How about inventions then...The guy who invented a bicycle never saw one before?
2006-08-23 19:01:14 · 12 answers · asked by rekha c 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Actually, he did. The parts were there before. Wheels and chains. And such.
This is part of the solution to the creative mystery. Most inventions are new combinations of old things.
Now for your initial question: Our color experience derives from activation of cortical areas like V4 or V8 that process color. It is not a conscious process. This activation corresponds to the perceived qualities of our colors. New ones are not imaginable, as the activity in the space bounds the spectrum.
2006-08-23 19:42:24 · answer #1 · answered by Ejsenstejn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A new colour could be either:
- a pure colour outside the visible range (ultra-violet, infra-red)
- a mixed color that the human eye cannot distinguish from other mixed colors with the same intensity, hue and saturation. Birds and reptiles have four base colours while primates like humans have only three, so birds and reptiles can distinguish blends that look identical to us.
Also, we have an overlap between the red and blue receptors' sensitivity range which is why we have the illusion that there's something between red and blue (purple). In principle, an animal might see reddish purple and blueish purple as two entirely unrelated colors if it does not have this overlap - it may even see two tones of purple that are indistinguishable to humans as complete unrelated.
2006-08-24 03:58:02 · answer #2 · answered by helene_thygesen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
About the colors... notice the human eye has a limitation on what colors could be "seen". So colors are defined, named, described based on what we see as humans. Very relative there, pretty much. About invention, what do you think sweetheart? Now that you have seen something, go ahead an invented - I am sure it would be so original. Good Luck!
2006-08-24 02:09:36 · answer #3 · answered by Cocos K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about the colour you sense the second you're born, or the color a person feels the second after they go blind. Too many people try to get all scientific when people pose questions. yeah we all know that human sight can really only see a limited amount of refracted solar light. So what You didn't answer her question. All you said was "the sky is blue", but we already knew that. What she wants to know is ..... do you have an imagination enough to see beyond the blue.
Albert Einstein said...."Imagination is more important that knowledge". I imagine he saw a whole lot more colors than the box of 64 Crayons that most of us had.
I can only imagine what my eyes will see..............
2006-08-24 02:46:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey colours are not created by intelligence...they are generated by the effect of light and deciphered by our brains...and you can name as many colours as you can see ! The human eye can see as many as 70,00,000 colours though subtle differences are hard to notice and many of these colours are irritating to human eye too !
Inventions, on the other hand, are limited only by the ingenuity of the human mind !!
2006-08-24 03:06:12 · answer #5 · answered by Nisha 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's what we call inventors. People spend most of their lives thinking and imagining ideas. It may seem rediculous in the beginning. But then we realize they are smart.That's why they are renowned. Because they think more than average people. Most of them become billionaires. And yes I can think of new colours because your eyes always see colors that are beyond the basic colors you learned in school.
2006-08-24 02:11:35 · answer #6 · answered by biochick11220 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are no new colors between red and indigo violet. Any new colors have to be outside the human visual spectrum. I'm not talking about mixtures of existing colors that we can see. And then would not be new, just new to us since we can't see them.
2006-08-24 02:04:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
plode
is a new colour
it looks a little bit
like
2006-08-24 02:02:57 · answer #8 · answered by johnny_p_hall 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the color of light
2006-08-24 02:09:51 · answer #9 · answered by laurennn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Blurple.
Voila.
There, I did it. It CAN be done.
2006-08-24 02:02:19 · answer #10 · answered by freyas_kin28 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