"Look at the colors, man!"
Posted on 01/30/2022 6:51:34 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
“It’s not just an affectation and it’s not artistic licence,” says Antico. “I’m actually painting exactly what I see. If it’s a pink flower and then all of a sudden you see a bit of lilac or blue, I actually saw that.”
Antico is a tetrachromat, which means she has a fourth colour receptor in her retina compared with the standard three which most people have. While those of us with three of these receptors – called cone cells – have the ability to distinguish around one million different colours, tetrachromats see an estimated 100 million.
According to Dr Kimberly Jameson, a University of California scientist who has studied Antico, just having the gene – which around 15% of women have – is not alone sufficient to be a tetrachromat, but it’s a necessary condition. “In Concetta’s case … one thing we believe is that because she’s been painting sort of continuously since the age of seven years old, she has really enlisted this extra potential and used it. This is how genetics works: it gives you the potential to do things and if the environment demands that you do that thing, then the genes kick in.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Can she see the colors of the wind?
One popular named color that does not exist in nature is Magenta. This color is placed between blue and red “via the back yard”, and does not have its own wavelength like green does, and does not appear in the visible color spectrum. Green is also between blue and red, has a wavelength and does exist in nature.
Almost as many colors as genders.
Really? How was that measured?
Hardly anyone would see the extra colors she paints? 🤪
Thanks for the Blood Sweat & Tears earworm there. :P
At least it’s a good and memorable one that was truly avant-garde when they recorded it. Those guys had amazing creativity on that first album.
I’m not scared of dying,...
Birds are tetrachromats. They see UV light.
Tetrachromatism. I learned a new term today.
The way this woman describes her color reception, makes me wonder if tetrachromatism can be a temporary condition to the average person. A temporary condition induced by certain drugs, such as LSD. I have heard certain people describe the intricate details of a color while under the affects of a halucinogen. After the drug wears off (including any flashbacks) so to will that ability to ‘see’ all those unnamed colors visible for a short while.
Which my first ex may have had.
Nothing was ever the right color or matched, even what she picked out.
Through with current analysis, she just may have been a Karen.
“She comes in colors everywhere. She’s a rainbow!”
I have heard of this, I think it is really cool.
I cannot see the difference between a 720p vs a 4k tv at a few feet away.
I have watched 0 hours of tv so far this year.
I am not sure how many I watched last year, but I remember testing a LaserDisk player so it was at least a few hours,
then some girl made me watch some guy torture people in his cutthroat kitchens cause he liked it.
Maybe with all the 5g coming online I will re watch Diehard or something.
Or Blake’s 7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8n6D78ePU0
"Look at the colors, man!"
What say ye?
https://www.andreeadumez.com/the-fascination-with-blue-colors-and-why-people-love-blue/
I’ve always wondered why so many of our fellow Earth dwelling humans would go for blue as a favorite color, but I have a theory. At least I used to, until I read another article, but I’ll come back to that article shortly.
Here’s my theory:
My hypothesis starts from that big thing above us, called sky. It is, by far, the most prevalent natural occurrence anywhere you would turn your head around. Unless you live underground like a mole and never popped your head above the surface, the sky will always be half of the big panoramic view in which you navigate every day (the other half is the earth beneath your feet, with all its happenings).
So, if the sky is blue (well, most of the time, depending on the weather), and you catch a glimpse of it above your head on a daily basis, that’s a damn good reason to like blue. (Familiarity leads to preference). And I’m not just talking about nowadays. This blue sky has been going on for… as long as Earth has been around, like, um, 4.5 billion years I guess. So I’m assuming humanity has learned to associate the sky with blue and freedom and supernatural and transcendent since ancient times.
Can you see blue if you don’t have a word for it, though?
Yeah, like I said, I’m assuming we associate blue with sky and freedom and I’m assuming that’s what people have been doing for millennia. But here comes a story that will turn my theory and your expectations upside down. This really cool Radiolab episode talks about several studies on how ancient people saw the colors around them.
Long story short, ancient languages did not have a word for “blue”. Not Greek (Homer describes the “wine-dark sea” in Odyssey), not Chinese, not Hindu (Vedic hymns talk incessantly about the skies, but no mention of blue…), not Hebrew, not Japanese, and so on. Everywhere you would look, the ancient texts described purple, red, black… but not blue. Except… the Egyptians, because they actually had developed a method for producing a blue pigment, through some really cool chemical reactions involving the most ubiquitous material they could get: the sand (more on this in my next post about blue). So the Egyptians did have a word for blue.
The verdict is still out there.
Yet…, if there was no word for blue in most languages, how could people know it was blue? There’s a lot of controversy around this story, including some unverified studies of a tribe in Africa that allegedly has a hard time seeing blue because they don’t have a word for it.
Of course, the fact that there was no word for blue in ancient languages doesn’t mean that people couldn’t actually perceive blue. Right? At least according to this post, the linguistic relativism is irrelevant. Ancient people might have seen the blue color, but still did not have a word for it.
In any case, my theory that people like blue so much because they’ve been naming the big thing above them as “blue” sky for millennia… still remains open for debate.
Yeah, I saw all the colors in that video. I don’t see colors the same as a lot of my family, I will see yellow but they see green. Sometimes flowers with sunlight coming through them look almost like they’re in a black-light to me.
She counted them.
It took her all night.
Don't you believe her and the scientists?
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