Two years ago i shared this website where you try and determine when a shade is either blue or green.
Posting it again because lemmy has grown quite a bit since then, maybe we have more people that havent tried it!
As cool as this is, it would somewhat depend on how accurate the display you’re looking at it on is. The same person might get different results on different displays.
No, its Turquoise.
Yeah the phrasing on this is odd. If turquoise (or cyan) is an even mix of blue and green, this is really a test to determine how closely you can identify when blue and green have a 50-50 mix.
IIRC if you trace the etymology of it you’d see it means something like “Turkish blue”.
“cyan”, the colour that is literally 50/50 blue and green, straight up just means “dark blue”
Things can differ a lot between languages. I can’t remember where I saw this (it might’ve been from “The Rest Is Science” - if I find it, I’ll post the link), but anyway, they were discussing how in some languages you might have a name for a colour that doesn’t even exist in other languages at all (something that happens with idioms).
Wouldn’t this very much depend how color accurate your screen is?
Color accuracy is not even close to consistent between screens and manufacturers.
Yes. Really only good to do as compared to someone else physically in room with you. Ambient lighting could make a difference too. Nonetheless curious how much variance people’s scores are across devices.
This is useless: different screens will show colours differently, so your blue will change from screen to screen. How can you compare results with people who have different screens?
It notes that in the about section; it’s not an accurate test. It’s more of a fun bar game where you pass the phone around then argue about who’s a blue purist.
Good to know that, I didn’t even visit the website because the concept seemed ridiculous. I wonder how many people read the about section, though.
You sound like my 15 year old with such strong opinions about a thing you didn’t even look at first.
To add to the other comment, also if you’re a web dev and care about device averages.
This is like showing me endless pictures of cows and asking me “is this a fish or a bird”? No. No it fucking isn’t.
Japanese people: these are both 青
My main criticisms is the “your boundary” doesn’t need to be a line, it could have a width. There should be a third choice for when the color seems evenly split.
I’m blue, da-ba-dee, da-ba-di
I draw the line at aquamarine, aqua means water and water is blue, marine relates to water and water is blue.
But the sea is green
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Yeah i got 80% in the green direction. Most of the mixed ones look more like blue to me than green
I am color blind and they all started to look the same after about the 3rd one.
Also colorblind. It looks like the overwhelming majority of people are wrong about blue!
Is this bad
That just means that you are correct
Your boundary is at hue 189, bluer than 98% of the population. For you, turquoise is green.
I was a graphic designer. I’m picky about colors. Color names are pretty much useless as demonstrated by this site. It’s why we use things like the Pantone matching system. Both to pick colors that don’t have names, and to have a standard to match printed output to.
Colors can be, and are, spec’ed by CMYK, RGB, and Hex values, but those values don’t guarantee the colors will match. Monitors and printing presses of various types all output color differently. Screen printing a shirt, is different from CMYK printing on an offset printer, and printing on a laser printer. They’ll all produce slightly different, or sometimes very different, results for the same values input.
For printing, a spot color is often used, that is, a specific color of ink, say Coca-Cola Red, that is mixed and added as a fifth color to the usual CMYK plates. That way the color is guaranteed to match. Fabric dyes are also custom mixed, of course.
A physical, printed book, like a Pantone swatch book, or even a color card produced by the company, is the only way to check how close the color is. And, there are acceptable ranges depending on the product, someone at, say, Coca-Cola, decides whether a color produced is close enough. They understand there are variances due to technology. “Close enough”, though, will always be very damn close for a larger company, but not necessarily perfect. They don’t fuck around with their branding.
Spot color is specific you the brand being printed, right?
From About on site:
Who made this?
I’m Patrick Mineault, a neuroscience and AI researcher. I made this as a side project using Claude 3.5 Sonnet. I obtained a PhD in visual neuroscience from McGill in 2014. You can read my blog here.
This was fun! Quite surprising for me. Wonder what this means?
Yeah I get similar results. Are we secretly colorblind ?
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I routinely disagree with people about whether things are pink/purple or blue/green.
I will tell myself “language is for communicating, this color is called pink by everybody else, I should remember that”, no use.
It’s a strange quirk of language and perception.
Most of the colours shown I wouldn’t really call blue or green tbh. But it’s interesting that there’s a threshold where something does become too green to be blue. I suspect this is also influenced by whatever screen people view this on
