Re: color perception and related vocabulary
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 9, 1999, 4:39 |
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On Thu, 7 Jan 1999 19:12:26 -0700, Adam Parrish <myth@...> wrote:
> Hey, all. We've been studying vision in our psychology class =
and
>I was just wondering, what with the recent discussion of =
conlang-speakers
>that are not necessarily human, if anyone had devised a culture whose
>perception of color varied from the norm.
Mizarians have more limited color vision than humans. They can =
distinguish
green and blue, but not red. Purple appears blue, and yellow would be
classified as green or white.
Zireen and related species have four color receptors that are sensitive =
to
yellow, turquoise, indigo, and ultraviolet. They can't see red at all; it
appears black, but they can distinguish between colors that appear
identical to human eyes.