The entire visual spectrum is Infra-violet. It is also Ultra-red.Captain Underbeard said:
To imagine anything beyond our current visual range is as impossible as visualizing the fourth dimension.
try to imagine a new colour
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To imagine anything beyond our current visual range is as impossible as visualizing the fourth dimension.
As far as my knowledge of the visible light spectrum goes, it's impossible.
But the Disc world Novels spring to mind.
http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/Octarine
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It doesn't come at a surprise that I was ninja'd.
But the Disc world Novels spring to mind.
http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/Octarine
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It doesn't come at a surprise that I was ninja'd.
You can't imagine a new color because you need some real-life basis, and since you can only see the colors that you, well, can see, there is no basis.
I laughed pretty hard.emeraldrafael said:
Is this an example of imagination actually being nothing new and original, but just the compilation and combination of pre-existing learned knowledge?
that thread started me thinking on this train of thought, but I hadn't seen that post yet.let said:
I laughed pretty hard.emeraldrafael said:
Is this an example of imagination actually being nothing new and original, but just the compilation and combination of pre-existing learned knowledge?
that thread started me thinking on this train of thought, but I hadn't seen that post yet.let said:
I tried, concentrated so hard. Then it was in my mind for a second.
Then my head exploded all over the wall and painted the walls with a boring red that we already know.
Then my head exploded all over the wall and painted the walls with a boring red that we already know.
I think the next step is smelling colours. Than after that, hearing them. For the shits and giggles we will go as far as fucking colours for the more perverted, desperate, and poor that cannot afford whores.
Don't worry though friends, when I am bored enough I will just sit for about... *looks at watch* 60 years and imagine a new colour.
Don't worry though friends, when I am bored enough I will just sit for about... *looks at watch* 60 years and imagine a new colour.
Colors don't work this way.
You got five colors: Red, Blue, Yellow, Black, White. Mixing them makes everything else. You cannot imagine seeing anything beyond that, as those are the only colors in the visual light spectrum.
Going beyond these colors just takes you into Inferred and Ultra Violet, which are as visible as Radio waves, Micro waves, Radiation, X-ray, etc.
The best I can do is to claim that there is another color that one can imagine that is the absence of color, not black or white, but nothing. Words fail to describe it, but when your thinking of seeing no color or nothing, this is the color your brain sees. Though for all purposes the color used for this, you'd do just as well to imagine that it is the same as Black or White, since your eyes will never see anything more colorless than that, unless you count seeing the transparent.
Technically, humans have similar limits in the ranges of sounds we can hear, and smells we can smell. Smells work similar to colors too, but there are a lot more than 3 primary smells, and since this is based on the chemical structure of particles in the air its totally possible for there to be more smells than we can smell. In fact, the general theory now is that everyone has a primary smell they can't smell, which alters how everything smells to them. (If you couldn't see blues, then blue things would look black, purple things would look red, and green things would look yellow.) And since smells are strongly connected to our memory and mate selection, the implication that everyone's smell is incorrect may explain why we differ so much.
You got five colors: Red, Blue, Yellow, Black, White. Mixing them makes everything else. You cannot imagine seeing anything beyond that, as those are the only colors in the visual light spectrum.
Going beyond these colors just takes you into Inferred and Ultra Violet, which are as visible as Radio waves, Micro waves, Radiation, X-ray, etc.
The best I can do is to claim that there is another color that one can imagine that is the absence of color, not black or white, but nothing. Words fail to describe it, but when your thinking of seeing no color or nothing, this is the color your brain sees. Though for all purposes the color used for this, you'd do just as well to imagine that it is the same as Black or White, since your eyes will never see anything more colorless than that, unless you count seeing the transparent.
Technically, humans have similar limits in the ranges of sounds we can hear, and smells we can smell. Smells work similar to colors too, but there are a lot more than 3 primary smells, and since this is based on the chemical structure of particles in the air its totally possible for there to be more smells than we can smell. In fact, the general theory now is that everyone has a primary smell they can't smell, which alters how everything smells to them. (If you couldn't see blues, then blue things would look black, purple things would look red, and green things would look yellow.) And since smells are strongly connected to our memory and mate selection, the implication that everyone's smell is incorrect may explain why we differ so much.
WELL this question is actualy deeper then you think...becasue think about it how are you sure my red isnt your blue? but we would never know becasue the way we preseve the world is unique to us so inventing a new color is more tricky then you think 
Maybe, if you think about it enough, you have a brain haemorrhage, and THEN you see the new colour...