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"A rendering of the visible spectrum on a grey background" image from Wikipedia with added English and Russian colour range names: http://i.imgur.com/XnmMRQ6.p
by anonymfus 12y ago
"A rendering of the visible spectrum on a grey background" image from Wikipedia with added English and Russian colour range names:
http://i.imgur.com/XnmMRQ6.png http://i.imgur.com/XnmMRQ6.png
Original:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rendered_Spectrum.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rendered_Spectrum.png
- codingdave 12y agoThis is interesting, but I don't feel it is significant. Names of colors, at least in English, do not typically imply a complete range of color, but major points on the spectrum. We have hundreds of words for different shades of colors, and pseudo-words like, "Yellowish-green". Painters will know the different between Cerulean blue and Cobalt blue, and Wikipedia has a whole category of shades of blue, with varying English names. If we need to limit ourselves to a 1st grade vocabulary to make a point about our language, it isn't a very strong point.
- ehurrell 12y agoI think it might be significant, or at least hint at a significance worth exploring. Taxi drivers' brains apparently adapt and grow a much better awareness of maps and routes than the regular person, and this might be the same thing happening with painters and their more precise sensitivity to colour. It's worth study anyway.
- guard-of-terra 12y agoWhy did they use such low-saturation colours? I would never call any those colors how they are marked - except maybe for green.