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From the top comment: "What is mind blowing is the idea that the brain is able to generate whole new colours if necessary. If we evolved (or engineered) a fourth cone cell (tetrachromacy) the brain would (presumably) invent eight entirely new colours to cope with the possible signals."
I need to rest and meditate on what I have learned.
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...I think I just lost a few points off my IQ from reading that. You could consider black to be "anti white" but you wouldn't stop calling black a color.
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Well, those depend on what you're looking at. If it's pigments then white is the lack of color and black is the presence of all colors simultaneously. If you're looking at light then white is the presence of all colors simultaneously and black is the lack of color.
But either way, you still call black and white colors (unless you're the same kind of person who insists that 0 isn't a number since it's just the lack of numbers).
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Then with limits (functions), when it tends to 0 you just don't calculate the limit? Because you cannot tend a limit to a non-number thing. If you don't consider 0 a number, the same you cant tend a limit to an apple or a cow it can't to a "non-number" thing.
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White is all colours mixed together, Black is the lack of colour.
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here. read this. thanks for the thread.. http://www.biotele.com/magenta.html
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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/color
so stfu its a color =D
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People have already answered it but I'll say it again with my own words.
There are basically two types of colour; ones that correspond with a certain wavelength of light and others which are a mixture of different wavelengths which are interpreted by the brain as a colour, some of which don't resemble any wavelength of light.
Also I'll just respond to this quote real quick: "What is mind blowing is the idea that the brain is able to generate whole new colours if necessary. If we evolved (or engineered) a fourth cone cell (tetrachromacy) the brain would (presumably) invent eight entirely new colours to cope with the possible signals."
Actually some animals do have 4 types of cone cell, I believe it's mostly birds and insects though. However the cone cells in humans can have slight variations between people (meaning people may actually see slightly different colours, discounting colour blindness of course), anyhow one of these gene sequences lies on the X Chromosome, which means if it is defective in males there is no backup copy, hence why males are more likely to be colour blind. However there is some minor evidence that women with two different variations of the gene may have 4 types of cone cell, of course however two of the types would be almost alike and produced little in the way of new colour sensation but they still would.
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I want a fourth cone cell now...Great now I feel like I am missing out.
:-(
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These little guys have 12. You will always be outclassed by something.
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Oh wow, I wasn't aware anything had more than 4 types of cone cells, I should've probably expected it though and at least looked it up.
However while it says it has 12 for colour sensitivity, it says it has 16 types overall. Now the other type of cell is a rod but they are basically just used for light sensitivity and not colour sensitivity and wouldn't have multiple times. That would still leave 3 types unaccounted for, and the article says it has "others for colour filtering" which, while I'm no expert on this, isn't the job of either cones or rods.
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Didn't you post this in the Steam forums too?
It's a non-spectral colour (it doesn't appear in the rainbow, it can only be made by combining colours), but it's still a colour. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_colour
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The fruit came first. Nobody had ever named that colour until after someone saw that fruit for the first time.
We almost had the word "banana" instead of "yellow", but a week before the fruit was discovered a small child was running along shouting "YAAAAAH!" when he slipped and sprained his ankle, so he actually shouted "YAAAAArlOWW!". He fell into a clump of sunflowers, and some rather stupid adults mistook his shout for an idea of what to call that colour. Then the fruit was discovered, and it was only by the narrowest of margins that it avoided being named a "yellow" as well, but that's another story!
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Though you could say that the color existed since the beginning of light, even though it was unnamed.
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Red yellow and blue aren't the primary colours of anything. No, not even paint. No, your school teachers were wrong.
Try getting red yellow and blue paints and mixing them to make orange, green and purple. My guess is you'll be able to make a very nice orange, a pretty decent green, but the purple will look like rubbish. Depending on the shade of the so-called primary coloured paints. If they were true primary colours, you'd be able to make bright and vibrant secondary colours with only three paints. But this is not possible (which is why some paint manufacturers sell Cool Red, Warm Red, Cool Yellow, Warm Yellow, Cool Blue, Warm Blue - You'd mix your Cool Red with your Cool Blue to make a nice purple, Warm Red with Warm Yellow to make a nice orange etc).
Edit: I suppose I should back that up somewhat. Here's some wikipedia I also recommend this book
editedit: stupid URL formatting
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Its because he thinks he knows everything, which annoys me.
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