Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Seeing Impossible Colors

[personal profile] redsixwing has a thoughtful post about "impossible colors" and how they are not actually impossible but just places where our tools -- whether linguistic or mechanical -- break down.
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fayanora

fayanora

August 19 2015, 01:04:21 UTC 5 years ago

Technically, all color is an illusion created by shared brain software and hardware. Which explains how it's possible to correct color blindness: fix or compensate for the hardware, and the software does the rest.

If there were a way to make the average person see these "impossible colors" the same way, they would be perceived.
fayanora

fayanora

August 19 2015, 01:05:25 UTC 5 years ago

But yes, some people's hardware differs and they can see things others can't.

Then too, I think in some of these cases there might be slight software differences.