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> Color is light For an ELI5 on a "maybe teach color better by emphasizing spectra?" side project, I went for hard disjointness on "color" vs "light". Distingu
by mncharity 2y ago
> Color is light
For an ELI5 on a "maybe teach color better by emphasizing spectra?" side project, I went for hard disjointness on "color" vs "light". Distinguishing world-physics-light from wetware-perception-color. Writing not "red light", but "\"red\" light". So physical spectra were grayscale, on nm and energy. Paired with perceptual spectra in color, on hue angle and luminosity. And both could be wrapped around a 3D perceptual color space (tweening the physical spectra from nm to hue). Or along a 2D non-primate mammalian dichromat space, to emphasize the wetware dependence. Misconceptions around color are so very pervasive, K-graduate, that extreme care for clarity seems helpful.