Trying to think of a new colour after turning off my mental safeguards felt like I was a computer dividing by zero. Honestly, would not recommend.
Infinity does not require to be all encompassing.
The set of natural numbers is infinite, yet it contains no negative numbers.
The set of whole numbers is infinite, yet it contains no fractional numbers, except arbitrary fractions like four halves.
The set of fractional numbers is infinite, yet it does not contain most real numbers…So? It says human imagination is indefinite.
I had the hood of a car come down on the back of my head when I was taking out an alternator.
I saw all kinds of new colors!
You could have done something more productive, like coming up with the Flux capacitor…
octarine
new
But yah, my favourite one as well
Octraine it is a kind of greenish-yellow-purple
Terry Pratchett strikes again…
This one’s for me! I saw a new color the second time I broke through on DMT! I can still see it in my imagination. I’ve broken through since and haven’t seen it again.
Epic Its like a purple, blue, pink, but more vibrant with sparkles. Similar to what is used for epic level items in games, hence the name.
For this to be a color, it needs to be even at all points, so no sparkles!
No, no, they have a point - if they can imagine something that’s perfectly uniform and sparkly, then that’d actually be something novel
Fair enough!
Also a cool thing about imaginination, is you don’t have to stick to or define all the parameters to imagine it. You can go like, I’m imagining in this imaginary senario I’ve figured that part out, and just run with it.
True, but when we say we can’t imagine something, we don’t mean a mental construct that we don’t think through, we mean something tangible. In case of color, it means actually visualizing it mentally, not imagining there could be something.
That sounds self imposed.
Nah, just two different meanings of “imagine”.
One is to imagine a color
And the other to imagine there is a color.
Blurple
You mean indigo?
No, nothing like indigo. Imagine if you mixed twango and dopper together.
Well twango and dopper are different. Indigo is kinda like magenta, and could be described as a blurple. But dopper is more like gwave, which can be described as an experience
Red but a bit greener
We would have also accepted a bluer yellow.
I know I heard about a group in Africa (IIRC) where they have a lot more words for greens, but they don’t have a word for blue, or something like that. When given a test to identify the odd color out, when it’s a very slight tint change of green they identify it quickly, but most westerners take a lot longer. When all of them are green, but then there’s a blue one, they take a long time, but westerners see it instantly.
It’s why IQ tests are fundamentally flawed. Just our launguage can shape our recognition of the world. Imagine how much the rest of our culture, education, and surroundings influence us. None of these make us better or smarter than anyone else, yet they’ll all make us better or worse at different things. They’re all valuable, and it’s part of why diversity, equity, and inclusion are so important. These different points of view can bring so much value to us
The same is true for English too.
Brown and orange are different brightness levels of the same colour. Brown is dark orange and orange is light brown. Yet people experience brown and orange as separate colours, because we have separate words for it, while we experience light blue and dark blue as different brightness levels of the same colour, because both are called “blue”.
It’s why IQ tests are fundamentally flawed.
Since you have failed to correctly define the words “highfalutin”, “dogsbody”, “apiary”, “valise”, “collet”, “haruspex”, “threnody”, or even “copse”, we regret to inform you that you are functionally illiterate and likely mentally disabled.
highfalutin
Person that farts a lot
dogsbody
Body of dog
apiary
BEES
valise
That stuff that reduces friction
collet
Piece of meat
haruspex
Protagonist no. 2 of Pathologic, and protagonist of Pathologic 2
threnody
Made up word
copse
Corpse without r
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I didn’t know Patologic took place in the world of Harry Potter.
But we did recently invent a new color, or at least a new way to perceive color.
Indefinite?
indefinite /ĭn-dĕf′ə-nĭt/ adjective
- Not definite, especially.
- Unclear; vague.
- Lacking precise limits. “an indefinite leave of absence.”
I have a vague notion of a new color. Success!
I’m thinking take an artist with exquisite color sense, and dose them (consentually) with mushrooms/ acid; that should do the trick.
greg2
The visual spectrum is finite. So it’s an impossible task.
There’s actually impossible colors that can be seen by playing with the visual spectrum of the color sensitive molecules. You can also play with visual processing to further see impossible colors
I’m not saying there’s infinite combinations, but there’s ones you’ve never seen and no one has a word for
Brown is not in the color spectrum, doesn’t have a wavelength, yet we can imagine it and see it.
Space is a finite number (three) of dimensions, yet we can imagine space with higher number of dimensions.
Yup technically orange
Brown is on the colour spectrum, it does have a wavelength. Specifically, it has the same wavelength as orange. Because brown is dark orange and orange is light brown.
What’s not on the colour spectrum are multi-wavelength mixed colours like e.g. red and blue light combining to something that looks like spectral violet. And while these multi-wavelength colours are physically different than a pure spectral colour, the sensation to a human is identical, because both trigger the cone cells in the eyes in an identical way. Which is why we can have screens that only emit three colours and still trigger the same sensations as millions of different spectral colours.
Really ? Cool, I didn’t know.
I can’t find the wavelength online, can you tell me what wavelength brown is exactly ? By that I mean any specific length that if a light source only emits that wavelength would be brown.
Gergle Merf.
I searched for “moof” but I don’t know what color that is.
