When you look at a colour, does the person standing next to you see the same colour? Is it possible for example to know red as red all your life but you are actually seeing green and the person next to you is seeing blue but you are both calling it red?
And what is puce a similar colour to?
2006-10-25 01:45:06 · 12 answers · asked by noggintrude 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
have you ever heard of "beauty is in the eyes of the beholder" the same apply to colours. because we are told that a colour is blue or red does not necessarily means that is actually the colour. we see the colour we want our eyes to believe it is seeing because its what we have conjured in the mind that appears in our vision. so in answer to your question, the person next to you does not see the same colour as you but what his mind conjured up in his vision.
2006-10-25 01:58:23 · answer #1 · answered by kaydee 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Excellent question, for a change. When at school a few of me friends were colour blind and until the annual medical examination there were many arguments. However to your other question what is puce, i believe puce is the new black, or was that last year ? it may actually be the new beige. My favourite colour is blue, although now i think it's called Combine harvester sky with a hint of Aubergine.
2006-10-25 02:54:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would be able to find out by asking someone the colour of something you've pointed out, no doubt, they would call it the same
as you. But would their red, for example, be the same as yours?
If as a child you were told that red was blue you would still see the same colour, just the name is different.
2006-10-25 01:53:44 · answer #3 · answered by Thisbysghost 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We all have different perceptions of what something maybe be but there is always a base for example the colour red it is the colour red but when asked to desribe what it might be associated with some may say love the other may say anger
2006-10-25 01:48:51 · answer #4 · answered by laydeeheartless 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People with colour blindness may see a different colour from the rest of us. So red is not actually red, it is only the colour our eyes/brains interpret it to be.
2006-10-25 02:18:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Subbtle differences can be teased out by pictures that rely on relative color perception as it relates to contrast.
There are a few differences that have been noticed, red green color blindness being one and I recall reading about some variations in the way red was percieved. The differences in the red thing were very slight and were traced to genetic variation in the genes for photoreceptor cell types in the eyes.
2006-10-25 02:51:32 · answer #6 · answered by corvis_9 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes - I have wondered about this too but we have no way of really proving it. Puce is a type of red.
2006-10-25 01:51:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well whenever you look at something you're actually seeing the light reflecting from it which is what gives you everything you see.
Puce is more pinkish I thought.
2006-10-25 01:49:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
HAve to say that i sometimes say that a colour is greenish and my friend says it is more blueish - but always this same friend though...
you see i thought puce was a bit grey...
2006-10-25 02:46:48 · answer #9 · answered by justme 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I once thought that. But I realize how the color spectrum is set up, so this isn't true. Puce? I don't know.
2006-10-25 01:48:51 · answer #10 · answered by RB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