Which SF novel was that? And by who? I'm a bit of an SF addict...quite like to read that. Jonathan. On 8/11/09 17:39, "David Dyer-Bennet" <dd-b@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > PhotoRoy6@xxxxxxx wrote: >> In a message dated 11/7/2009 11:46:36 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, >> dd-b@xxxxxxxx writes:Your first two sentences may be tautologically >> true (if you're asserting >> that "color" is a human construct), but it's also useless. >> >> >> Now I titled my email "Imaginary colors Speculation" What I am saying >> is that there is no colors that we don't see (as a group). That there >> is no new color you can get by other means. When bats view sound waves >> if they see this as color it is of our spectrum but I suspect there >> brain senses sound waves as some sort of pattern. >> There is no point in searching for other colors. > > > At least short of brain modification, surgically or through genetic > engineering. > > > Not that I'm volunteering to be a test subject!!!! > > > There was an interesting bit in a very fine SF novel not mostly about > sight (this was just a side detail), where it became relevant dealing > with an alien species that they used different pigments in their visual > receptors than we did. Hence blended colors, which is to say nearly all > reproduced images and even original paintings, looked different to them > than they did to us. Their artists were talking about trying to figure > out how to paint for a human audience. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------- Jonathan Turner Photographer e: pictures@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx t: 0113 217 1275 m:07796 470573 7 Scott Hall Walk, Leeds, LS7 3JQ http://www.jonathan-turner.com
