Do you see blue or green?

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This is very interesting around color perception. It made me think of blue skies in photos and how we edit our images.

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I ended up at hue 174, apparently true neutral :sweat_smile:

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I had 176 but each time I did it one after the other I kept getting higherā€¦ Might be nice to repeat it at home on my calibrated monitor in dimmer conditions than my office to see if I will have different resultā€¦ :slight_smile:

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This reminds me of the tennis ball question. About half of people say they are yellow, while the other half say they are green.

On the test, I also get 174, True Neutral.

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i am at 173, almost the median. But I am curious what the units actually are, and how they could be mapped to color wavelength.

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I guess Iā€™m the outlier then, with 168.

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Iā€™ve got 174, neutral

The unit seems to be the Hue value in HSL representation

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The article explains itā€¦

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I think the main point of the exercise is not what number you get, but that we all have a slight different perception of colors.

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I can beat that with 167 :smiley:

I guess it heavily depends on the display you are onā€¦
Interesstinhly, I had the redshift on my phone on and got higher values with that (170) - I got that low value when I switched it off!

I heard a story that some nation do not even have a word for ā€œblueā€ in their language and the sky is ā€œgreenā€ for them.

Edit: okay wow - I took my wifeā€™s phone and got 174. She scored 169 on mine and got on hers 180. I guess I have to try that on my calibrated monitor :smile:

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175

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176-177 on two screens, my laptop (very good color rendering) and my side display (not that good).

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I was either biased or started guessing as my number kept going up if I did one test after the other :slight_smile:

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Me too!

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176 on my ā€œcalibratedā€ monitor vs 175 on ipad with cracked screen. I feel like Iā€™m making comparisons with the previous colour, as in, well itā€™s bluer than that last one

tried again and got 177 and 174ā€¦

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176 as well.

Unfortunately the article still perpetuates the idea that Homer called the sea ā€œwine-darkā€ merely because he didnā€™t have a word for it and not due to poetic, figure of speech, or actual objective reasons. The sea is not always blue(our general modern understanding of blue), depending on a great number of factors(time of day, distance to shore or water depth etc), but that still seems hard for people to understand :smiley:

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ā€œFor you, turquoise is green.ā€

Actually, I always called it a shade of blue. But my first thought was hedge your bets and say turquoise. People have been arguing about is it blue or green since for ever.

I hurried through the test, often thinking ā€œcould be eitherā€ so I donā€™t think my result counts.

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I win, I got the highest score of 182. Now if they gave me the option of cyan as well as blue or green the outcome might have been different.

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Did it twice in a row on my laptop: 173, then 179. I spent most of my time thinking ā€œthis is effing turquoiseā€, and that I was having to arbitrarily assign one of the names to a color that was clearly on the boundary. I had to, in effect, convince myself that it was one or the other. So to me, at least, it was an exercise in deciding what I would call blue rather than an exercise in identifying that something is blue.

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195

ā€œYour boundary is at hue 195, bluer than 99% of the population.ā€

Looks like Iā€™ve really got the blues. That must be why Iā€™ve been feeling a bit low recently :wink:

To be honest, a few of the samples looked much the same to me. There goes my idea that I was quite good at assessing colour!