Brown; color is weird

Worth watching the Technology Connection video on the colour Brown [1]. It's a strange colour that only really exists when placed in the context of other colours, not something that can really be produced by a pure RGB light source, which explains why the CSS Brown colour looks red. [1]: ▶ this video

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Worth watching the Technology Connection video on the colour Brown [1]. It's a strange colour that only really exists when placed in the context of other colours, not something that can really be produced by a pure RGB light source, which explains why the CSS Brown colour looks red. [1]: ▶ this video

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Fyi on a semi-related topic I learned from a fascinating Youtube video... the color "brown" is a psychological construct[0]. But from an RGB perspective ... there's no such color as "brown"; it's actually just "orange" in a particular context: ▶ this video [0] pedantic alert: yes "every color" is ultimately a mental construct of the brain but hopefully you know what I mean

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See Technology Connections' video about Brown: ▶ this video He says brown is perceived when you see an orange-wavelength light that is significantly darker than its surroundings, providing the necessary context for your brain to interpret it as brown.

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> Well no, it's turquoise, that's why we gave it a whole different word. For some people "pink" does not exist as a concept, it is "light red". In English we talk about "light blue", but an Italian may talk about azzurro ( galazio (γαλάζιο) in Greek; kachol (כחול) in Hebrew). Is azzurro its own colour different from "blue" for everyone, or only for Italians? Is "pink" a different colour than (light) red? Before the different word of "turquoise" was created, did the colour still exist and/or be perceived? * [link] If a language/culture does not have a word for "blue" does that mean the colour does not exist? * [link] * [link] Where does "white" end and "grey" begin? Where does "grey" end and "black" begin? * [link] * [link] * [link] Also, a bit of fun with brown: * ▶ this video

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Brown is different, because you can only see it in the right context, otherwise it becomes orange. You cannot create brown light sources. ▶ this video Not naming certain colours does not mean they cease to exist. They can be split, created, and we have the receptors to perceive them.

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Brown and orange are not different colors. For some illogical reason we prefer to think that they are: ▶ this video

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Brown is weird [1]. It's basically dark orange. Flesh tones fall into that same category - people are orange-hued [2]. Oranges/reds are mostly produced by various unsaturated molecules, such as carotenes, lignins, phenols, and tars, and browns are just dark collections of many kinds red-orange pigments. It does not map well to any of the common color spaces because its inherently heterogeneous. The solution would probably be pallettes that let you pick arbitrary axes to move through color space. 1 - ▶ this video 2 - According to Neil Harbisson, the guy with the color-sensing antenna, in-person conversation, but you can also verify with photoshop.

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