Null Hypothesis | Magenta Ain’t A Colour A beam of white light is made up of all the colours in the spectrum. The range extends from red through to violet, with orange, yellow, green and blue in between. But there is one colour that is notable by its absence (click here to check). Pink (or magenta, to use its official name) simply isn’t there. But if pink isn’t in the light spectrum, how come we can see it? from {laurie} マゼンタはどうして見えるのか?というお話しです。 そ... 続きを読む 96 コメント
What would you call these colors? We showed thousands of random colors like this to people on Mechanical Turk and asked what they would call them. Here’s what they said: The above picture contains about 1,300 colors and the names for them that Turkers gave. Each is printed in its color and positioned on a color wheel. Just looking around, there sure seem to be different regions for different names. But there are also rich sets of modifiers (”light”, “dark”, “seaR... 続きを読む 2 コメント