How do we see color? WHAT IS A COLOR EVEN?! This started as a simple question and led me on quite a journey into how our visual system really works. Let me know what you think!
I would add one interesting fact which should be in this video: Not just we cannot sense certain colours, there are colours that we can see but doesn't exist. There is no corresponding wavelength to magenta or cyan. basically it is made up by our brain.
@minutephysics had a video sponsored. It was about Ssabilizing buildings during earthquakes, and Henry used the Lego Saturn V Rocket set to demonstrate.
J: "This one looks green." M: "Nope that's yellow." J: "This one looks red" M: "That's still pretty yellow." J: "This one looks black." M: "Yeah that's dark blue." I tend to be able to perceive and explain colors to people better than most people with regular vision though, since I've loved optical physics for a while now. It never gets any less weird when I think something is orange until I pick it up and realize it's a leaf and it magically becomes green in front of my eyes.
I actually think about this a lot. Would it be hypercolored or would the shrimp zone out other colors just as we zone out other environmental noise? Some birds see the Earth's magnetic field, how would that be like? How is Superman's regular eyesight be like? Can he see the same image on the screens of tv's, computers, and phones as we do?
It would look the same. Certain humans have 4 cones and they don't see extra colors. They are just extra unnecessary points of reference on the color wheel.
@@trapez77 Well, we don't know that, do we? They have the same words for colors as we do, because that's how language works. And they're seeing the same wavelengths of light, because that's how physics works. But what their brains actually tell them they're seeing? It almost has to be different, in ways we trichromats can never experience.
@@geniusmp2001 There was a painter that lost some coating on one of their eyes, that allowed them to see in ultraviolet can't remember the guy's name but he's a 19th century painter.
Finally, a proper explanation on color and color theory! Most science channels do a terrible job explaining color, and they make inaccurate statements. But you did a great job! Only thing is that I wish you went into more detail explaining how the color opponent process actually relates to what colors we perceive, but still a great job overall.
I have not watched yet But i am assuming its based on the fact that we dont actually see yellow our brains extrapolate the colour. Besides there is only one Cavendish banana all plants are effectively clones.
I just love the "easter egg" in the music track of the video when Isaac Newton holds the prism ( at 1:42 ) - you can hear a short bit of the song titled Time by Pink Floyd from around 5 minutes in the song. Which is a cool reference to the graphic design of the album titled The Dark Side of the Moon... I already loved this channel, but now I'm completely amazed! :)
I looked up this specific video just to say, thank you, I remembered certain concepts from this video which were out of our exam syllabus but came in the question paper anyway and it saved me from losing a lot of marks!
3:50 Hooray! Finally a chart that shows that red sensing cells get slightly activated by blue light. That's the reason we see violet wavelength looking like purple, and why humans are one of probably very few creatures for which a color wheel makes sense. That very important little bump usually gets left out of most chart.
I was hoping you'd touch on tetrachromacy here, because I find that fascinating. I wonder if people with 4 kinds of cones have different opposite-colours or can see see blue-yellow as an actual colour.
As an artist that spent their whole life exploring light and hues and values.. It all comes naturally now when I draw , but Every time I had that same thing explained I wondered..” how do you dye the same thing multiple colours? Why everything has their own shade ?” And it was all in front of me.. why does wet paint look more vibrant? And duller when dry.. thanks for this. Helped me figure out most of my questions
Back when Micheal actually made TH-cam videos without the "TH-cam Premium" brand malarkey. I miss the old style videos which always came off as equal parts scientific and philosophic by the end
Heard part of this on a podcast just recently so this video is perfectly timed for me! Explained more than what I knew. The tricking your eye into seeing yellow on screens is crazy
HA Man, that "keep staring and watch what happenes" had me looking so intently at the screen...I was definitely not prepared for that ad! Gotta say, hats off, one of the most comically timed ads I've ever experienced lmao Thanks for the laugh. Having me 4 inches away from phone screen looking at a kholes ad, I felt played, I was so invested 🤣
I really enjoy watching these videos, it's really cool to learn his w things create other things and vice versa. That and the guy that introduces this show is a stud and really puts out for this show.
