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BBB #14: Color

2018-04-17

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A discussion of color vision, reflections on the internet's most talked-about dress, and the design choices of using color in content.

Notes

Jamie Wong's fantastic post "From Hexcodes to Eyeballs"

http://jamie-wong.com/post/color/

Study on how the Russian language influences the perception of blue.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11759-russian-speakers-get-the-blues/

Asymmetries in blue–yellow color perception and in the color of ‘the dress’

http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(15)00542-4

Interview with a tetrachromat

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/02/what-like-see-a-hundred-million-colors.html

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A Rotating Lady Illusion
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Color Is a Tennis Ball
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Kind Of Corresponds to Where on the Color Wheel It'Ll Fall in the Output Space and We Sort Of Illustrate What's Going On with that and Everything and It's Almost like It's Leveraging a Different Dimension That We Humans Have Available to Us It's Not Just Left Down Up Right but It Is Also the Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Violet Dimension and Being Able To Use that To Communicate like What this Function Is It's Actually Quite Useful At Least for at a Conceptual Level I Mean It's Not the Case That You'Re GonNa Solve an Algebra Problem because You Could See this
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There's Just Four Dimensions Worth of Information That You Want To Get Down There on the Screen or in Thinking about like the Neural Network You'Ve Got this Two-Dimensional Grid of Inputs and Then You Want another Two-Dimensional Grid of Things so It's like Again the Sort of Four Dimensions of Stuff That You Want To Try To Like Put On There and that's the Really Interesting Territory I Think When It Comes to Contemplating How Okay Is It To Lean on Color Where like if It's the Case That You'Ve Really Just Run out of Other Options for What Human Senses You Might Be Able To Pull into Think Multi-Dimensional a like this I Don't Know My Own Disposition
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