Impossible Colors

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

I love these things...

But what are impossible colors?



They are colors that are overvsaturated or otherwise normally outside our visual range.  Like the colors mantis shrimp see..

But we can trick ourselves by torturing our light cones. Afterimage provides a way to focus your RGB cones on a specific color and let you, for seconds, see outside the visible light spectrum when the image changes.. 

The colors in this video are, "stygian blue," "self-luminous red," and "hyperbolic orange."




And as a bonus here is a video about the color "Olo".

To see olo you need lasers manipulating your cones, but you can use the same trick to sorta see it.  

color part starts at 10:04




Of all I like stygian blue best. It has an indigo blacklight quality. Self luminous red is like a white-neon magenta. Hyperbolic Orange is boring. Just really bright orange. 

Olo is amazing. Its a glowing vibrant teal.

[rickymouse]

How do I know what I am missing if I am missing something?  They all have colors that sort of match the discription, except that one strange supposed red that looks sort of like a light color with a pinkish fleshlike hue.

Most people see colors differently, but we are told the name of that color, so we say the name when we see that color...receptors vary from one person to another..but we adopt the name of it as it's color we communicate with...except for some people with color blindness who cannot tell the difference.

Another person cannot see what I see, so we created words to express what we see and have made a definition so we communicate to others.  My daughter, Me, and my granddaughter used to say my wife's aunts car we bought was bluish green, but my wife insists it was just green.  The color listed on the door oaint code was bluish green, but we always called it a green car because my wife insisted it was just plain green.  We avoided talking about it because she would insist it was green and wouldn't budge off that...she likes blue and if it is not all blue she does not like it.

That is life, living with my wife.  At least it is just about colors that we argue about....she wonders why I hate painting and complains when the paint looks different than the paint chip she chose at the store when picking out the color....had to repaint rooms half a dozen times since we were married because she wanted to change it when I finished.

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

Welcome to the mindfuck of relative distinctions and qualia. 

The trippiest thing about that outwardly solipsistic idea, it that, even with the same RGB cones in our trichromatic eyes, we can perceive the same blue completely differently. One towards purple, one towards green, and still agree that my blue that looks like purple and your blue that looks like green is still blue.

Subjective experience doesn't prevent all non-colorblind people from telling sky blue from indigo.

A person with a red-blue inversion (inverted qualia) can still identify blue because color labeling is a learned association. Although their subjective experience of "blue" might look like what others call "red," they have learned to call the color of the sky and ocean "blue" since childhood.

[ReturnofBroccoli]

How do I know what I am missing if I am missing something?  They all have colors that sort of match the discription, except that one strange supposed red that looks sort of like a light color with a pinkish fleshlike hue.

Most people see colors differently, but we are told the name of that color, so we say the name when we see that color...receptors vary from one person to another..but we adopt the name of it as it's color we communicate with...except for some people with color blindness who cannot tell the difference.

Another person cannot see what I see, so we created words to express what we see and have made a definition so we communicate to others.  My daughter, Me, and my granddaughter used to say my wife's aunts car we bought was bluish green, but my wife insists it was just green.  The color listed on the door oaint code was bluish green, but we always called it a green car because my wife insisted it was just plain green.  We avoided talking about it because she would insist it was green and wouldn't budge off that...she likes blue and if it is not all blue she does not like it.

That is life, living with my wife.  At least it is just about colors that we argue about....she wonders why I hate painting and complains when the paint looks different than the paint chip she chose at the store when picking out the color....had to repaint rooms half a dozen times since we were married because she wanted to change it when I finished.

You are definitely not alone in this struggle my wife says her car is brown but I see silver and she somehow sees different shades of the same color in the bundle of towels she bought off Amazon that all came in the same package. Her mother does too. Granted though, my eyes are really really bad without my glasses, but when I wear them, colors are more vibrant than I could have ever imagined and I forget that when I dont wear them

[Kurokage]

I love these things...

But what are impossible colors?

[Image: https://denyignorance.com/uploader/image...5fbfc8.jpg]

They are colors that are overvsaturated or otherwise normally outside our visual range.  Like the colors mantis shrimp see..

But we can trick ourselves by torturing our light cones. Afterimage provides a way to focus your RGB cones on a specific color and let you, for seconds, see outside the visible light spectrum when the image changes.. 

The colors in this video are, "stygian blue," "self-luminous red," and "hyperbolic orange."

[Video: https://youtu.be/uHexBGAqNpo?si=AchMLLS1T9HT26VI]

And as a bonus here is a video about the color "Olo".

To see olo you need lasers manipulating your cones, but you can use the same trick to sorta see it.  

color part starts at 10:04

[Video: https://youtu.be/Q6jyq_RY8i8?si=xnWT5ZwjchpOd4aB]

Of all I like stygian blue best. It has an indigo blacklight quality. Self luminous red is like a white-neon magenta. Hyperbolic Orange is boring. Just really bright orange. 

Olo is amazing. Its a glowing vibrant teal.

A great read, thank you!

How we perceive colour differently to each other is a fascinating subject.

[andy06shake]

Great thread, IdeomotorPrisoner.

I could see the stygian blue just fine.

The red looked pink to me, same with the orange...

[Kurokage]

A colour I've also found interesting is Vanta black, when seen it looks like it's straight out of an animation or cartoon that managed to appear in the real world.

[andy06shake]

A colour I've also found interesting is Vanta black, when seen it looks like it's straight out of an animation or cartoon that managed to appear in the real world.

[Video: https://youtu.be/AJ0cB3uGSvc?si=-2eNnnHagDQsi4rg]

Yeah, that stuff is rather trippy.

Black isn’t even a real colour either.

Because it's the absence of visible light.

Same with white, which is a mix of all visible wavelengths of light combined.

The way our brains interpret light is rather fascinating to say the least...

[Kurokage]

Yeah, that stuff is rather trippy.

Black isn’t even a real colour either.

Because it's the absence of visible light.

Same with white, which is a mix of all visible wavelengths of light combined.

The way our brains interpret light is rather fascinating to say the least...

In a bygone age before everything digital, I went to Uni and studied art, book binding and printing before real life kicked in.   I've always found it fascinating how our eyes are stimulated by light waves and our brains interpret what we 'see'
We fill in so many gaps in how we see and remember things.

Here's a great example of how are brain 'thinks' we see something...

https://www.illusionsindex.org/i/adelson...w-illusion

[andy06shake]

In a bygone age before everything digital, I went to Uni and studied art, book binding and printing before real life kicked in.   I've always found it fascinating how our eyes are stimulated by light waves and our brains interpret what we 'see'
We fill in so many gaps in how we see and remember things.

Here's a great example of how are brain 'thinks' we see something...

https://www.illusionsindex.org/i/adelson...w-illusion

I did a book-binding and printing module also, during an HNC at Glasgow College of Building and Printing many moons ago.

Snap. 

And good link.