Wow, I’m 36 and have never understood how we see color. I have a masters degree and it still just never made sense. Over the years, I just repeated how the process works and that was it. But when you used the bucket explanation and showed how the brain doesn’t differentiate from when we collected just the yellow “balls” from when we collected the red and green....well it finally clicked. Thanks dude
6:48 This is fascinating! I have red/green color blindness, so the afterimage I see doesn't have any red in it - I see the blue star background, but I also see the stripes as blue (maybe a little bit purple... But mostly blue)
Was just about to post something about that section of the video! I'm red/green colorblind as well, didn't notice difference in the 'opposite' color, saw the same
I was also going to post something similar. I'm also slightly colorblind and I didn't see any red. I also had not noticed that part of the flag was green, I thought it was all yellow! I was surprised when he said the stripes were red. I didn't think that color blindness had an effect on the color perceived on an after image, although I guess when thinking about it, it does make sense.
Amazing, I'm a colour specialist, I literally talk about this subject( in a bit more depth) to other designers in a course called Colour Matters. ❤️❤️❤️
@Henry Stax I mean it's an extremely complex subject specially for us Interior Designers and as I always say, one can not control colour but try to understand it's fluid behaviours, that's all I try to teach them....
That’s an absolutely great video on color, Joe! One of the best I’ve seen. As an artist and color nerd, I just have a little correction to make: the opposite of red is not green, it’s cyan. Red and green are like two vertices of a equilateral triangle; they are not opposites to each other. You gotta think of RGB and CMY as integrated to visualize the correct complimentary couples. You can imagine an RGB triangle where red is at the top, and then imagine the CMY triangle overlapping it but at a 180° angle, forming like a 6-pointed star. In between green and blue, at the bottom point will be their product: cyan, which is opposite to red. In the same way, the opposite of green is magenta and the opposite of blue is yellow. If you don’t believe me, you can do the afterimage experiment, tiring your eyesight of the red stimulus and then looking at a blank screen. You’ll see cyan, not green. And the color that’s in the middle of the hue circle/star/triangle is gray; it’s what all colors have in common, and that’s why it’s a lot easier to harmonize any two colors that are closer to gray than two very saturated colors.
"Try imagining a color between blue and yellow." "Green." "You can't. Try imagining a color between green and red." "Yellow." "You can't" "You lost me."
What color is a banana? Me: Well, it depends on how ripe it is. Could be green, yellow, or black during its life... oh, ummm, or based off the light you use. 😐
8:08 I beg to differ: how animal visual systems work is much more elegant than what cameras do. Even if us vertebrates have evolved a retina back to front...
Magenta, cyan and yellow are based on the printing model. These are the colours printers use. White is the paper colour and if you remove red from white you get Magenta, remove blue and you get Cyan and remove Green then you get Cyan.
i avoided watching this video for quite a while because I thought it'd be the same "everyone could see colors differently and we'd never know" argument. once again, I've underestimated this channel. i am not disappointed.
This episode reminds me of an essay by Oliver Sacks, “The Case of the Colorblind Painter.” The painter could only see a monochromatic world from the blue side of the spectrum. Blue would appear white and red would come out as black.
@@jacquejac1840 A surprisingly large portion of the population are color blind and don't know it. It takes some odd experiment like this one for them to realize they have been seeing things a little different from most other people their entire life.
@@kindlin Huh. I didn't know that. I still saw red & blue when he pointed them out, but the afterimage was more like a shadow flash for me. Black became white like he said, but the yellow & green became two shades of grey. Guess that's kinda colorblind of opposites, if that's a thing?
I can't tell you how many times people have tried to explain eyes to me -- those rods/cones never made sense! But I finally get it! The probability explanation was one I've never seen before and it just clicked. Thanks!!
You took me back to when I was at school 20 years ago... what our science teacher said was roughly the same as you just spoke except our science teacher said 'That is why our brains are the wrong way round' The left controls the right and the right the left. I can remember all of the students (including myself) asking 'Why does each side control the opposite side of our brain?' To which the teacher just said 'That's why we have mirrors.
