When trying to select the background color for a design project I was working on, I looked at the color-selector-thinga-ma-jig but was unable to select a color that truly fit my project.
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| The Color-Selector-Thinga-Ma-Jig |
I thought, what if there are colors that I haven’t seen before? Colors that don’t exist in our world. Is it possible to imagine a new color that has no similarities to any previously known colors?
This may seem ridiculous, but if you think about the electromagnetic spectrum as a whole, only a small portion is known as ‘visible light’. If we could adjust our eyes in the future to expand our range of vision, what colors would appear?
I have developed an experiment to test to see if this is possible, but it is borderline unethical and inhumane. What if I were to trap a child in a room from birth without any exposure to the color green? When he or she becomes an appropriate age, would they be able to imagine that the color green exists? When yellow and blue pigments are mixed, they create a color vastly different from the originals, so there is no possibility that they could imagine its existence. If they were brought into the real world for the first time and exposed to the green grass, trees, etc., would they be excited, amazed, or scared?
Whether other colors exist or not, the most important thing is to be appreciate the colors we have, and be glad we were born after 1855, when color was invented.
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Two words: Mantis Shrimp. They have 16 types of photoreceptors as compared to our 3 and go across the ocean floor murdering other creatures. Badass, color-seeing, wizards-of-tyranny, I say.
Also, there is a woman who was born with a genetic mutation giving her a 4th photoreceptor type. R,G,B,Y. The blue we see is not the same blue she sees. kthxbai