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Re: Yellowblue (was Re: Quest for colours: what's basic then?)

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Saturday, May 1, 2004, 11:01
Quoting Javier BF <uaxuctum@...>:

> [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