Finally! This thing was bugging me for more than a decade, when i first learned that colors are just wavelengths in the spectra, but some how also can be mixed. Thanks!!!
@04:53 _Light from red & green pixels hitting your eye creating the sensation of yellow._ In the early to mid 20th century a certain blue pigment cake (I don't recall the name in English) was added to the water/soap when washing old yellowed bed sheets. As the pigment concentrates in the "depressions" between the threads it *compliments the mesh of yellow threads with blue points in between which the eye, unable to distiguish tiny details, interpret the bed sheets as white,* or at least whiter than they really are.
As I understand it, cyan and magenta are primary colors only in the way printers use ink - in fact, magenta isn't even a wavelength of light (unlike other colors like cyan and green), it's the result of our eyes/brains interpreting the average of a bunch of red light and a bunch of blue light, which are on opposite ends of the visible color spectrum. Cyan, magenta, and yellow are "primary" colors in printing because printing uses additive coloring, so they need to use very light colors so that layering them over each other doesn't make the resulting colors too dark. The ""real"" primary colors of visible light are red, green, and blue, for the reasons listed in the video.
I tried lsd once and honestly the most trippiest part was colours, I’d look up to the night sky and light would just keep changing wave length. Many colours. Really made me think how our minds work.
Similar happened to me on shrooms. I was staring at my friend's tapestry and it started cycling through different colors (and the concentric design on it changed and moved, almost looked like at eyeball at one point). That was the first time I did shrooms and I haven't been able to recreate that experience sadly, but it is a cool memory at least.
I’m really surprised you didn’t mention that there is no such thing as magenta. I think that’s such a cool example of how our vision isn’t quite “real”.
Joel Hjerten Yeah, cyan is supposed to be opposite of red, green from magenta/purple (depending on what kind of green you started with), and yellow from blue.
Cyan is just as valid of a colour as yellow ! Looking at cyan magenta yellow light is just like looking at red green blue light because it looks white. We can have a material that looks white under sunlight but purple under RGB light - it only needs to absorb a very specific wavelength of green light that coincides with the wavelength of the green light in rgb.
I have been teaching color for 7 years now and was hoping this would be a video I could share without pausing the video to make comments to my students... Red and teal are opposites not red and green. Colors that are simultaneously red and green at the same time are brown which is dark yellow. True opposites become neutral or gray such as magenta and green. Nonetheless, I do like the video. Thank you for your hard work.
I think you made amistake. In the tri-axis system you positioned yellow against blue and green against red. But in the same sense that yellow is anti-blue, shouldn't cyan be anti-red and magenta be anti-green? White-black would be on a 4th axis.
You are absolutely correct. Somehow, this part of the video is wrong. If you invert the US-Flag you'll actually get cyan stripes, not green. The illusion works even better that way too. I tried to find the source of that complementary model he presents in the video but the sources are actually not listed in the description (just the name of one professor). It's surprising how few people are pointing this out. Thanks for mentioning it.
Loved it! I have just put coloured lights above my bed, they give 15 different colour combination (plus white) with just three kind of light... and I have much fun seeing how it mixes them :-D
We did this in science class. We used pictures of different colors under different color lights. It's kinda like that 3D glasses test cheat where u write notes in blue & red. It's neat to see what shows up underneath what color picture u see
How do we see color? WHAT IS A COLOR EVEN?! This started as a simple question and led me on quite a journey into how our visual system really works. Let me know what you think!
I’m a banana I’m a banana look at me
Trees Are Yellow
So without light there is no color?
I would add one interesting fact which should be in this video: Not just we cannot sense certain colours, there are colours that we can see but doesn't exist. There is no corresponding wavelength to magenta or cyan. basically it is made up by our brain.
@@goawayplease6456 Yes
I can’t believe he didn’t say, “colour is just a pigment of your imagination” at the end. Joe, my man, step it up
I AM ASHAMED THAT I DID NOT THINK OF THIS
colorblind people: i don't get it
@@Urfcannon the colorblind guy who try to sort m&ms: the poop am I doing
*wHo's jOe?*
I also don't think that he would say he quite so british!
