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cyberninja45 on 19 December 2012
pokoko said:
I suppose they would have to be explained using the other senses as a basis.

Brown would be a very nature-ish color, the color of wood and dirt and fallen leaves. The color of most animals and of earth.

Blue would be water, cool and soothing.

I think purple is the only color I can't really think of much to describe, unless it's the rich, luxurious feel of velvet.


Are you suggesting using texture and temperature. How accurate would that be?



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cyberninja45 on 19 December 2012
kain_kusanagi said:
I would listen to tons of classical music and use clips that I think FEEL like the each color.

For example blue might feel like Moonlight Sonata and Yellow might feel like Ode to Joy.

Would that not be very subjective



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cyberninja45 on 19 December 2012
Player2 said:

Blue: Electromagnetic radiation with a 450-495nm wavelength.

And how does that look?



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cyberninja45 on 19 December 2012
IIIIITHE1IIIII said:
Well, it's just as impossible as coming up with a new colour or trying to imagine how a world with an additional dimension would be like.

Why is it impossible to come up with a new colour, whats holding us back?



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kain_kusanagi on 19 December 2012
cyberninja45 said:
kain_kusanagi said:
I would listen to tons of classical music and use clips that I think FEEL like the each color.

For example blue might feel like Moonlight Sonata and Yellow might feel like Ode to Joy.

Would that not be very subjective


Yes, but what isn't?



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IIIIITHE1IIIII on 19 December 2012
cyberninja45 said:
IIIIITHE1IIIII said:
Well, it's just as impossible as coming up with a new colour or trying to imagine how a world with an additional dimension would be like.

Why is it impossible to come up with a new colour, whats holding us back?


Well, it's simply the way things are. All colours range from infrared to ultraviolet, and the combinations between all those colours.



miz1q2w3e on 19 December 2012
Player2 said:

Blue: Electromagnetic radiation with a 450-495nm wavelength.

I like this post.

My answer: Impossible.

I also agree with THE1, it's impossible to come up with a new color, bar maybe rewiring a person's brain to sense the extra wavelengths of light.



cyberninja45 on 19 December 2012
kain_kusanagi said:
cyberninja45 said:
kain_kusanagi said:
I would listen to tons of classical music and use clips that I think FEEL like the each color.

For example blue might feel like Moonlight Sonata and Yellow might feel like Ode to Joy.

Would that not be very subjective


Yes, but what isn't?

Facts are not subjective



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Player2 on 19 December 2012
cyberninja45 said:
Player2 said:

Blue: Electromagnetic radiation with a 450-495nm wavelength.

And how does that look?

Different colors have different wavelengths, and therefore have different diffraction angles. For example, using a non-monocromatic laser and a mirror to cause diffraction we can separate each wavelength (color) of the laser beam:

On the right figure, blue is on the left and green is on the right, no matter if you can't differentiate the colours, or see them different.

Instead of doing that, we can use different monocromatic lasers (one red, other blue, yellow, etc), each one will suffer diffraction at a different angle.

 

So we can help somebody to differentiate between colors, but we can't explain how blue "looks like" to someone who never have seen it.



Player2 on 19 December 2012
cyberninja45 said:
IIIIITHE1IIIII said:
Well, it's just as impossible as coming up with a new colour or trying to imagine how a world with an additional dimension would be like.

Why is it impossible to come up with a new colour, whats holding us back?

Our eyes, we cannot see radiation with wavelengths below 390nm or above 750 nm, so all we can see are mixes of what is between those wavelengths that like THE1 said. Some animals can see different wavelengths than us, but we have no idea how they look like for them.