> [myself]
> >>>People who have actually experienced the binary hue
> >>>that results from combining the blue and yellow percepts
> >>>have described the experience as seeing a colour they
> >>>had never seen before, and of course they had seen green
> >>>before.
> >>
> [Doug Dee]
> >>Nifty. How do I go about having the experience of combining
> >>the blue & yellow percepts? I'd like to see a new color.
> >
> [myself]
> [...]
> >As I suppose you cannot reproduce that experiment for
> >yourself (at least I cannot), I think you may still try
> >to get an approximation of what yellowblue might possibly
> >look like if you observe surfaces where blue and yellow
> >interact very closely but distinctly (that is, without
> >the whole thing becoming greenish), for example with some
> >tinted glasses and in the half-done mixes of paints you
> >can find if you look closely at some painting styles.
>
> Just found this very interesting thing on the web regarding the
> above. Have a look at the background of the following webpage:
>
>
http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/indologie/tamil/mwd_search.html
>
> Most surprisingly, it does look (at least to my eyes and on my
> screen) like a smooth transition from blue to yellow _without_
> an obvious green or grey in between. To see it more clearly,
> you can try saving the background image and opening it in your
> computer; it is a thin stripe in whose middle you will find
> the closest approximation to yellowblue I've ever seen on
> a computer screen.
Um, on my screen, it starts as turquoise blue and goes to white via very pale
green. There's not a trace of yellow.
Andreas