"unpossible" - joe 2019
Me fail english class? That's "unpossible"!
sorry i had to
Other channels: Squarespace, Brilliant, Curiosity Stream, etc.
ItsOkayToBeSmart: *LEGO CITY*
Ryan Dupuis yeah, nice
He does have a kid after all.
You forgot skillshare and honey
Ryan Dupuis sure....
Lego: the ad I won’t skip
"Don't move your eyes. Just keep staring and watch what happens.." then bam
Ads.
Ya got me
same lmao
Same here
Don't move your eyes, just stare...
RAID SHADOW LEGENDS
I never thought I'd see a TH-cam video sponsored by Lego
Yep
No man I saw
Jerry rid everything channel
Check it out
Some of the scishow channels have been sponsored by them
JerryRigEverything had one video sponsored by Lego
@minutephysics had a video sponsored. It was about Ssabilizing buildings during earthquakes, and Henry used the Lego Saturn V Rocket set to demonstrate.
"I can pretty much guarantee you will never look at colors the same way ever again"
Me a colorblind:
I feel you man
Joe: “now look at how the green turns to red”
You: 😐
F
J: "This one looks green."
M: "Nope that's yellow."
J: "This one looks red"
M: "That's still pretty yellow."
J: "This one looks black."
M: "Yeah that's dark blue."
I tend to be able to perceive and explain colors to people better than most people with regular vision though, since I've loved optical physics for a while now.
It never gets any less weird when I think something is orange until I pick it up and realize it's a leaf and it magically becomes green in front of my eyes.
Same
Clearly it’s banana coloured, Joe
dryboneskirby this is underrated
dryboneskirby The video would have been different if he had used oranges instead...
0 0 joe mama
I wanted to like this comment but it's at '69' right now and I really feel it should stay on that.
Joe, oh banana Joe 🎶
6:45 "...and watch what happens"
TH-cam: This seems like a fine time for an intrusive ad!
The ad had green stripes
Yeah it was. God forbid you watch an ad on a free video. Btw, youtube creators can pick where the ad is placed in the video.
I wonder what colors would look like from a mantis shrimps eyes with their 16 cones.
I actually think about this a lot.
Would it be hypercolored or would the shrimp zone out other colors just as we zone out other environmental noise? Some birds see the Earth's magnetic field, how would that be like? How is Superman's regular eyesight be like? Can he see the same image on the screens of tv's, computers, and phones as we do?
It would look the same. Certain humans have 4 cones and they don't see extra colors. They are just extra unnecessary points of reference on the color wheel.
@@trapez77 Well, we don't know that, do we? They have the same words for colors as we do, because that's how language works. And they're seeing the same wavelengths of light, because that's how physics works. But what their brains actually tell them they're seeing? It almost has to be different, in ways we trichromats can never experience.
@@geniusmp2001
There was a painter that lost some coating on one of their eyes, that allowed them to see in ultraviolet can't remember the guy's name but he's a 19th century painter.
Be one.
Finally, a proper explanation on color and color theory! Most science channels do a terrible job explaining color, and they make inaccurate statements. But you did a great job! Only thing is that I wish you went into more detail explaining how the color opponent process actually relates to what colors we perceive, but still a great job overall.
I'm no big city banana scientist or anything, but I'm pretty sure they're yellow
WHAT TIME IS PURPLE
I have not watched yet But i am assuming its based on the fact that we dont actually see yellow our brains extrapolate the colour. Besides there is only one Cavendish banana all plants are effectively clones.
@@nikoha1763 NOPE IS MIDNIGHT'
I know what you're doing bigfoot! Your trying to be the next Justin y
or are they?
I just love the "easter egg" in the music track of the video when Isaac Newton holds the prism ( at 1:42 ) - you can hear a short bit of the song titled Time by Pink Floyd from around 5 minutes in the song. Which is a cool reference to the graphic design of the album titled The Dark Side of the Moon... I already loved this channel, but now I'm completely amazed! :)
Beginning of video: yellow!
End of video: yellow?
