If this is another attempt to get me to stare into a laser, I'm going to say "Fool me once."
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The article is paywalled, but from the part I could read, it sounds like they're just making hyperbolic colors, which is a pretty well known phenomenon which you can experience at home: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_color#Chimerical_colors
They've done it using a new technique which is cool, but seeing super saturated hyperbolic colors is not a new thing.
It's bright super-saturated teal. So now we know teal is "true" green.
This sounds cool to me. I’d love to see it.
Better be named "Octarine"
I will never have an original thought in my life.
Anyway, I'm on book 18 or so, 3rd pass, still finding jokes and references I missed. Calling it now, Discworld is the best fiction I've read in 40+ years.
Sir Pratchett was a genius. He will continue to be missed.
Also worth reading the books he co-wrote with Stephen Baxter.
Also worth reading the books he co-wrote with Stephen Baxter.
The first book is ok, but the rest of the series is pretty meh. Still bought and read them all as a Pratchett fan, but I wouldn't recommend them to others. If you want to expand past the Discworld series, Good Omens is a much better recommendation. Also Nation is a really good book too.
Similarly, I think I’ve read somewhere that pink isn’t in the color spectrum. Or was it magenta?
A lot of colors, like those, as well as gold, aren't on the spectrum of visible light either.
Gold is – it's an orangeish yellow. I think what you're meaning is that when people say "gold", they usually are referring to the material properties of the metal as well. But the actual color does have a spectral hue. Magenta on the other hand, (including shades of pink that fall under magenta) is not a spectral color, and is just how our brain interprets the combination of signals from our red and blue cones.
Right. If you took a picture of a piece of gold and either sampled a point or blurred it together to one color, it wouldn't look like gold any more.
I'm not quite sure what you mean. If you took a picture of an orange and sampled a pixel from it, it wouldn't look like an orange (fruit) any more, but it would look orange (color). Likewise sampling a pixel from a picture of a piece of gold wouldn't look like gold (metal), but it would still be gold (color).
It would just be yellow
https://www.w3.org/wiki/CSS/Properties/color/keywords
Gold just looks like a dull yellow out of context.
I’ve always wondered why no one ever seems to mention that there’s no such thing as brown light.
It’s orange. Brown is just really dark orange.
It could be a very dark red or yellow as well
Pink is a shade of red, so pink itself is not a real color.