Walter
05-08-2010, 06:55 PM
Thought this might be worth reading as to how we see and react to color.
Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.
—Herman Melville, Billy Budd
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The way we percieve color: (http://blag.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/)
& additionally;
- from http://www.omg-facts.com/view/Facts/3163 -
After making 1.4 billion crayons, Crayola's senior crayon maker dropped a bombshell: He's COLOR BLIND.
Emerson Moser retired from Crayola after serving as the senior crayon maker for 37 years. He then announced that he was colorblind the whole time.
This would make Moser one of the 8% of men around the world who have the same condition (like baldness, it's more common among males, and females serve as carriers of the genes).
What we call "color blindness" is not like watching a black and white television set. That kind of color blindness is very rare. More commonly, you'll find many people who have difficulty differentiating between two different colors, for instance, telling the difference between red and green.
Emerson Moser was in good company, too. Paul Newman, Mr Rogers, and Vincent van Gogh were all colorblind.
The following are crayons that were not part of Emerson Mosers 1.4 billion: Rejected Crayons (http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii139/master_chief_117/crayons_funny_names.jpg)
- The source for the above is interesting also -
What is Colorblindness (http://www.rps.psu.edu/probing/colorblindness.html)
The 'good company' names were interesting, and Van Gogh would seem to go without mentioning, but what blew me away Renoir possibly being colorblind.
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Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.
—Herman Melville, Billy Budd
...
The way we percieve color: (http://blag.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/)
& additionally;
- from http://www.omg-facts.com/view/Facts/3163 -
After making 1.4 billion crayons, Crayola's senior crayon maker dropped a bombshell: He's COLOR BLIND.
Emerson Moser retired from Crayola after serving as the senior crayon maker for 37 years. He then announced that he was colorblind the whole time.
This would make Moser one of the 8% of men around the world who have the same condition (like baldness, it's more common among males, and females serve as carriers of the genes).
What we call "color blindness" is not like watching a black and white television set. That kind of color blindness is very rare. More commonly, you'll find many people who have difficulty differentiating between two different colors, for instance, telling the difference between red and green.
Emerson Moser was in good company, too. Paul Newman, Mr Rogers, and Vincent van Gogh were all colorblind.
The following are crayons that were not part of Emerson Mosers 1.4 billion: Rejected Crayons (http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii139/master_chief_117/crayons_funny_names.jpg)
- The source for the above is interesting also -
What is Colorblindness (http://www.rps.psu.edu/probing/colorblindness.html)
The 'good company' names were interesting, and Van Gogh would seem to go without mentioning, but what blew me away Renoir possibly being colorblind.
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