@@Kindyno hey same here! Just not as extreme as you seem. Most reds just look like the same red and most greens just look like the same green. Other than annoying my wife it really only negatively effects my life as an inability to see if ground beef is cooked thoroughly(everything just looks pink-grey always).
@@Holmaaron I realized that I am slightly colorblind to green (I can see different shades, but it fades to white or black faster than other colors) when I was trying to differentiate amphiboles from pyroxenes in a mineralogy class -- one is dark green, one is black, and I was the only one in the class who couldn't tell the samples apart.
When I look at the "color space" at 1:50, I only see "yellow" between 565 and 575. Meanwhile, I percieve everything from 500 to 485 as the exact same shade of "teal". I really wonder what everyone else sees.
This phenomenon also happens if you place a picture of Thor on your left and stare at it for about 20 seconds, then briefly shift your eyes to a photo of Aquaman on the right. You will then see the forbidden man science calls Kyle Hill.
this really made me appreciate our eyes. If color is just our brain’s way of distinguishing light wave lengths, and color as WE know it isn’t real, then that could mean that the entire universe would just look like nothing, but our eyes allow us to see what’s around us and everything that’s out there.
@@j.21 if you want to be fiercely pedantic you could call grayscale light levels rather than colors per se, though I feel that's more a debate of philosophy and linguistics than photons
He's been Goku, Link, Vampire Mommy, Bob Ross, all in the last year. I'm sure this isn't a full list either. Starting to think Kyle is a fan of cosplay.
I'm actually surprised Kyle didn't hear the sad news about the mantis shrimp. The reason they have so many different cone cells is because they can't mix colors together in their brains like we can. So they actually see less colors then us :c
@@awkwardsilence4427 RUclips has been weird for me posting links in the past, but I found what I think Hexed Decimals is referring to. A Google search of "mantis shrimp cone cells Hanne H. Thoen" came up with the 2014 research that seems to be covering the subject. Hanne H. Thoen is the researcher who wrote the paper. I found that in a Johns Hopkins Newsletter discussing the research after searching "mantis shrimp cone cells", then went looking for the research itself.
@@MrPr1nglz The problem I had before was it not letting other people see them for several hours after I posted them. (And if you posted those links in the replies to the comment above, it's done that to you too.)
@@Merennulli Ive had that issue myself on other comment threads where my comment would completely disappear despite refreshing and no links were attributed. Can't explain the reasoning but it is very inconvenient at times.
I remember after the sun went down one day, the horizon was very yellow, and the higher part of the sky was a deep blue. There was a gradient from yellow to blue, however there was NO green look in the sky. I was totally confused by it. Only saw this once in my life.
I actually have tetrachromacy, which means I actually have 4 types of cone cells, and I’m telling you now, I’ve talked to my friends about a bunch of colors they just can’t see^-^ (it’s weird to me for them not to be able to see them since I’ve seen them my whole life and I’m really curious how the world would look without them)
I know this comment is old, but I have a question for you as a writer. Culturally, it's common for colors to develop connotations that aren't necessarily described relative to other colors. Ex. reds are frequently seen as hot, passionate, lively, violent, etc. and associated with stuff like blood, roses, fire, so forth. If you look at specific shades might be able to associate them in more particulars and be like 'it reminds me of a smell, a taste, a place, a temperature, etc.' If you're game, would you be willing to maybe try describing some of the extra colors you see along those lines? No one else can really tell you you're wrong there and it could be cool getting a sense of what vibe they have in your opinion.
And now you know how to do those "Spot the Difference" games. Cross your eyes enough to overlap them. All the identical parts will lock into place, leaving the differences fighting for dominance... sticking out like a sore thumb.
This was the same for me too! After holding it for a few seconds the yellow "took over" and the blue completely disappeared. Did that happen to you as well? I'm curious to know if the yellow always becomes dominant, or will some people have the blue take over?
