describe, especially in the "holy shit I've never seen that before" feeling.
There's a Lovecraft story about this exact thing. It doesn't end well.
So Octarine, basically.
Intertesting research, but it is not a colour. It is a human's visual sensation created by giving the brain unusual inputs. If you take the same light and measure it spectrum, it is not new.
Ok but it's a new experience that no one has had before. The only reason why the set of electromagnetic wavelengths is special is because it's part of the human experience. So seeing something outside of that normal perception is arguably seeing a new color.
Color is mostly a biological sensation. In low light, humans lose color acuity because rods are activated more than cones. Objects reflect the same wavelengths, but our cones can’t activate due to low energy. Does this mean color fades in low light? It depends on the physiology of the perceiver.
Humans have three color receptors peak-sensitive to red, green, and blue. Dogs have only two: yellow and blue. This means they can’t distinguish certain wavelengths. To dogs and colorblind humans, red and green look the same because their receptors are activated similarly. Color isn’t just a property of light; it’s a biological perceptual experience.
Did you know we only experience pink as our red and blue cell receptors being stimulated at the same time? There is no pink wavelength.
Captain Obvious would like to chime in: (sorry 😅)
Every color that we see is created by different types of receptors being stimulated together. A linear combination of three of these types. Arguably there isn't really a wavelength that only stimulates one type of receptor exclusively as their absorbtion areas overlap - so it isn't even that precise to call one receptor the "green" receptor as it sees a continuum of wavelength (of which a lot are also detected by the (so-called) "red" receptor.
It's a little egg-and-hen-problem with the naming here.a way out of it would be to only speak about spectra if it's in the physical realm and color of its in the percetral realm.
Objects don't "have" colors either, if we're being pedantic. They reflect/absorb/transmit/emit different combinations of wavelengths. So "pink" objects just reflect some wavelengths that we classify as in the range of "red" and "blue". Color is an interaction between emission, detection, and the brain's interpretation.
Its not even a unique trick. The ears combine various wavelengths of air vibrations to create sound, with combinations of pure waves merging into distinct timbres (sometimes called "tonal color").
You say that, but Magenta is similar. It's a unique reaction in our perception to two different wavelengths of light combining. Magenta is not in the rainbow.
I'm so jealous.