My father was close to retirement when I happened to show him a magazine article concerned with "color blindness". He just could *not* see any hidden letters in a page of dots...although those letters composed of red dots were very obvious to others, buried as they were in a field of green, blue and yellow. His first reaction was that I was putting him on...then that the magazine was pulling every readers leg! Somehow he was able to get through life without seeing colors as the majority saw them, and without knowing that he was different from that majority. To me that's clear evidence that we, individually, probably don't see colors in the same way...I'd suspect that universal bell-curve applies here too. John W. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark A. Freeze" <mfreeze@mailent.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 11:08 AM Subject: RE: [Fractint] FOTD 17-11-02 (The Bluest Atom [5])
I have no scientific basis for my thoughts on this matter, however, my opinion is this: Being punched in the eye and seeing color is entirely different than recognizing that the can of Coke on my desk is of a red color. I also disagree with the statement that I recognize that the coke can is a different shade of red than the red barrel of my pen just because someone 'suggested' that it was darker, or by some subliminal implantation of shading when I was younger. If color, at some point is not waveform, then when I make a black mark on my Coke can with a marker is that just imagination that I see? If color is subjective, how do we all know that a stop sign is red? By the shape? If things are that subjective, how would we ever know that our Ziploc's are sealed with the blue-and-yellow-make-green seal? If we thought the bag was sealed, regardless of its state, wouldn't we see it as green?