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Is our color perception influenced by our culture's language? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity_and_the_color_naming_debate https://en.wikiped

• improbable22 7y ago
  I don't know, but the words we use for it are certainly influenced by our culture! Here's a paper with nice graphs, drawing where different languages put the boundaries between words -- they divide up the hue-saturation space into a varying number of blobs: https://www.pnas.org/content/115/31/7937 https://www.pnas.org/content/115/31/7937 (The data isn't theirs, it was painstakingly colected by going and asking lots of people "what colour is this pantone?". The paper does some fancy stuff on top of that. But it has nice graphs.)