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fossilesque @mander.xyz

3d ago

Colours

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- Get you and your alternative expression of human development, prosperity, and productivity out of here. This is a science channel!!
  
  Just for that I'm going to team up with the historians and say you fell off a horse selling bad copper.

How else would you cosplay as neopolitan ice cream?

What about hyperbolic orange? Stygian blue? Self-luminous red?
- Put the colors away, man, they're callin' the cops

This is octarine erasure.

Look, if you don't include florescent black, why even bother?

Colors are a social construct
- Colors are a retinal construct
  
  Both. There is a perception that's 100% biological for sure. But lumping all the blue tones together, that's social. Some languages (including Russian and Greek) have different words for light and dark blue, other languages have one word blue and green (sometimes translated as "grue"). Sure they can see the difference and name it (leave grue vs ocean grue for example) but socially, they perceive it as the same "color category".

Black and white I geht. But Brown an magenta?
- They are combination of colors rather than a specific wavelength. (Similar to white, which is combination of all of them)
  Any of the colors can theoretically be created using a combination of multiple colors (see RGB)
  
  Brown is actually dark orange. It just became its own thing when we gave it a distinct name. So people who know more color names really can see more colors.
  
  This is wrong
  The "combination" is just a lower value, here orange-red.
  Colors we can see are a combination of value, chroma (called saturation when it's in a computer) and hue.
  I can explain more if someone is interested.
- Do you see them in the rainbow? That's because they're lies!

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