Thread: A new color....

I heard that our eyes only see a small spectrum of colors....So, what is it when we see all the spectrums?....could that be possible?

Some women are tetrachromatic (unlike the rest of us, who are trichromatic). Apparently, this only gives them more depth to existing colors.

I bed if you tried, you could see in a version of infrared. Sure, it might translate into the visible spectrum (just like when we use an infrared reader machine), but I bet its heat-seeing qualities would remain intact.

Why would it be only more depth to existing colors? I'd personally think it would mean something like a color on the spectrum and its normal equiv in RGB look different.. how do you do that and still only have "more depth in existing colors"?

I guess my point is that you'd need 4 dimensions to represent the colors that a tetrachromatic person can see, but only 3 for trichromatic persons, so I don't think you can just map tetrachromatic colors to trichromatic colors..

First off, it is impossible to see "new" colors in a dream. See O'nus's post in the tutorial section, or do a search. I remember making a couple long posts about this a couple years ago.

Secondly, if you could see other forms of electromagnetic radiation, it would NOT necessarily manifest itself in the visible radiation part of the spectrum. It might have a "color" to it, but it would most likely have a unique attribute. It seems people seem to think it would simply look like a color because that is all we can comprehend, and when we take pictures that can detect other forms of electromagnetic radiation, we see it manifested in wavelengths we can see. It is impossible for our minds to comprehend what another form of electromagnetic radiation wold actually look like, simply because we have never seen it before. It is the same way with imagining a "new" color. It is absolutely impossible to imagine a "new" color in our brain. Perhaps another form of EMR would be a color, but it would be a color we've never seen before. We cannot comprehend what it would look like though.

I don't think the Lounge is the proper place for this thread.

I'm sorry, but I fail to see how three numbers can describe every color for a person who sees 4 primary colors..

Originally Posted by Xibran123

I heard that our eyes only see a small spectrum of colors....So, what is it when we see all the spectrums?....could that be possible?

I guess your are talking about infrared and ultraviolet light, stuff like that. I guess you could "see" them, or at least the interpretation you have of what it would look like. You could see everything in violet or something, i doubt your brain could really recreate a color its not made to perceive from the start. Im going to try it , its a great idea for an experiment.

Certain animals can see infrared and ultraviolet light. Snakes can see infrared and I believe that dogs can see a little bit of ultraviolet.

If you could see everything then the world would be very very bright

Originally Posted by Sgeo

Why would it be only more depth to existing colors? I'd personally think it would mean something like a color on the spectrum and its normal equiv in RGB look different.. how do you do that and still only have "more depth in existing colors"?

RGB can't show all of the colours in the spectrum without having negative R values. The standard is the XYZ colour spectrum.

The XYZ system can produce every colour possible. Light waves are two dimensional.

Did you see other colours in a dream or something? If not I'm going to move this to the lounge.