Octarine

[bloodyrosemccoy]

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!

Comments

[biomekanic.livejournal.com]

I get the thing with beige, supposedly my car is beige*, but it looks silvery to me. Everyone else says "beige".

*and not "badge" as I first wrote.

[perlandria.livejournal.com]

Yea, I found out about the extra receptor when I asked a friend what color she would call a wall, taupe or a pale aubergine? She replied 'ummmmm beige. Do you see UV or something?'. So I started researching odd ways to see. Lots of them are on the X, and you have one of those :D.