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[Tribble]

In Danish "pink" actually translates as "light red".

Colour is a tricky thing to pin down. We are trichromatic, we have cone receptors that pick up on red, green and blue - the hues we see are our brain's interpretation of the relative values of those three colours.

Pink is the transition towards blue closest to red's side, purple is what happens to pink closer to blue - there are no hard borders.

The other fly in the ointment is our rod receptors, they're responsible for our brightness perception or greyscale - light to dark. Burgundy is lower in the greyscale, which might influence your perception of the hue.

Here's that burgundy on the left, on the right I've taken it from 20% greyscale to 80% - does it look more pink or more red now?



Excuse me if this is overly pedantic, I come from an art direction background, so this is kind of my jam.

This is fascinating and don't apologise. How the eye and brain work together really fascinates me.
That is definitely more to the pink side now. I had never thought in shades of that. I worked in pantones or HSV / RGB but never actually thought about it.

@biometrics that is fascinating too. It makes a lot of sense.

What has always fascinated me is how we seem in frames per second but our brain processes it as continuous motion. It just fills in the blanks.

I get a condition or a form of migraine, Akinetopsia (https://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/related/akinetopsia/) where moving objects disappear. It has only happened 3 times so far - but it is incredibly scary. The first time it happened, I was driving. All the cars disappeared. The other two times were while I was training. Everyone in the class disappeared but I could see the computers and hear the people. I just could not see them

 

[Tynkerbella]

In Danish "pink" actually translates as "light red".

Colour is a tricky thing to pin down. We are trichromatic, we have cone receptors that pick up on red, green and blue - the hues we see are our brain's interpretation of the relative values of those three colours.

Pink is the transition towards blue closest to red's side, purple is what happens to pink closer to blue - there are no hard borders.

The other fly in the ointment is our rod receptors, they're responsible for our brightness perception or greyscale - light to dark. Burgundy is lower in the greyscale, which might influence your perception of the hue.

Here's that burgundy on the left, on the right I've taken it from 20% greyscale to 80% - does it look more pink or more red now?



Excuse me if this is overly pedantic, I come from an art direction background, so this is kind of my jam.

Does the interaction between the rods and the cones have anything to do with why the suburbs look ghostly and washed out when my brother is driving me home after dark?

My mother studied art after school and worked as a display artist for a public library for a time.

 

[Tynkerbella]

What has always fascinated me is how we seem in frames per minute but our brain processes it as continuous motion. It just fills in the blanks.

I get a condition or a form of migraine, Akinetopsia (https://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/related/akinetopsia/) where moving objects disappear. It has only happened 3 times so far - but it is incredibly scary. The first time it happened, I was driving. All the cars disappeared. The other two times were while I was training. Everyone in the class disappeared but I could see the computers and hear the people. I just could not see them

Frames per second, surely?

The world around me has become trippy just before having a seizure. Things that have no business moving, do.

 

[Tynkerbella]

This is fascinating and don't apologise. How the eye and brain work together really fascinates me.
That is definitely more to the pink side now. I had never thought in shades of that. I worked in pantones or HSV / RGB but never actually thought about it.

@biometrics that is fascinating too. It makes a lot of sense.

What has always fascinated me is how we seem in frames per minute but our brain processes it as continuous motion. It just fills in the blanks.

I get a condition or a form of migraine, Akinetopsia (https://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/related/akinetopsia/) where moving objects disappear. It has only happened 3 times so far - but it is incredibly scary. The first time it happened, I was driving. All the cars disappeared. The other two times were while I was training. Everyone in the class disappeared but I could see the computers and hear the people. I just could not see them

I hope you were able to make it to the side of the road without finding yourself in Demolition Derby. [I shall have to think twice before getting into a car with you again.]

 

[KenMasters]

Does the interaction between the rods and the cones have anything to do with why the suburbs look ghostly and washed out when my brother is driving me home after dark?

The rod and cone receptors are how you see colour and contrast - why the suburbs look ghostly and washed out to you could be any number of things. Maybe it's the difference in lighting between urban and suburban environments, maybe the ghostly vibe is psychological with less people about - who's to say.

 

[Tribble]

Frames per second, surely?

The world around me has become trippy just before having a seizure. Things that have no business moving, do.

You are right - I shall edit it

 

[Tribble]

I hope you were able to make it to the side of the road without finding yourself in Demolition Derby. [I shall have to think twice before getting into a car with you again.]

Luckily that time it only lasted a few minutes. But yes - I was scared to drive for a long time after that

 

[AdrianH]

Getting a whole lot of spam lately At least Gmail spam filter is correctly identifying them and spamming them.

 

[Tynkerbella]

Subtlety? What's that?

 

[xcaliber]

Getting a whole lot of spam lately At least Gmail spam filter is correctly identifying them and spamming them.

Dirty boi

 

[Tynkerbella]

I am losing my mind, possibly getting my PC drives confused. Windows failed to boot thanks to boot sector corruption that appeared to have happened overnight. [cosmic rays?] I rebooted and got into Windows DiskGenius reported that the drive was mostly comprised of bad sectors. I confused it with another drive that was still under warranty and was going to use Hiren's BootCD [latest version i could find] to erase its contents. That saves me paying a courier fee and buying a padded envelope to send it back to Wootware for testing. I had bought the error-ridden disk elsewhere and it is out of warranty. For whatever reason, I ran it through BootGenius again. It found nothing wrong with the disk. Is my mind going?
Once BCM has replaced our stolen power cables, I am going to test each disk and record the results this time...

 

[Tribble]

I am losing my mind, possibly getting my PC drives confused. Windows failed to boot thanks to boot sector corruption that appeared to have happened overnight. [cosmic rays?] I rebooted and got into Windows DiskGenius reported that the drive was mostly comprised of bad sectors. I confused it with another drive that was still under warranty and was going to use Hiren's BootCD [latest version i could find] to erase its contents. That saves me paying a courier fee and buying a padded envelope to send it back to Wootware for testing. I had bought the error-ridden disk elsewhere and it is out of warranty. For whatever reason, I ran it through BootGenius again. It found nothing wrong with the disk. Is my mind going?
Once BCM has replaced our stolen power cables, I am going to test each disk and record the results this time...

It is not you - it does happen. I have a new SSD in my laptop. The other day I switched it on and Hard disk sentinel said its health was 50% after it showed the drive as missing first. Now it says the health is 100% and has said that every day since.

 

[Tynkerbella]

I was still fiddling with it this weekend after having taking out the motherboard so that I could plug the CPU cooler power cable again. I had managed to dislodge it. The top of my case in not removable and my hands do well in the meagre space there is to work in at that end of the motherboard.

 

[Longboi]

Getting a whole lot of spam lately At least Gmail spam filter is correctly identifying them and spamming them.

You need Jesus.

 

[AdrianH]

You need Jesus.

Not even Jesus can stop this spam

 

[biometrics]

Yay, got an offer on the house.

 

[Tribble]

Well done. Was this one you were renting out ?

 

[biometrics]

Well done. Was this one you were renting out ?

Lol, no. That one was sold but transfer is in June as the buyers didn’t want to take over the lease.

This offer is for the house we moved to in Hermanus. Bought in Fisherhaven now.

Yeah it’s a bit crazy, busy with three house transactions at the same time.

 

[Tribble]

Lol, no. That one was sold but transfer is in June as the buyers didn’t want to take over the lease.

This offer is for the house we moved to in Hermanus. Bought in Fisherhaven now.

Yeah it’s a bit crazy, busy with three house transactions at the same time.

It must be an absolute headache

 

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