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276 points samwillis | 2 comments | | HN request time: 0.48s | source
1. gorgoiler ◴[] No.41084420[source]
This is fantastic. It gave me an idea about colors, perception, and gamut.

Put simply, imagine that there is a combination of wavelengths of light that causes you to perceive the smell of ripe cheese, and another that causes you to think that there is a bear behind you. Now your diagrams must be filled in not only with colored pixels but also include a small picture of a cheese and a bear at the points where those specific perceptions occur.

I think, in real life, this is what magenta is: a non spectral color that’s more of a feeling or sensation that, in order for our brains to not get too overwhelmed, we simply perceive as another color. This is also, I believe, close to describing a real phenomenon for those living with varying degress of synesthesia or, if you will forgive a play on words, those on the synesthesia spectrum.

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2. meindnoch ◴[] No.41089335[source]
>this is what magenta is: a non spectral color that’s more of a feeling or sensation that, in order for our brains to not get too overwhelmed, we simply perceive as another color.

Ummm. What?

Why would the brain get "overwhelmed" by non-spectral colors? You realize that spectral colors are pretty much non-existent in nature, right?