It's pretty blue, only a bit greenish. Mixing paints is not always so easy. You usually need a lot more yellow paint than blue paint if you want to mix your own green. The paint above it on the canvas is more green.
just curious, I’m a different kind of color blind, do trees appear blue to you or is it only certain shades of green? Also did you know that many early languages did not have a word for the color blue because it was not commonly seen in survival settings, it was just a shade of green to those people!!
@@himbodavidbowie Due to not having total colorblindness I can see the color green of trees grass etc, but because of the reduced number of shades most trees look more or less the same color. Apparently trees have many shades of green? Also it mostly affects the blue-green region which just appears as light blue to me. Hope that makes sense and answered your question. :)
I appreciate two things about the Bob Ross homage. 1 - You didn't wear a stupid knock-off afro. 2- You actually seem to have watched as much Bob Ross as I have and didn't lean on "happy little BLANK" the whole time.
@Benjamin Brand Salty much? Dang. Guy makes a video trying to explain impossible colors and keep it interesting for younger audiences... you know, get them into science. But Deadpool did the jokes better so he sucks. Gotcha.
Shoutout to whoever told him mixing colors was a great skit, and then gave him that size small Bob Ross shirt to wear. You’re the true artist. Got us watching 5 minutes of whatever he was talking about and not even a painted picture, like 5 splotches of green and brown. Art.
I'm a little disappointed the whole video wasn't a Bob Ross impression with so many layers it fails the 6-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon test. What we got was also good.
4:26 If you're trying to give me depression through existential crisis, then I'm afraid that years of watching Vsauce has prepared me for this a very long time ago.
We actually JUST found out that they have 12 cones because their brains can't translate transitional colors well. So their 12 cones have more specific wave lengths they are assigned to. So, for example, they have an orange cone instead of the red and yellow showing them the color orange. Love the reference though!
It's more that we have 3 axis of color that we see colors on (a full human vision color space is 3 dimensional) while mantis shrimp see color in 12 dimensions. So, try imaging a 12 dimensional object. That object is what would be used to represent the mantis shrimp's visible spectrum color space.
Already mentioned this elsewhere, so I'm gonna have to be a killjoy and post it here too: Turns out, according to Justin Marshall's study, that the Mantis Shrimp actually sees _less_ colours than we can. Our brains are wired with as many redundancies as possible to fall back on so we can cover all our bases. The Mantis Shrimp evolved to react to colours as quickly as possible, so it doesn't "mix" colours in its brain to interpret colour, and instead compensates by having a wide range of cones that are tuned to see specific wavelengths of light. If you ever used an art application and used the "posterise" filter, that's roughly how the Mantis Shrimp perceives colour. You're welcome. c:
@@johndwolynetz6495 opposite? No There actually 3 main colors of the band: red green & blue. So if 2 flashlights - red & green - would point one spot (works best in a dark room) you'd get a third color... Well, I tried the eyes trick on these squares - I couldn't quite see that new color 😉
@@mikowhy9608 it’s just a phase, the oppiste of red would combine with red to get white, cyan for example combines with red to get white. Look at red for a very long........ ohhhh fuck I’m an idiot, I’m talking off topic. Well that solves it
When I do the blueyellow test, it looks like looking through two sheets of acetate, obe yellow and one blue. The superblue color was BRIGHTER than the black around it. The "self luminating red" was clearly and undeniably a magenta to me. I love color theory!
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Unfortunately your brain has to do a bit more work than just crossing your eyes. It's like many optical illusions in that you have to 'think' about it right to see it the way you want to.
As my eyes naturally shifted I found that the red and green would kind of flow back and forth between red and green while also appearing as a fluidy orange at time in between states.
@@scopie49 Same. For one, I had to look BEYOND my phone to get it to work. Just crossing my eyes merely made a half-and-half. Looking past until the two met causes a yellow-green and orangish-red pulsation, morphing into a shade that's like an unripe apple.
I thought the yellow and blue formed to make and aquamarine or teal, the green and red formed an orange, the blue on black created more of a deep bluish violet, and yeah the “self-luminous red” looked pink to me and just couldn’t really see the last orange one
Fun fact, Pink is just really low saturation red. In other words, a red brighter than white by the brains interpretation could easily appear pink because pink is just a shade of red.