XD
Ah, I'm so glad you included that part from Time in the video showing the prism and the light. Thank you.
I looked up this specific video just to say, thank you, I remembered certain concepts from this video which were out of our exam syllabus but came in the question paper anyway and it saved me from losing a lot of marks!
For more info on color read the works of Red Hering and Howard Hues.
3:50 Hooray! Finally a chart that shows that red sensing cells get slightly activated by blue light.
That's the reason we see violet wavelength looking like purple, and why humans are one of probably very few creatures for which a color wheel makes sense.
That very important little bump usually gets left out of most chart.
"What colour is a banana? It depends on-"
The species?
"how you look at it."
Okay that turns philosophical real quick.
When he said that i was thinking of ripeness
@@CarlosGarcia-ze6rt +1
Inteligence +1
I was hoping you'd touch on tetrachromacy here, because I find that fascinating.
I wonder if people with 4 kinds of cones have different opposite-colours or can see see blue-yellow as an actual colour.
Joe: The impossible hugeness of deep time
Also Joe: What colour is a banana?
Defne Duru Topçu who’s Joe?
@@Ag-kt3je Its youngster joey. Fight me
Fooxie Gamez i don’t get it,is that sugondese? 🤔
@@Ag-kt3je charizard use flamethrower
As an artist that spent their whole life exploring light and hues and values.. It all comes naturally now when I draw , but Every time I had that same thing explained I wondered..” how do you dye the same thing multiple colours? Why everything has their own shade ?” And it was all in front of me.. why does wet paint look more vibrant? And duller when dry.. thanks for this. Helped me figure out most of my questions
Title makes for a good “Hey Vsauce Michael here.”
Vsauce messed up his explanation of why lemons appear yellow. Glad this video did better there.
Back when Micheal actually made TH-cam videos without the "TH-cam Premium" brand malarkey.
I miss the old style videos which always came off as equal parts scientific and philosophic by the end
Lol yeah i said the same thing hahaha
@@CharlieDB96 His TH-cam premium videos are just like that and they are free to watch
Joe: I garentee you will never look at color the same way again
Me: Is that a threat or a warning?
I liked the part about the colors.
6:42 dont move your eyes, just focus *ads pops out*
me : wtf?
Sameeee
Adblocker
This video is really a-PEEL-ing
I'll get you your coat Luv.
"Eye,-Peeling"
That was super cool. Can you do a followup on colorblindness?
"It's unpossible!" You made me chuckle. That's a gift you have son. Thank you.
Heard part of this on a podcast just recently so this video is perfectly timed for me! Explained more than what I knew. The tricking your eye into seeing yellow on screens is crazy
"We can even judge what color something is under wildly different sources of light."
Except that damn dress.
old ass dead meme bro
@@SevenPr1me so what lol
@@aluksus9327 ofc a Russian wouldnt care
It was found to black and blue, even though I saw white and gold.
@@SevenPr1me That meme will never die.
HA Man, that "keep staring and watch what happenes" had me looking so intently at the screen...I was definitely not prepared for that ad! Gotta say, hats off, one of the most comically timed ads I've ever experienced lmao Thanks for the laugh. Having me 4 inches away from phone screen looking at a kholes ad, I felt played, I was so invested 🤣
"All it takes is a little bit of separation to reveal what's really there." I didn't expect relationship advice with my science. XD
So close to 3 million as I post this you are at 2.99 million
Keep up the good work
as being a science student and an artist....
*nervously laughs*
I really enjoy watching these videos, it's really cool to learn his w things create other things and vice versa. That and the guy that introduces this show is a stud and really puts out for this show.
