Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

zagubov

silvercar wrote: »

Colour blind?

http://www.playbuzz.com/jennifers/can-you-pass-a-color-blind-test

I scored 9/10, number 6 fouled me.

You might find this article interesting

Nikkster

zagubov wrote: »

You might find this article interesting

Colour perception is one if the many things that makes my tiny mind spin... We most likely perceive the same wavelengths as e.g. 'green'.... But what if my 'green' looks like your 'red'?? Would we ever know? We all know that grass is green (unless it's browny-yellow) and that the sky is blue (+/- clouds), but how know does everyone see them?

zagubov

Nikkster wrote: »

Colour perception is one if the many things that makes my tiny mind spin... We most likely perceive the same wavelengths as e.g. 'green'.... But what if my 'green' looks like your 'red'?? Would we ever know? We all know that grass is green (unless it's browny-yellow) and that the sky is blue (+/- clouds), but how know does everyone see them?

I've become fascinated by aspects of things like that. Most birds are tetrachromats like these special women the scientist was looking for. I linked to a vid made by a woman who was colourblind in one eye and who was like a human Rosetta Stone and could tell us what colour blind people see. Obviously when they see something the same colour as pillar box they call that red and the colour of grass green. The video showed that there were loads of ambers and ochres and umbers that colourblind people see where the rest of us see greens and browns.

The article suggest we see about a million shades but colour-blind people see 10,000. But intriguingly these women cold see potentially 100 million. They did point out it wasn't clear the natural world had that many shades and the artificial colours we make probably don't make use of the range of shades these women see, but I'm still a bit intrigued by what that must be like.

Let alone pigeons who've got five cones.:o

Nikkster

Well, I've just switched off my alarm... Let's see what time I wake up (early I expect)

PasturesNew

Huge lightning storm just rolled past; I've never seen the likes of it before - and with my "big sky" outside I could see a lot of it.

It was about 3-4 storms simultaneously, with lightning every 1-2 seconds for a full hour! Lots of rumbling thunder, but no big scary cracks of thunder ... just a constant rumbling.

I've seen lightning sorts I've never seen before. Fork lightning that went entirely horizontal - and one strange "sparkle" one that was just like a firework bursting into 10,000 LED sparkles.

After 5 minutes I decided to wimp out and turned off/unplugged the PC and the TV etc.

neverdespairgirl

Nikkster wrote: »

Definitely getting old... After Newsnight, watching a programme about the making of Crossrail. It's making me miss London

That's the opposite of old, surely?

Getting old is fancying leaving London for a nice, calm life elsewhere (-:

And going to bed before Newsnight ends, definitely.

zagubov wrote: »

You might find this article interesting

Fascinating, Zag - but also annoying, as I've just spent half an hour reading other articles pointed to from that one (-:

This was one such link:

http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?pageid=77&lang=en

you need to re-order colour tiles as they change gradually from, say, pink to green, to get the right order.

I got a score of 3. What about the rest of you?

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

Huge lightning storm just rolled past; I've never seen the likes of it before - and with my "big sky" outside I could see a lot of it.

It was about 3-4 storms simultaneously, with lightning every 1-2 seconds for a full hour! Lots of rumbling thunder, but no big scary cracks of thunder ... just a constant rumbling.

I've seen lightning sorts I've never seen before. Fork lightning that went entirely horizontal - and one strange "sparkle" one that was just like a firework bursting into 10,000 LED sparkles.

After 5 minutes I decided to wimp out and turned off/unplugged the PC and the TV etc.

PN, did you spot my post of the lady at BT who might, just possibly, get your telephone line installed this side of Xmas?

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?pageid=77&lang=en

you need to re-order colour tiles as they change gradually from, say, pink to green, to get the right order.

I got a score of 3. What about the rest of you?

"Your score: 30"
A lower score is better, with ZERO being the perfect score.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

PN, did you spot my post of the lady at BT who might, just possibly, get your telephone line installed this side of Xmas?

Yes thanks... I did thank it - and copied it to a .txt file to be used tomorrow if nothing magical happens overnight.

vivatifosi

Have been woken by huge thunderstorm and torrential rain. The clouds are very noisy tonight. But it does smell lovely.