Kyle: "Just cross your eyes and merge the crosses to see an impossible color" Me: "BIG...SCREEN...TV...CAN'T...BACK...UP...ENOUGH...PINNED...AGAINST...WALLLLLLLAAAAAAARRRRRRRGH!!!!!111!!1!1111!!! ....oh wait...cell phone? Yeah that works. Gotta lie down now, got a bit of a headache..."
I don’t even know what the fuck I am supposed to do. If I look past the screen like he suggested I just see blue and yellow but on top of one another. The crosses also won’t align perfectly. I have littered no idea what I was supposed to do. The instructions were very unclear or I am just not capable enough to understand them.
@@Manie230 I put it on my phone and held it right up to my face and crossed my eyes this was the only way to get it to work. For me, it just faded back and forth between yellow and blue, same with red and green.
Only one I couldn’t manage to perceive was Hyperbolic orange…as for the others, they remind me of the after images briefly left on your eyelids after eyes being exposed to a bright light
About the late Bob Ross: he served in the air force and had a reputation for being a hard core disciplinarian. However by the time he left it had gotten to him how hard core he had been and he made a promise to himself that he would never raise his voice again.
@@hiimcrazyfordrwho That actually was the reaction that people who knew him in the military had upon meeting him again later in life. They would only believe it was really him when he showed them the missing bit of his index finger that he had from a saw accident in high school.
During the colour blending eye crossing exercise I could see blue yellow and green red. It's hard to describe but it was sort of like seeing a gradient constantly flowing and shifting. Occasionally it would try to correct to a stable secondary colour but then it would drop out of sync.
I experienced the exact same thing where there was a color gradient that would slowly sweep from left to right as if my brain was struggling to put them together, but just couldn’t do it
yes it is because your brain is emphasizing the white light behind it as an inversely colored after-image. your eyes do this all the time when staring at light.
Yes! When I stared at the left circle,eventually it would get a halo of the complimentary color, probably from my focus drifting a little bit outside the colored circle and into the white. It's just after-image
I was wondering. This was the only way I saw them, as glowy circles around the yellow or green circle. The blue kind of w irked in the black box but the red was only around the green.
I’m a web developer, so colors matter a lot to me. I remember learning once that I’d you take Chartreuse, a very very bright green, and INVERT the color, you get Magenta. So you don’t actually see Magenta, you see Not Green
@@graciliraptor3990 not red would be cyan, not blue is yellow. That's the reason why printers use yellow, magenta, cyan and black as substractive colors as they are the complimentary colors to blue, green and red respectively.
For centuries, even millennia, philosophers have made mistakes in conceptualizing the process of perception. This has led them to think that the senses can lie to them and thus opened up a whole world of bad epistemology. Bad epistemology has real bad consequences. If you want to see the solution to the major philosophical problems of perception, I recommend googling this essay: "Philosophy of Perception: Naïve Realism vs. Representationalism vs. Direct Transformative Process Realism".
Yeah, it's really not a "red" at all. It's magenta, because that's the chromatic opposite of green. Seems to me like the color is misnamed. It's self-luminous magenta. Amusingly, if I look up a template with all three of these together, and stare at the cyan circle meant for hyperbolic orange (since cyan is the chromatic opposite of red) but then switch to the white background rather than the orange one, I get what I actually would call self-luminous red.
I would think a darker cyan sort of color would give a better luminous red, since darker things to stare at yield brighter after images, which is why the Stygian one works well, the yellow is bright so the resulting blue is deep.
@@Havron That's cause magenta isn't technically a real color, its more of a made up color between red and blue, its not on the visible spectrum of light (not on the rainbow)
dont forget that they recently discovered that the shrimp cant actually merge the colors like we can so they have one per color, meaning they see less than us.