Colour blind people: ....'ight Imma head out
Wow, I’m 36 and have never understood how we see color. I have a masters degree and it still just never made sense. Over the years, I just repeated how the process works and that was it. But when you used the bucket explanation and showed how the brain doesn’t differentiate from when we collected just the yellow “balls” from when we collected the red and green....well it finally clicked. Thanks dude
6:48
This is fascinating! I have red/green color blindness, so the afterimage I see doesn't have any red in it - I see the blue star background, but I also see the stripes as blue (maybe a little bit purple... But mostly blue)
Was just about to post something about that section of the video! I'm red/green colorblind as well, didn't notice difference in the 'opposite' color, saw the same
I was also going to post something similar. I'm also slightly colorblind and I didn't see any red. I also had not noticed that part of the flag was green, I thought it was all yellow! I was surprised when he said the stripes were red. I didn't think that color blindness had an effect on the color perceived on an after image, although I guess when thinking about it, it does make sense.
Echo explains this so well honestly bless her
Amazing, I'm a colour specialist, I literally talk about this subject( in a bit more depth) to other designers in a course called Colour Matters. ❤️❤️❤️
@Henry Stax I mean it's an extremely complex subject specially for us Interior Designers and as I always say, one can not control colour but try to understand it's fluid behaviours, that's all I try to teach them....
@@leesilva9597 You should make videos about it.
In 32-bit?
@@leesilva9597 ah maybe you are the right person for my question, what is the origin of colours?
That’s an absolutely great video on color, Joe! One of the best I’ve seen. As an artist and color nerd, I just have a little correction to make: the opposite of red is not green, it’s cyan. Red and green are like two vertices of a equilateral triangle; they are not opposites to each other. You gotta think of RGB and CMY as integrated to visualize the correct complimentary couples. You can imagine an RGB triangle where red is at the top, and then imagine the CMY triangle overlapping it but at a 180° angle, forming like a 6-pointed star. In between green and blue, at the bottom point will be their product: cyan, which is opposite to red. In the same way, the opposite of green is magenta and the opposite of blue is yellow. If you don’t believe me, you can do the afterimage experiment, tiring your eyesight of the red stimulus and then looking at a blank screen. You’ll see cyan, not green. And the color that’s in the middle of the hue circle/star/triangle is gray; it’s what all colors have in common, and that’s why it’s a lot easier to harmonize any two colors that are closer to gray than two very saturated colors.
The phrase, “The Sensation of Yellow” sounds like a short story I need to write.
I wanna write a book titled that
Did you wrote it?
"Try imagining a color between blue and yellow."
"Green."
"You can't. Try imagining a color between green and red."
"Yellow."
"You can't"
"You lost me."
What color is a banana?
Me: Well, it depends on how ripe it is. Could be green, yellow, or black during its life... oh, ummm, or based off the light you use. 😐
Or based on the type of banana. Specifics XD
th-cam.com/video/OzBljesOQf4/w-d-xo.html
And that is just the peel. The middle can be a off-white or brown if it has gone bad.
Could be any colour if you paint it
that is true it really depends on ☝️
Amazing video and you narrated expertly.
8:08 I beg to differ: how animal visual systems work is much more elegant than what cameras do. Even if us vertebrates have evolved a retina back to front...
"Elegant" is subjective. He didn't say it wasn't. And animal visual systems are less efficient and effective than modern cameras
The best explanation of the yellow color I've seen so far
Light: red blue green
Dark: magenta cyan yellow
Magenta, cyan and yellow are based on the printing model.
These are the colours printers use.
White is the paper colour and if you remove red from white you get Magenta, remove blue and you get Cyan and remove Green then you get Cyan.
@@08wolfeyes That's not true. You remove *green* from white to get magenta, red from white to get cyan, and blue from white to get yellow.
i avoided watching this video for quite a while because I thought it'd be the same "everyone could see colors differently and we'd never know" argument. once again, I've underestimated this channel. i am not disappointed.
you should explain color blindness and why some people have that
Im colorblind
probably cones broke in some way
Simple, You're eyes just receive it wrongly
Like you're eye plugged the blue light to the green or whatevrr
Mistake of evolution that wasn't harmful enough to die out, to my knowledge.
@@cop9743 wha
Never knew any of this so it's so fascinating how many extraordinary things you can find out every day!
That was the WORST execution of a terrible pun ever!
I loved it!
i think it's really creative the way you made everything up instead of researching it
5:58 'Unpossible'?
