America in Color from 1939-1943

[JWBear]

Originally Posted by Alex

But it is entirely possible to determine that something is green without rods and cones being involved.

Indeed. If what iSm said were true, then those paint color matching machines at the hardware stores wouldn't work.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Or, more to the point, even if you DO accept the philosophically valid position that color is only perception, it does not therefore follow that black and white is a "truer" state of the world since describing things as black and white still requires accepting 99.999999% of what makes color "only perception" as true. If you aren't acknowledging the perception of color as true, than why are you acknowledging the perception of shape, space, depth, time, matter, opacity, density, etc., etc. as true?

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by JWBear

Indeed. If what iSm said were true, then those paint color matching machines at the hardware stores wouldn't work.

In case anyone cares, the devices are called a spectrophotometer (they are used quite a bit in the printing industry).

If you want, I can bore you silly with discussions on color theory, additive vs. subtractive color, etc. Hey: I took an entire course on this, I have to impress somebody with my knowledge.

[alphabassettgrrl]

I liked that one of a Rosie, too. Something about the look on her face, holding that hammer (I think it was a hammer, wasn't it?) really struck me.