@@recoveringsoul755 Same with Rabbits, funny enough scientists believe that the size of rabbits was determined by the size of the smallest Hooved animals in the same region because they compete for resources. So if it weren't for Horses and Goats we would have Giant Rabbits
I might be nearsighted, but I have near perfect color vision. Can see the yellow/blue and red/green mixed but maintaining their individual color space perfectly. The stygian blue looks a bit like a high purple blue violet and the self-luminous red is like a pink-red blush color. Hyperbolic orange is pretty sweet, but I've definitely seen that color before, it's a slightly higher yellow orange to me.
I know that it wasn't part of the point of the video so maybe that's why it was glossed over, but paint with it's pigments works on a subtractive principle in terms of the light it reflects. So the reason that you get brown when you mix red and green paint is that the mixture is only reflecting what color(wavelength or wavelengths) both of them can reflect. Thus the more colors you add to the mixture the muddier it get's because amongst all the colors there isn't much light that can be reflected. Also, put it this way, if you had a paint that purely reflected only red, and a paint that only reflected blue and you mixed them together you'd get black. Mixing paint is not the same as combining different colors of light together. There's a book that I got when I was experimenting with watercolor called "Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green: How to Mix the Color You Really Want- Every Time" by Michael Wilcox. A good reference although I'm not sure you'd be able to make an entertaining video based on that premise.
Oh, that’s really interesting! Is this true of all types of paints (acrylic, watercolour, oil?), and is this why when we learn colour theory in school we talk about red, blue, and yellow, instead of red, blue, and green, like we do with light? I always wondered why there was a difference in how we ‘make’ colour. Now I also wonder if that’s true of the other ways we utilize pigments, like in fabric dyes. Sorry. I’m here rattling off a million questions that I can probably just go and Google lol. But your comment opened up a whole can of worms that I just wanted to share. I love when a comment can make me interested in learning more about something, so thanks for giving me all these questions to look into!!
@@Ryanookami well I know for sure that anytime you have pigment in a paint such as oil, acrylic, or watercolor it works like I've mentioned. I suspect that it is the same for inks and dyes but I've only researched how it works with pigment. Also not all pigments are equally powerful, some will only need av little to change a color and some will need alot.
Thanks for pointing this out because I thought the same thing too since I know a bit about color theory. The difference between pigment colors and light colors are two different things.
That's because it is. You are seeing the afterimage of the green, which is the magenta color. Same with how the "hyperbolic orange" likely works. The "brighter" spot was probably just the fully luminous orange that was originally there, but the fact the first circle was the complement of the orange square while the field was a grey color dampened the orange outside the circle, leaving the interior of the circle unscathed. Those were all afterimage trickery at its finest.
one time i wasted almost an entire college class trying to mix a color to match a purplish-magenta flower i was painting, before the teacher finally came by and was like "oh you have to buy that color, you cant make it with the basic colors everyone was instructed to buy for this course"
ok so I don't see yellowish blue... I see a square that changes color from bllue to yellow every time I blink, or every 2 seconds or so. Trippy. EDIT: THE REDDISH GREEN HAS BEEN REVEALED TO MEEEEEEEH
@Oops If you’re curious, that’s because yellow is actually a secondary color formed when the red and green wavelengths of light are combined or the blue wavelength of light is removed. In color addition (multiplying colors with light), the primary colors are red, green, and blue. In color subtraction (removing wavelengths of light through substances such as paint), the primary colors are magenta, cyan, and yellow (key is black for darkening the hue). Combining colors that are complete opposites can cause these impossible colors, I surmise.
I saw the combined squares sort of shift and warp betweeen yellow and blue like mixing liquids (same for them all), i assumed that was what 'yellowish blue' would be........
For the blue/yellow I was getting swirling colors, but sometimes, and it was hard to do, but I could see something that was not quite yellow but like it had some slight other color to it. The red/green was a VERY red slightly orange color. The self-luminous red looked more pink to me.
Just imagine: If we ever encounter an intelligent alien species, depending on how their eyes work, they might wonder what we're smoking when we show them photos on our RGB screens and tell them it's an accurate representation of what we see.