Possible+impossible=unpossible
This episode reminds me of an essay by Oliver Sacks, “The Case of the Colorblind Painter.” The painter could only see a monochromatic world from the blue side of the spectrum. Blue would appear white and red would come out as black.
2:15
Him: one grey one green
Me: um those are the exact same color
Him: what if I said they were the exact same color
Me: am I a joke to you
You are among those rare people who can spot this.
I knew they are the same, too, but only because I saw similar tricks before.
6:40 I only saw grey & white in the afterimage there too, no blue or red.
@@jacquejac1840
A surprisingly large portion of the population are color blind and don't know it. It takes some odd experiment like this one for them to realize they have been seeing things a little different from most other people their entire life.
@@kindlin Huh. I didn't know that. I still saw red & blue when he pointed them out, but the afterimage was more like a shadow flash for me. Black became white like he said, but the yellow & green became two shades of grey. Guess that's kinda colorblind of opposites, if that's a thing?
Very good explanation of the subject dear to my heart. you should do one about infrared and ultraviolet too
Interesting how the background shot of his room has everything except red, blue, green and yellow greyed out.
I can't tell you how many times people have tried to explain eyes to me -- those rods/cones never made sense! But I finally get it! The probability explanation was one I've never seen before and it just clicked. Thanks!!
You forgot to mention that purple doesn't exist!!
Kris @3:50 Blue and red receptors do overlap, which is why we see purple. Purple is just not on the wavelength spectrum.
science man show us forbidden magenta
@@diamondsmasher no purple just doesnt exist. Color blind people agree
Unless you can see in UV, that's true.
Great job breaking down a complicated process.
You took me back to when I was at school 20 years ago... what our science teacher said was roughly the same as you just spoke except our science teacher said 'That is why our brains are the wrong way round' The left controls the right and the right the left. I can remember all of the students (including myself) asking 'Why does each side control the opposite side of our brain?'
To which the teacher just said 'That's why we have mirrors.
That's ... odd. Doesn't sound right.
👁👄👁
Finally! This thing was bugging me for more than a decade, when i first learned that colors are just wavelengths in the spectra, but some how also can be mixed.
Thanks!!!
" Yellow light has a wavelength of about 580 nanner-meters...".....hhmmm.
8:39 Honestly since you revelied them as the same colour, I've been seeing them as such ever since.
4:49
**Laughs in Sharp Aquos Quattron**
@04:53 _Light from red & green pixels hitting your eye creating the sensation of yellow._
In the early to mid 20th century a certain blue pigment cake (I don't recall the name in English) was added to the water/soap when washing old yellowed bed sheets. As the pigment concentrates in the "depressions" between the threads it *compliments the mesh of yellow threads with blue points in between which the eye, unable to distiguish tiny details, interpret the bed sheets as white,* or at least whiter than they really are.
I was hoping you would explain more about Cyan and Magenta being actual primary colors rather than what we are taught in school
As I understand it, cyan and magenta are primary colors only in the way printers use ink - in fact, magenta isn't even a wavelength of light (unlike other colors like cyan and green), it's the result of our eyes/brains interpreting the average of a bunch of red light and a bunch of blue light, which are on opposite ends of the visible color spectrum. Cyan, magenta, and yellow are "primary" colors in printing because printing uses additive coloring, so they need to use very light colors so that layering them over each other doesn't make the resulting colors too dark. The ""real"" primary colors of visible light are red, green, and blue, for the reasons listed in the video.
I tried lsd once and honestly the most trippiest part was colours, I’d look up to the night sky and light would just keep changing wave length. Many colours. Really made me think how our minds work.
Similar happened to me on shrooms. I was staring at my friend's tapestry and it started cycling through different colors (and the concentric design on it changed and moved, almost looked like at eyeball at one point). That was the first time I did shrooms and I haven't been able to recreate that experience sadly, but it is a cool memory at least.
6:43 really!? exactly when he finished the sentence there popped up 2 nonskippable ads before the white screen.
Same here
It had stripes...
I watch your videos right before starting a job which would require concentration.
Your videos help me question life itself. Keep it up.
