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I think you'd have to think about things differently. Imagine the people with only 2 cones... Now imagine if everyone only had two cones "I can't imagine how ad
by earlz 11y ago
I think you'd have to think about things differently. Imagine the people with only 2 cones... Now imagine if everyone only had two cones "I can't imagine how adding an extra cone would allow you to see these different colors in trees and the sky, cause there aren't any colors between blue and yellow". Color is a weird topic anyway because it is impossible to determine that everyone actually sees the same thing (which could explain why people have different color preferences).
There are wavelengths that each cone responds to. I'm not sure that there has been any research into the matter, but I imagine that this fourth cone adds a response to a wavelength either below or above normal visible range, or maybe more likely a person with 4 cones actually has less less frequency response by the other 3 cones, and the 4th cone fills in the gap, allowing for not really more frequency response, but rather just more specific.. And then with the magic of the brain, who knows how that enhanced response ends up being interpreted
And finally, when she paints to recreate what she sees, I imagine that paint is much more lively to her than what we are actually seeing.. which is a weird paradoxical thought experiment in itself
- amluto 11y agoThe standard idea is that the fourth type of cone is the anomalous type inherited from one's father. In the most common cases (deuteranomaly), it fills in between red and green. In any event, while color perception is certainly subjective, both the underlying spectrum and the eye's physiological response are very much measurable. An interesting experiment would be to see whether she could construct two paints that she can tell apart but that look identical to everyone else.