Without trying to bash the other commenters, but this seems like the only worthy one to read and think about. With how perception is such a weird and abstract construction of the underlying physical layer of nature, this goes far beyond the classic "what if aliens had 3 eyes, 5 arms and 3 legs" kind of theocrafting. Them growing up in a world with different light absorption, different gas structure or maybe even living in a denser liquid like water etc makes one think that not just a simple language translator is needed but even a whole perception translator, converting audio and light from one spectrum to another. Beyond that, not just the spectrum itself but the actual processed perception.
It's really interesting when you start thinking about how an alien creature might metabolize, sense, or make decisions based on an entirely different framework than the human baseline. The Formics of Ordon Scott Card's Ender-verse are a really good fictional example of this; being natural telepaths, the very concept of "communications equipment" is literally alien to them.
In the Green Lantern comics there is a character that was going to become a lantern for his sector of space. But his sector had so little light moving through it that his species evolved to not have any form of light perception. They were literally sightless. So when another lantern tried to explain things to him they found that he didn't understand what light was. He had absolutely no frame of reference. She ended up having to get him to think of emotional energy in relation to sound instead of light. So instead of the "green" light of willpower, it was the "f-sharp bell" sound of willpower.
That would be the same we wonder how their physiologies works. It's a 2 way street. In a way we all have our own interpretation of how RGB works. My colour of blue maybe different how it shows up in my brain, as long as we have that common reference (i.e. physical world) it will works out
Honestly, I'd be FASCINATED to know what they thought of our art. How would their eyes perceive our paints, for example? Would our paintings look very different to them?
I've often wondered whether an intelligent alien race might have visible light spectrum vision so different from ours that our video, billboards, posters and paintings, magazines, etc. might look really messed up to them. I think of Moira's crew on Farscape having endless arguments among themselves.
Maybe they'd be able to see our stripes! All humans have them, but in most people we can only observe them under UV light. They are called Blaschko's lines, and cats and dogs can see them, which is kinda cool
There is a woman in the UK that has an extra cone in her eyes and can see 99 million more colors than us. Doctors have been searching for 25 years to find someone with an extra cone she's the first they have found but believe that there are more out there. People with four cones are called tetrachromats.
Finally! This video was my time to shine! I suffer from lazy eye, but I have trained it to the degree that I can control my amount of cross-eye pretty accurately. So I could very precisely make the colors "mix"!
While the mantis shrimp has more cone types they actually see fewer colors than we do. Their brains don't combine colors like ours do so those 12 cones only see 12 colors. The thing that is really weird about them is they're the only thing we know of that sees radial polarized light.
@@PeterPan-dz7mu by hooking up apparatus to shrimp. And dissecting shrimp. Lots of shrimp. A quick search on Google for articles of the sort will tell you more details
The eye crossing test was pretty wild For split seconds at a time the colors blurred together into a "yellowy blue" and "greenish red" but only for fractions of a second at a time before it had a almost ripple effect where the colors would shift in and out of one another (I theorize that was my eyes vibrating from struggling to stay crossed 😂) the green-red was particularly Ripley, the yellow blue was pretty smooth aside from eye twitching The chimeric colors test was really cool too 😮
The styling blue ...weirdly enough I cud see it on the first cross itself...didnt need to glance...similarly for the self luminous red..tho tbh it was a v soft pink tht seemed v chemically..finally hyperbolic orange was a almost seemingly the colour of a very perfect orange tht I have yet to see...
1, saw when my eyes flickered around the edges of the yellow circle but not when I glanced right 2. Same except maybe a little bit of a flash and looked pinkish purple 3. Same and just looked a little more orange on the right. Also on my phone and took off my glasses on the second two. Wonder if there's something wrong with my eyes bc I saw so much around the edges of the boxes on the left. Anybody else with astigmatism have that happen?