Didn't check if someone already said this: what about the blue of butterflies or the colors after you get titanium. They are not the color we see 😊😜
I have only watched two of your video and have learned so much. I have so many questions answered
Me, as an artist:
This basically color theory...
Also:
*Flashbacks to learning color theory*
Artist ptsd
I love the video! What kind of microphone are you using? It seems to be some kind of nice area mix, unless you’re hiding a lapel mic.
I’m really surprised you didn’t mention that there is no such thing as magenta. I think that’s such a cool example of how our vision isn’t quite “real”.
Magenta is one of my favorite color
Or white, or brown.
What? But thats the color of my sisters phone case!
After technology connections and others, now you, I love this topic :D
Guys this is freaking insane
This is the best ever educational video i seen in TH-cam
HATS OFF 🤜🤜🤜🤜👏👏👏👏👏
Shut up idiot.
Other channels: What color is 🍌?
Me: Stupid channel, Stupid video, FOOLISH QUESTION.
PBS: What color is 🍌?
ME: Let's have a look..
😂🤣😂
"Where there was green.." I saw Magenta, NOT Red. The opposite/after image to Red is Cyan or Blue-Green if you will.
Joel Hjerten Yeah, cyan is supposed to be opposite of red, green from magenta/purple (depending on what kind of green you started with), and yellow from blue.
6yo me at Walmart: (gasping) "They have GREEN bananas here!"
1:30 colorblind people: *confused screaming*
my friend cant see red gradient
Man I never end of getting amazed by your videos!!! Thanks man!
Did you rip this idea from Technology Connection's videos? They did one recently about the exact topic. Interesting video regardless :)
Technology connection's video explained better the white balance that occurs in our brains which made the two X's in this video look different.
Cyan is just as valid of a colour as yellow !
Looking at cyan magenta yellow light is just like looking at red green blue light because it looks white.
We can have a material that looks white under sunlight but purple under RGB light - it only needs to absorb a very specific wavelength of green light that coincides with the wavelength of the green light in rgb.
I have been teaching color for 7 years now and was hoping this would be a video I could share without pausing the video to make comments to my students... Red and teal are opposites not red and green. Colors that are simultaneously red and green at the same time are brown which is dark yellow. True opposites become neutral or gray such as magenta and green. Nonetheless, I do like the video. Thank you for your hard work.
Yeah, there's some work to be done here on opponency.
I think you made amistake. In the tri-axis system you positioned yellow against blue and green against red. But in the same sense that yellow is anti-blue, shouldn't cyan be anti-red and magenta be anti-green? White-black would be on a 4th axis.
You are absolutely correct. Somehow, this part of the video is wrong. If you invert the US-Flag you'll actually get cyan stripes, not green. The illusion works even better that way too.
I tried to find the source of that complementary model he presents in the video but the sources are actually not listed in the description (just the name of one professor). It's surprising how few people are pointing this out. Thanks for mentioning it.
Doesn't the "don't acknowledge flat earthers" shirt directly acknowledge flat earthers?
don't acknowledge the shirt
I'm not even going to dignify that with a response.
Oh, wait, I.... I just....
One of my favorite episodes. Thank you.
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This video is so informative, I learn so much.
I'm color-blind and I found this video hilarious!
I can't read and I didn't find your comment.
space in va der I assume that I made mistake, let me know because Im not english speaker, I will correct it
@@grodt88 I'm not an english speaker as well nor any kind of speaker - I'm a human who makes really dumb jokes
Congrats almost 3M subs
"That's bananas!"
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This is amazing! Nice presentation. Thanks Joe.
Me : Yellow
It's Okay To Be Smart : *no*
also It's Okay To Be Smart: its obviously yellow
also also It's Okay To Be Smart: but also not
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Basically : Well yes , but actually no
Loved it! I have just put coloured lights above my bed, they give 15 different colour combination (plus white) with just three kind of light... and I have much fun seeing how it mixes them :-D
WHAT TIME IS YELLOW
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We did this in science class. We used pictures of different colors under different color lights. It's kinda like that 3D glasses test cheat where u write notes in blue & red. It's neat to see what shows up underneath what color picture u see