Anyone else notice that orange and red get mixed up a lot?
These are mine:
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https://i.imgur.com/Nrll971.png
I scored 42, but most of the areas where I had issues were in blues. No matter how I arranged the blues I couldn't get them to look right, so I just did the best I could.
I do use f.lux 99% of the time I am at a computer, but I disabled it for this color test. I don't think I have any form of color blindness, I just never developed a good ability to tell apart similar hues of colors.
@Duoas: I know the term 'reddish' but that doesn't affect what parent color it is from.
https://i.imgur.com/fgyDxOE.png
https://i.imgur.com/Nrll971.png
I scored 42, but most of the areas where I had issues were in blues. No matter how I arranged the blues I couldn't get them to look right, so I just did the best I could.
I do use f.lux 99% of the time I am at a computer, but I disabled it for this color test. I don't think I have any form of color blindness, I just never developed a good ability to tell apart similar hues of colors.
@Duoas: I know the term 'reddish' but that doesn't affect what parent color it is from.
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Nice!
I said 'redder', not 'reddish', but either way, there is no such thing as a 'parent color' in light. (Such things only exist when combining media, which is usually a subtractive substance, like oils.)
Either the color has some red in it or it doesn't. Orange is made from red and yellow.
I said 'redder', not 'reddish', but either way, there is no such thing as a 'parent color' in light. (Such things only exist when combining media, which is usually a subtractive substance, like oils.)
Either the color has some red in it or it doesn't. Orange is made from red and yellow.
Maybe with the RGB representation you can say "either the color has some red in it or it doesn't", but that's not how real light works. A color is either closer to red, closer to orange, or closer to yellow. You might say orange is equidistant to yellow and orange, but you can say that about a lot of distinct colors. There's a reason yellow-blue is an impossible color.
I don't actually understand what we're disagreeing on.
I don't actually understand what we're disagreeing on.
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| that's not how real light works |
But that doesn't matter. What matters is how the brain perceives light. You can take it in a single, pure wavelength, or you can take it as a mixture of actually distinct wavelengths. It all gets transformed to a hue somewhere along your brain's idea of the color spectrum.
| yellow-blue is an impossible color. |
| I don't actually understand what we're disagreeing on. |
You stated that "They don't even look remotely similar to me" and posted images of very a distinct red and orange. But the Portal 2 orange is often a very saturated, bends towards red, on fire orange.
But even if you are looking at a very distinctly not-that-red orange, it is still redder than yellow, making for an easy red-yellow-blue -- 'it's red' kind of response. Hence my comment in Klingon: Because they are the same color.
Of course they are distinct colors, but in terms of perception, they are not so distinct as colors on opposite sides of the color wheel, which is what I thought your question was about in the first place: why do people say "red" when it's actually orange?
The human brain, when asked to make a quick judgement, will often choose the grossest degree of discrimination, particularly when further computation is irrelevant in context.
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| The human brain, when asked to make a quick judgement, will often choose the grossest degree of discrimination, particularly when further computation is irrelevant in context. |
Not to mention, color perception can be influenced by the languages you speak. Russian has more words to describe the different types of blue, and IIRC studies show that this affects how well Russian speakers can differentiate between blue colors.
Some languages don't differentiate between "green" and "blue":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinction_of_blue_and_green_in_various_languages
Never heard of specific issues with Red vs Orange, but I'd say they're more similar in my mind than green and blue, so I can totally see why people would interchange them. (And then add that on top of lighting and contrast and other surroundings, as already discussed).
Some languages don't differentiate between "green" and "blue":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinction_of_blue_and_green_in_various_languages
Never heard of specific issues with Red vs Orange, but I'd say they're more similar in my mind than green and blue, so I can totally see why people would interchange them. (And then add that on top of lighting and contrast and other surroundings, as already discussed).
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Yeah, I learned about that a while back but all the cases of red-orange confusion I can think of are with native English speakers. I think what Duoas said was spot on, since every case of confusion I can think of was during casual speech where the person wasn't really thinking about what they were saying.
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What? I always thought the portals were orange and green?!
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I'd have guessed that if you've gotta say it repeatedly like on a YouTube play of portal then it just becomes a little easier to skip a syllable every time and say red... dunno?
What? I always thought the portals were orange and green?!
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I'd have guessed that if you've gotta say it repeatedly like on a YouTube play of portal then it just becomes a little easier to skip a syllable every time and say red... dunno?
Assuming you're American then? XD
I know they do the same with the word garage.
I know they do the same with the word garage.
https://i.imgur.com/7DLFTis.png?
Now, I did have the most difficulty around the third row, the blue-green to purple row. Apparently though, it wasn't actually that much difficulty.
Now, I did have the most difficulty around the third row, the blue-green to purple row. Apparently though, it wasn't actually that much difficulty.
Just read some more of this thread and in reference to the thing about different languages effecting colours, the Greeks didn't even have a colour for blue and it was essentially the same as grey, and theirs also some tribes somewhere (documentary long ago that I can't remember) that can't recognise hue at all, but they are extremely good at recognising different shades... even if the hue is completely different.
Kinda odd how people think my car is blue.
http://www.euro-target.net/foto/ETBN_Offerte/1006270/1006270_23_0.jpg
My test results:
(How can somebody go minus zero in this test?)
http://www.euro-target.net/foto/ETBN_Offerte/1006270/1006270_23_0.jpg
My test results:
- Your score: 8 - Gender: Male - Age range: 16-19 - Best score for your gender and age range: -160 - Highest score for your gender and age range: 378079 |
(How can somebody go minus zero in this test?)
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Exactly what color would you call that car, if not blue?
Remember, most people don't have stuff like B90p running through their heads, and blue is the most dominant color running through that particular purple.
[edit] I don't either. Thanks internet. https://xkcd.com/903/
Remember, most people don't have stuff like B90p running through their heads, and blue is the most dominant color running through that particular purple.
[edit] I don't either. Thanks internet. https://xkcd.com/903/
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| Kinda odd how people think my car is blue. |
I think it's more odd that you don't think it's blue. Maybe it's the lighting... but to me it looks like halfway between Navy Blue and Royal Blue:
http://i.imgur.com/2CVUBlM.png
I guess your car has a hint of purple in it... but it's definitely closer to blue than it is to purple.
