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!

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[ravenofdreams.livejournal.com]

The research I am doing on this seems to indicate that the brain is actually picking up on the difference between the responses of the two (the normal red or green and the red/green). I wonder very much how this changes the perception of someone like biomekanic, who should, I think, only have the one. As he can't then be seeing the difference, what is he seeing?