Color poll

[nancylebov]

Untangle reminded me of how much I like rich dark blue, so....

[Poll #1121045]

A little something about animal, insect, and cephalopod eyes.

Comments

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Other: Other shades of blue.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

I wish there'd been some way to insert a color chart.

Which shades of blue?

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

I might have known you would comment here.

(Happy 2008!) (You too, nancylebov!)

[dmk.livejournal.com]

Paisley!

Apparently, I have some vision into ultraviolet. When I was in High School, a Chemistry or Physics teacher showed us spectral lines projected on the wall. At one point, he was demonstrating that range varies among people. He asked if we could see two or three lines in the purple range; I said five. He was surprised.

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

Paisley is a pattern, not a color, but point taken nonetheless.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Other: Indigo, since it's the underdog color.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

I thought indigo was pretty much like twilight blue, but apparently not.

Were you just going for the name, or do you have a particular shade of blue in mind? If the latter, what shade?

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Count me for indigo, as well. I checked "twilight blue" as the closest thing to it.

Among the Crayolas, "VIOLET BLUE" was the one that floated my boat.

More info than you probabl needed.

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Context has a lot to do with it. I tend to think about color a lot in the context of painting miniatures, and there, colors are heraldry, and so color follows form/function; black is pretty, but hard to make show up when your piece is 1.25" tall.

In most contexts I tend to like deep blues and greens, though not as much when together. My car is brilliant blue (by choice). My livery in daily life is gold, black, and (dark) green; my livery in SCA garb is blue, white and gold. I dislike yellow, except for my beautiful yellow motorcycle.

So...it varies. :)

My dad takes pictures in the near-infrared and ultraviolet, using special paper and filters. Very interesting stuff, especially the UV -- it looks almost like a negative of a night shot, with a bright sky but generally dark landscape. Having either in my eyes would be kind of cool, especially if I could turn the extra colors on and off. Dusk would be much more bearable if I could actually *see* all that UV that is swamping my night vision.

On the motorcycle, I wear polarized sunglasses, and the helmet visor twists the light slightly. This makes anything shiny look iridescent, which is a little distracting -- but is very useful for spotting potentially slippery sewer lids.

[captain-button.livejournal.com]

"More sorts of color receptors"

In my case, proper red and green ones, instead of the miscalibrated or absent ones I have now.

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

Beige, of course. :)

I know you and i have radically different perceptions of blues and greens.

[dmk.livejournal.com]

In what way?

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

Hm. This is hard to explain. Her vision is more green-shifted than mine, so we don't always agree on the shade/color of a green or blue. There are shades of green and blue i can tell apart, but she cannot easily. Walking past a bank once, she noticed the green, but the blue did not register until i pointed it out and she focused hard on it; it was a Bay Bank/BancBoston.

That doesn't really begin to explain it well, but that's the gist of it.

[gildedacorn.livejournal.com]

It would be easier to list the colors I *don't* like.

I am what they call an "autumn" person, and the colors that look best on me are red and orange and yellow and brown and any mixture or combination thereof. However, I also have an attraction to almost all shades of blue, especially deep rich ones and mystical-looking dusty ones.

Not to mention a fondness for black, not for Goth reasons (No.) but because it goes with everything and because my mother always said it made you look thinner. (Mind you, she *was* thin and she wore it anyway.)

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

I carry a little diffraction grating in my checkbook, and have been known to use it to teach kids the difference between emission-line light sources (like LEDs and fluorescents) and black-body sources (like incandescent bulbs). They also help you understand why one flavor of fluorescent looks different from another (e.g. orangish sodium-vapor vs. bluish mercury-vapor).

[redbird]

I actually like the bright blues sometimes called "royal blue" or "sapphire" better than either twilight or sky blue. (The tag for this icon is "purple.")

Colours

[anniemal.livejournal.com]

Range of sky at sunset. Dark rose, Dusty rose, all those pinks. Cabernet sauvignon or merlot. Fog grey. Purples almost brown or grey. So many uncategorizable shades of blue. *sigh*

Infrared vision

[anniemal.livejournal.com]

Infrared vision would keep me from stepping on or kicking bonnie wee beasties in the dark.

Re: Infrared vision

[dmk.livejournal.com]

Ain't that the truth! They must really wonder about our variable clumsiness.

[cellio]

Other: just plain blue -- the blue that's in the middle of the blue section of the color wheel.

My color preferences are highly context-dependant: what I want on my walls, my car, my clothing, my arwork, my garden, etc are all different.

I can see into the ultraviolet. I'm still waiting for this to be good for something. :-) (Apparently "black lights" aren't really cobalt blue to most of y'all. Ok, if you say so.)

[dmk.livejournal.com]

Apparently "black lights" aren't really cobalt blue to most of y'all. Ok, if you say so.

Really? Hmmm. I thought they were called "black" simply because they didn't light up the room so much. They're clearly cobalt blue! Heck, "white" lights aren't perfectly white, especially the older ones, which definitely had a strong yellow cast.

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

Black lights look deep bluey-purple to me, nowhere near cobalt.

[cellio]

I'm told that most people see black lights as the deep purple that I see them as when I put my glasses on. (Glasses, at least with plastic lenses, have some amount of UV filtering. I assume this is true of contacts, but I don't wear them so I don't know.)

Is sunlight distressingly bright to you too? It is to me.

Yes, white light isn't white, and I find I'm very fussy about my lightbulbs. The biggest problem of the coming ban on incandescent bulbs for me is that CF bulbs are the wrong color. I guess in 2012 (?) I'll be buying a lifetime supply of bulbs for my reading lamp, at the very least. (I don't care one whit about energy impact if the cost is not being able to read books.)

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

I see UV lamps as purple, but it isn't exactly a deep purple.

Are all CF bulbs too blue for your? I'm using a mix of old-fashioned-- somewhat orange-- and "sunlight"-- way too blue-- for a fairly satisfactory result.

[cellio]

I don't know. They sell one type at the grocery store I frequent, and that's too blue. I didn't know there were other types. If there are yellow-leaning ones, maybe there will be more success for me there. Where should I be looking for the bulbs?

[axejudge.livejournal.com]

Pale grey, burgundy, pale pink. Yes, I am drawn to colors I look good in.