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bloodyrosemccoy) wrote2009-01-22 01:04 pm
bloodyrosemccoy) wrote2009-01-22 01:04 pm
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You know you’re a serious science fiction writer when you find yourself wondering how to look up just what trace impurities in a gemstone would give it an ultraviolet color—so it’d appear colorless to us but be brilliantly shaded to some other species with a different visible spectrum.
Yes, dudes, I take this stuff seriously.
Granted, this may stem from when I was a kid and I would try my damndest to imagine completely new colors. I don’t think it ever quite worked, but I sure did work at it. But it turns out it’s not for lack of wiring, so there’s still hope!
Yes, dudes, I take this stuff seriously.
Granted, this may stem from when I was a kid and I would try my damndest to imagine completely new colors. I don’t think it ever quite worked, but I sure did work at it. But it turns out it’s not for lack of wiring, so there’s still hope!
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This actually makes me wonder something: I'm guessing I'm not a tetrachromat (though it'd be fun to take a test), but there are some colors I see in my synesthesia that I cannot duplicate outside my head. They're all sorts of bizarre combinations of colors I do see, so I didn't think of them as new colors, but now I'm wondering about that.
There was a synesthete case study who was color blind (they didn't specify what kind of color blindness) and claimed that some of his synesthetic visions were in "Martian colors." So I guess it's more evidence for the wiring.
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