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Posted by theogravity 18 hours ago

Is my blue your blue? (2024)(ismy.blue)
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afandian 17 hours ago|
Cool to see this experiment crowdsourced.

Guy Deutscher’s “Through the Language Glass” is a very readable history of linguistic relativism, including the long history of this experiment. It even has some colour plates to illustrate. Recommended.

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/412264/through-the-language-...

diziet 17 hours ago||
There are colors in between blue and green that are neither blue nor green!
lokar 17 hours ago|
Any system of giving names to hues will necessarily use ranges.

I think the intent here is clear in context.

My_Name 4 hours ago||
Tried this on 2 monitors, made a difference of 77%-85%

I noticed that what I was actually seeing later on was 'is this more blue or green than the last colour' due to my eyes adjusting to the previous screen and just seeing the difference.

lrobinovitch 17 hours ago||
This is great!

Somewhat similar to a site I made a while ago, but for more "perception boundary" colors: https://theleo.zone/colorcontroversy/

gkhartman 17 hours ago||
How much does display calibration factor into this? I'm fairly confident it must impact the results, but unsure how much error it would introduce.
AntiUSAbah 17 hours ago||
I always wanted to have a color calibrator and a few years back i bought one.

all my displays were so well defined out of the box, it wasnot worth it at all. Like you would need to use this particular profile for proper real industry printers to even have any benefit of it if even because all my displays were well calibrated.

I would argue that this would only make sense for highly profesional graphics designer and i don't think this experiment requires this level of granularity.

swiftcoder 17 hours ago||
A lot of the color calibration obsession was from back when panels shipped with truly awful factory calibration. A quick perusal of rtings suggests that most manufacturers try and pre-calibrate their panels these days
nomel 16 hours ago||
Ambient light color would play a bigger part, with modern displays being fairly good.
PunchyHamster 2 hours ago||
shows turqoise

"Is it blue" ?

No clown, learn colors

isakmarr 2 hours ago|
I'm colorblind :(
pcblues 4 hours ago||
I had a colour-blindness test when I worked at an abattoir.

My job was to find odd things on a one third section of a side of beef as it went past and cut it off. 1500 or so per day.

The test showed numbers created with blobs of close colours.

The last test didn't have a number in it.

Cheeky buggers.

hyperpape 17 hours ago||
I think this site is doing a binary search, so that you narrow down on a boundary.

It would be much funnier, and also more insightful, if it didn't do this and let you contradict yourself.

aaronharnly 17 hours ago|
Yeah, as I was toggling "blue" / "green" / "blue" / "green" I had the distinct sensation that it might just show me that I was in a region where I couldn't even make a consistent distinction.
MrZander 17 hours ago||
Interesting. Looking at each in isolation, my boundary is pretty far into Green territory. But when I look at the gradient, I would place it far closer to the center.

Also, I found that sometimes it looked like there were two colors. The top was green and bottom was blue. Maybe my monitor?

junon 5 hours ago|
> Your boundary is at hue 164, greener than 94% of the population. For you, turquoise is blue.

No, turquoise is turquoise!!1

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