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our eyes invent colors that aren’t even there “physically” in tbe true sense of the word. and colours are even cultural, so there is a lot of leeway with what a
by kanbara 2y ago
our eyes invent colors that aren’t even there “physically” in tbe true sense of the word. and colours are even cultural, so there is a lot of leeway with what a colour even is. even in genders there are differences in cultural colour perception.
non-spectral colours are very real: greyscale, pink, brown, and purple which are mixes of multiple wavelengths of light
then you have things like:
* green is blue (japan/china)
* homer’s wine dark sea
* colour word development which has some near-universal linguistic phenomenon where the start is light and dark words, then red, and there’s a list on and on.
- gsich 2y ago>homer’s wine dark sea easily imaginable for the sea at sunset.
- dumpsterdiver 2y agoIt’s also pretty evocative language, which is probably why he’s the guy who wrote it. It’s something you can see in your mind, and when you see it you get a sense of its gravity.