Color hue eye test…Super cool…

a reply to: RickyD

I think your eyes will be better!

a reply to: JJproductions

I once had a green car, that half of the people at work called blue.

Except it was blue ...

a reply to: KnowItAllKnowNothin

Haha, that is funny! I found your car lol!

In some cultures, there is no difference at all.

a reply to: schuyler2

Agreed, in some cultures nothing matters! It’s good to see you!

Your boundary is at hue 174, greener than 55% of the population. For you, turquoise is blue.

Wull........ yeah, that's what the color turquoise means

This was an interesting exercise, thank you!

a reply to: argentus

lol, yes that is what is means! I am happy that you enjoyed it too!

a reply to: JJproductions

I'm at 175. Bluer than 68% of the population. My turquoise is stated to be 'green' and I would generally agree with this.

If you would like to have an interesting discussion, let's talk about the "color" black. I've written about this here on ATS many times and have also been involved in some very scientific (and classified) studies about 'black' and some of its properties (and illusions). I don't have exact numbers, but I think I'd be safe in saying 98+% of the world do not comprehend what black is.

For example (just an easy one), do you see black on your monitor? How can it possibly be black if it takes light (energy) to project it to you on your monitor? What you perceive as black is an illusion. Black is not a color, but neither is red or blue. These colors are only the light reflected back off of something. The wavelengths of light which were not reflected back were absorbed or deflected. Color is an illusion of our mind. Black is the master of all of them because it is the complete absence of any color. So, if you see black, then what are you seeing? A 'reflection' of what?

The color black will absolutely bend your mind to the breaking point (when you really get into it)!

I'm not talking about super-black pigments like 'vanta-black' (which you may have heard of), but rather actual real black.

I've seen satellite pictures where the pixel densities are more than the human mind can comprehend. I know this sounds crazy (and we even had to sign medical disclaimers to even see it). Imagine a picture of a city, say NYC. You look at it and see the whole city. Now imagine zooming in on this same image...further and further. You pick a building, and then a window on the building, and then a single window sill on that window...and now down to the grain of the painted wood on the window sill...and then down to the grains of a bird poop on that same window sill. Then, they zoom all the way back out. I forget now how many pixels this one picture was but it was in the multi-gigapixel range. Your mind almost short circuits and you feel like your brain is just in maximum overload (and you feel like you're going to pass out, and I'm not kidding either!). Part of how they construct images like this is by removing extraneous color which fills in the blanks for your brain. The resolution is exponentially higher. Why? Because...black. (no false color, you see everything, and I mean EV-ER-Y THING!) And that's just a primer for some of the stuff I'm talking about!

Black is one of the most mysterious and misunderstood "colors" (it's not a 'color', it's more of a concept).

I was totally unprepared for some of the things we saw, not even close to anything I'd ever imagined possible (and I worked under NASA in the Shuttle program). We saw projection techniques which present images in UHD resolution on a 'screen' over a half a MILE wide. Absolutely incredible stuff! (the 'screen' was a series of grain silos in Nebraska).

Everything circled back to black, and how this 'concept' is so completely misunderstood. They weren't lying (and I can't even say who "they" were).

Last point...a movie screen is silver, right? The "Silver Screen". If you turn the lights on in a movie theater, the screen looks grey (silver). With a flashlight, on an angle, you will see reflective elements to the silver coating on the screen. Okay, now back to high school physics for a minute...no matter what happens, any "light" projected against a silver coated screen cannot return a reflection any dimmer than the light projected against it...right? So, how do you project the color black against a silver screen? It will always be lighter than the ambient light in the room...otherwise...you wouldn't see it!

Just think about some of these concepts for a minute. Seriously, they will bend your entire mind. Is black even real?

I'll stop here.

Here's just another thing these guys showed us. We were in a room which was painted green. They illustrated that in the absence of any light it was impossible to tell what color the room was (and they were correct, like a photographic 'darkroom'). Then they turned up the lights. We all agree the room was green (light green). Then they turned down the lights again and projected an image of black lettering on the wall. They then asked what color it was.

Looked black to me!

Well, it couldn't have been black. Why, because to project a black image on the green wall, the black color would have needed to be brighter than the reflection of light off the wall. Projecting a negative reflected color image is impossible. So, in order to see the black image the image would have needed to be lighter than the green wall it was projected against (else we wouldn't see it). I doubted this (as did some others), but they were ready for that. They then dimmed the lights down to where we could no longer see the green wall, but the letters remained. Hmmmm... Then we did the same experiment in reverse, by turning the lights up. This time we were monitoring the power output of the projector. As the ambient light increased, projecting the black lettering increased. What we were seeing was a complete illusion of "black". They increased the light levels in the space to like sunglasses level of brightness. Soon the green color of the walls washed out to complete white, but guess what....the black lettering still showed on the walls (meaning it was actually brighter than the staggeringly bright lights). How this could even be? I still struggle to wrap my head around it all. But they were right!

Black is an enigma most will never even come close to understanding. The lack of something is very difficult for the human brain to comprehend, and even as a physicist, some of this stuff still twists my brain around.

And here people just thought the color black was just some fancy car color. But what are you really seeing when you see a black car?????

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

Wow!!! Thank you so much for this post! I never knew the color black is so mysterious!

You have the most amazing mind! I love your posts! Thank you!

77%. I see Turquoise as blue.

Well that was a mind F for me. Obviously some of those examples have a combination of both colors and my mind kept going what would I need percentage wise to make that color. I’ve been a faux artist and finisher/painter for 45 years. So I’m always working with tints and colors as I tint and adjust my own stains and paint colors often. I’m constantly calling out Sherwin Williams and Benjamin Moore when they are matching a color for me, I’ve driven them crazy before, telling them what certain colors need added or canceled. Have even been offered a job to tint their paint/stains, lol. When I worked as a set painter for the film industry we got swatches but all of our paints were mixed by eye. So I’m constantly seeing undertones of any particular color and using secondary colors to dial in matches. But yeah that was brutal in a way because I could tell you how to get there but was a fine line on what I would call it.

I was at 174 1st time, 178 2nd and 180 the 3rd🤷‍♂️ Turq was green

a reply to: KrustyKrab

Wow, very interesting. You are a faux artist! You must really know your colors!

originally posted by: JJproductions
a reply to: KrustyKrab

Wow, very interesting. You are a faux artist! You must really know your colors!

Its trained my eye, yes 👍

originally posted by: FullHeathen
a reply to: JJproductions

My results:
"Your boundary is at hue 174, just like the population median. You're a true neutral."

So I'm normal (statistically at least).

Same here.
**sigh**
I guess I was hoping I wasn't normal.

a reply to: DontTreadOnMe

Haha!

a reply to: DontTreadOnMe

Never fear.
We are not determined by the photopic alone.
Scotopically speaking: some of us stumble in the dark.

a reply to: DontTreadOnMe

Never fear. Those of us who know you would scoff at your 'normalcy' claim. I mean, look, you're a MODERATOR here? Not normal. Not even close.

I thought this was a very interesting visual experiment. I like stuff like this that has measurable parameters.