Under different light contexts an reflective object might be closer to either midnight blue or navy. Have you attempted using paint chips or something to test yourself under sunlight versus florescent light or anything?
Under different light contexts an reflective object might be closer to either midnight blue or navy. Have you attempted using paint chips or something to test yourself under sunlight versus florescent light or anything?
I know at the moment it seems to me that the colors are far enough apart that light conditions at my PC are not the main problem.
My notebook is slightly differently configured and I didn’t judge many Anki cards wrongly when answering on the notebook instead of my main monitor.
I know at the moment it seems to me that the colors are far enough apart that light conditions at my PC are not the main problem.
Your monitor emits light, so the light conditions matter less, mostly needing to overcome the ambient light (laptop in sun).
Most things don’t produce their own color though, they reflect varying amounts of the incoming spectrum. If that incoming spectrum is different, the outgoing spectrum is different. You can take advantage of that in various ways, but it might also confound the question of what color “is” this object.
Or maybe you automatically take that into account by using the ambient light as a reference, I was wondering whether you had tested for that or not?
Or maybe you automatically take that into account by using the ambient light as a reference, I was wondering whether you had tested for that or not?
At the moment I haven’t tested. I spent a total of 7 hours with the average of 5 minutes per day on the Anki cards and I seem to be getter better at color distinction.
Every card provides a binary choice. I have cards that present me with two color words and a large circle that’s filled with the corresponding color. The difference of the colors is at the beginning stage where I’m still at least a total 32 different hex values.
I also have cards that ask for the hex value of the colors.
There were some days were I traveled and used my laptop in other light conditions. They weren’t a problem.
For the time in 7 years I created cards to distinguish 4dc636 from 4dc637. That might run into issues with light conditions. I don’t know whether it does and whether the human mind is trainable to distinguish colors as finely, but I will find out if I continue spending my 5 minutes every day.
but it might also confound the question of what color “is” this object.
I don’t like “is” anyway for the reasons Korzybski layd out.
I want to increase the amount of bits I perceive through the visual channel. It’s an open experiment.
The outcome might be that I have color distinction in a few years that allows me to impress people with stunts. I might learn something valuable about colors that can be made into scientific paper or blog post. I also expect that I will get better at usability design even if I don’t get superhuman color perception abilities out of the project.
But you are right that having data about the light conditions would be good. I opened a thread on the QS forum about the search for a proper tool.
Under different light contexts an reflective object might be closer to either midnight blue or navy. Have you attempted using paint chips or something to test yourself under sunlight versus florescent light or anything?
Also, for sound perception: sox(1)
I know at the moment it seems to me that the colors are far enough apart that light conditions at my PC are not the main problem.
My notebook is slightly differently configured and I didn’t judge many Anki cards wrongly when answering on the notebook instead of my main monitor.
Most things don’t produce their own color though, they reflect varying amounts of the incoming spectrum. If that incoming spectrum is different, the outgoing spectrum is different. You can take advantage of that in various ways, but it might also confound the question of what color “is” this object.
Or maybe you automatically take that into account by using the ambient light as a reference, I was wondering whether you had tested for that or not?
At the moment I haven’t tested. I spent a total of 7 hours with the average of 5 minutes per day on the Anki cards and I seem to be getter better at color distinction.
Every card provides a binary choice. I have cards that present me with two color words and a large circle that’s filled with the corresponding color. The difference of the colors is at the beginning stage where I’m still at least a total 32 different hex values. I also have cards that ask for the hex value of the colors.
There were some days were I traveled and used my laptop in other light conditions. They weren’t a problem.
For the time in 7 years I created cards to distinguish 4dc636 from 4dc637. That might run into issues with light conditions. I don’t know whether it does and whether the human mind is trainable to distinguish colors as finely, but I will find out if I continue spending my 5 minutes every day.
I don’t like “is” anyway for the reasons Korzybski layd out.
I want to increase the amount of bits I perceive through the visual channel. It’s an open experiment.
The outcome might be that I have color distinction in a few years that allows me to impress people with stunts. I might learn something valuable about colors that can be made into scientific paper or blog post. I also expect that I will get better at usability design even if I don’t get superhuman color perception abilities out of the project.
But you are right that having data about the light conditions would be good. I opened a thread on the QS forum about the search for a proper tool.