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Is the world more blue or more brown?
Lurk
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There isn't much to do in a hospital, so I have been fooling around with my eyes (closing one eye, than the other...exciting stuff) to kill time. This resulted me in remembering that my eyes have different color balance. Not sure if that is a real term, but that's what I call it.
My left eye sees the world in a very slight blue tint.
My right eye sees the world in a very slight brown tint.
My left eye is also tiny bit more clear in seeing at long distances than my right eye.
This creates interesting scenarios where I have a visible line on the peripheral of my vision where things are more clear on the left peripheral than on the right. I very rarely notice the color difference though, unless I am looking at a white wall for a long time.
So, I have been wondering, what tint is our world? Blue or brown?
My left eye sees the world in a very slight blue tint.
My right eye sees the world in a very slight brown tint.
My left eye is also tiny bit more clear in seeing at long distances than my right eye.
This creates interesting scenarios where I have a visible line on the peripheral of my vision where things are more clear on the left peripheral than on the right. I very rarely notice the color difference though, unless I am looking at a white wall for a long time.
So, I have been wondering, what tint is our world? Blue or brown?
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Depends on the lighting.
Is it? I recall that the sky is blue because, by the time the light hits earth, the bands have separated and the only wavelength we can see is blue. So, couldn't things be more blue as you get farther away because there's more light between you and the object?
As for color differences, what you view can really depend on if you've been looking through a certain color for a while- try wearing some of those red/blue 3D glasses for a while, and after you take them off one eye will view everything with a cold color temperature and the other with a warm temp.
You're both kind of wrong! :P This is the main reason for the sky's colours, but only the strength of it depends on the medium. Red light is always scattered more than blue light, because the scattering depends on the wavelength of light.
My answer to the OP would be a boring almost philosophical one: You can only define the colour balance relative to another colour balance, so unless you rip out your eye and have turns at replacing it with a lot of other peoples', you're never going to know.
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I think all eyes are like this, lot's of people just never notices. I read a theory somewhere that it had something to do with our depth perception but I can't find a decent source for that now.
Im also pretty sure you have a type of color blindness in one eye. You seem to be lacking a type of photoreceptor in your eye that makes you see only part of color (brown'ish). Its looking at color in a 2-dimensional view.
Every single one I've pointed this out to realized that they also have a different color temperatures on their eyes. Easiest way to see it is looking at a white wall in indirect sunlight. I'm looking right now at a white wall but with indoor lights and it's pretty hard to see a difference.
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I'm having a really hard time wrapping my head around this statement.
what can really fuck you up is how do you know if what you perceive as red isnt what i percieve as blue?
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It's a pretty pretentious statement but it's not really saying anything. Wavelengths of light exists in absolute values, colors don't because it's the individual perception of those waves. I.e what's purple to you might just be violet to someone else :P
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A hypothetical creature with no sight organs, but one that has exceptional hearing, may be able to "hear" color, based on ambient sound waves being reflected by or absorbed into the color, the same way we "see" color from photons.
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Man, I used to think about this so much. What if what I see as green, other people see as black, and if I could look through their eyes everything would be totally fucked?
My conclusion was that it really doesn't matter, because you learn from a very young age what colours are what, and that's just normal to you. It's entirely possible that I see red as a completely different colour to someone else, but if we both call it red, there's no tangible difference.
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And this is why it hurts and you're blinded when you turn on a light at night. Because there's tiny explosions in the back of your eyes.
So, expanding on this theory, I'm assuming that different levels of chemicals in your eyes will cause different sized tiny explosions, which in turn will cause your eyes to see slightly differently. Try covering one eye for half an hour and seeing if this changes the results of your tests.
I'm trying to develop a game where you can shoot at those tiny squiggles that you see when you look up at the sky.
on a kind of related note, some of those squiggles are apparently leftover bits of tissue from when your eye was forming in utero. they just sort of never leave. others of them are bits of stuff in your tears.
It's even more abstract than that. We only have three color receptors that respond to specific wavelengths, so the wavlength that excites the one receptor looks red to us, so we call it red, same for blue and green. Everything else is some combination. "Yellow" light has a specific wavelength, but it just excited the red and green receptors partially. If you shoot the right amounts of red and green light into your eye it'll look yellow. (This is how a CRT works, BTW) And then there's something like "brown" where there is no single wavelength of light that will make you see it, it would be a combination of at least red, green, and blue.
TL; DR: How we percieve color has little to do with how light actually works.
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magenta is only sort of a colour! violet and red do not actually meet in the spectrum and whowooowooaaaaaaa
It's even more abstract than that. We only have three color receptors that respond to specific wavelengths, so the wavlength that excites the one receptor looks red to us, so we call it red, same for blue and green. Everything else is some combination. "Yellow" light has a specific wavelength, but it just excited the red and green receptors partially. If you shoot the right amounts of red and green light into your eye it'll look yellow. (This is how a CRT works, BTW) And then there's something like "brown" where there is no single wavelength of light that will make you see it, it would be a combination of at least red, green, and blue.
TL; DR: How we percieve color has little to do with how light actually works.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I know. It would be interesting if we could alter our eyes to percieve even more of the light spectrum.
Thank goodness for the color wheel, so the spectrum can wrap around back to red.