The eye reacts differently to a tiny picture on a computer screen compared to how it reacts when it is looking at an object directly, for the eye judges color relative to its wider environment, and there are visual subjective factors due to the fact that we can't interact with the object. There may be sex differences also. Biologically, men's eyes have their color receptors concentrated in the center of vision, while women have them spread out more evenly, which is one reason why (besides bad manners) men tend to stare directly at objects of interest more than women do.
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I'm chuckling at the results so far, Marcus. I'm looking forward to your conclusions.
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ReplyDeleteI don't think that I am able to come up with valid conclusions, or at least good reasons why!
Our cameras and computers assume three primary colors, and that is true for roughly 90% of men, with the rest having some kind of color blindness. But I've read that perhaps half of all women can see four kinds of primary colors, with extra sensitivity in the red-orange range. Maybe this is why women have come up with (to me) apparently useless and ugly colors like mauve and puce!
Maybe this is why women have come up with (to me) apparently useless and ugly colors like mauve and puce!
ReplyDeleteLOL! Puce is the color of our altar cloth. It's incomprehensible to me why.