Can you think of a new colour?

[.lava]

Except urple.

is there a color named "range"?

.

 

[Aquitaine]

So basically..... there are unlimited potential for "colours" in reality, however the Human brain can only process certain ones?

So say if we see blue - some other animals with different eyes sees..... urple - for example?

So it's basically a case of every light source we can percieve is "catagorized" into the visible light spectrum, and any colour outside of that spectrum is simply invisible to us?

 

[Erebus]

is there a color named "range"?

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Hey, slow down! We're not all art experts you know!

 

[Valjean]

So basically..... there are unlimited potential for "colours" in reality, however the Human brain can only process certain ones?

So say if we see blue - some other animals with different eyes sees..... urple - for example?

So it's basically a case of every light source we can percieve is "catagorized" into the visible light spectrum, and any colour outside of that spectrum is simply invisible to us?

Color is vibrational frequency, There's a very wide range of electromagnetic wavelengths, from micrometers to hundreds of kilometers. Our eyes detect a tiny sliver of these, and the brain proceses whatever impulses the optic nerve delivers to it.
The point is, some people have gaps in their frequency perception, and some can see slightly beyond what, till a few years ago, was considered the "normal visual spectrum."
Different people perceive different colored worlds. Vision is an individually variable sense.

 

[Aquitaine]

Color is vibrational frequency, There's a very wide range of electromagnetic wavelengths, from micrometers to hundreds of kilometers. Our eyes detect a tiny sliver of these, and the brain proceses whatever impulses the optic nerve delivers to it.

The point is, some people have gaps in their frequency perception, and some can see slightly beyond what, till a few years ago, was considered the "normal visual spectrum."
Different people perceive different colored worlds. Vision is an individually variable sense.

Awesome!

Imagine if you were one of those people, and some colours you were used to are totally non-existent in everyone else's visible spectrum.

 

[Valjean]

How would I even know, without seeing through someone else's eyes?

 

[Xafwak]

How would I even know, without seeing through someone else's eyes?

Scientific study with different wavelengths. But you wouldn´t realize to take part in one, though.

 

[Erebus]

How would I even know, without seeing through someone else's eyes?

Just swap one eye with them and compare your findings.

 

[Aquitaine]

How would I even know, without seeing through someone else's eyes?

I know, I'm just saying.....

 

[enchanted_one1975]

So basically..... there are unlimited potential for "colours" in reality, however the Human brain can only process certain ones?

So say if we see blue - some other animals with different eyes sees..... urple - for example?

So it's basically a case of every light source we can percieve is "catagorized" into the visible light spectrum, and any colour outside of that spectrum is simply invisible to us?

Not sure if you remember the Windows 3.1 days, but that OS was programmed for an unbelievably low number of colors. Looking at a photograph on it was pathetic. I am sure our programming is similar in comparison to what other beings may be able to see.

 

[bp789]

I remember reading somewhere that this guy had some type of meditation/near death experience, and during the experience he saw about 80-90 different colors that he never saw before on earth.