@TheBoltMaster "Kid, Its a ZeFrank reference. Now, leave a like or go to hell." (This is a Malcolm in the Middle reference, not meaning to insult, what you say is actually interesting. If you want to see where the first reference comes from search "True Facts About The Mantis Shrimp")
The love child of Aquaman and Thor acting like Bob Ross teaching me about the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. This is like one of those pizza dreams you wake up from and you just keep to yourself.
I'm not colorblind but do have "lazy eye" so bad that they refuse to work. I can't see 3-D movies or read 3-D comics. So yeah it does feel like being rejected from admission to a club. edit- well I can't see any 3-D that uses those cheap red/blue film glasses to see. There was once, only once, that I was able to see 3-D. I went to a cinema that had that 'all around senses experience" (jets of air & chair shakes at scary moments... not really "ALL Senses) and used these big chunky goggles to see the 3-D. Not sure how they worked but they did work and for the first and only time in my 50 yrs was I able to see 3D. I was able to see just what I've been missing and continue to miss. It was like looking into the window of a exclusive tree clubhouse then the crates broke and can't use them again
9:10 That’s a neat effect, that I can seem to will into a number of shades of yellow and blue, and I can trick myself into seeing as green. But it almost wants to naturally be a greyish white color, beyond jumping back and forth between the constituent colors. EDIT : 9:25 And I’d call that solidly a fire orange.
Very much related to Kyle in this episode. I, too, occasionally have crippling bouts of existential despair brought on by casual realizations that require a specific injection to snap me out of.
Oh, yes. Thinking about it feels like walking through a pitch black tunnel that draws you toward it. I don't know what's in the end. It might be light in the end of the tunnel, or eternal darkness. It might be total insanity or complete understanding, maybe they are one and the same. I have never gone too far, I just tell myself to not think about it, and I go back the way I came. It's Monday tomorrow after all and I want some sleep. Wait, what was I on about? Right, colours
After-image colors are a fun subject. A long time ago, in operating rooms, the surgeons would be staring at red for so long (inside their patients bodies) and then when they looked up at the white walls, they would see green spots and it gave them eye strain and headaches. So someone had the idea to paint operating rooms a particular shade of green, which was the after-image color of blood red. they called it "eye-ease green" and it worked very well in that very specific environment for that very specific problem of eyestrain during surgery. The after-image green spots blended in with the paint color. But then later, designers and architects (who did not understand the logic behind the color) began to paint other institutions with that same sickly green. Prisons, schools, orphanages, offices, hospital rooms that were not used for surgery. Everything started getting this green paint job in the mistaken belief that it was a calming color or easier on eyes. It's not a pleasant or attractive color but it was ubiquitous, all because it was the complimentary color (opposite on the color wheel) of blood. The lesson is that something might be a good solution for a specific problem but that doesn't make it a benefit for all situations. They over-generalized it.
I tried searching for that color and all I get is a bunch of results for notebook paper. I even searched "Eye-Ease Green" in quotation marks and had the word color with it but still can't find what that shade of green you're talking about actually looks like.
Eye-ease green. The same logic is applied in russian technology, where instrument panels of ships, locomotives and aircraft cockpits are painted in this atrocious color.
@@kafkaesk3449 Okay, that I don't know what's wrong with that shade of green it's a very natural color you'll see in trees and bushes. Puke green or toad green on the other hand, yeah I don't like those shades of green. Can you give a search term that will lead to an actual example of this shade you're talking about? Eye-ease green isn't an actual color name I looked it up, only get results for notebooks even when I -notebook -paper I still somehow get results for it, adding the word "color" doesn't help. So it's not a color name in general, as I searched "color name" in with the other terms. Searching for spinach green however... I got mixed results, different shades some good some bad. Out of the first three results are what I called "toad green" or "puke green" before looking that up, but that's not the color of spinach, the dark leafy green vegetable, not this pale yellow-green, I am confused as to how spinach got to be associated with this color by ANYONE, even canned spinach has a more vibrant color (which if you're eating it from a can, you're eating spinach wrong and the taste is probably soured by the vinegar.) Then I get some more aesthetically pleasing natural looking leaf shades in between them, so that's not a conclusive result, but the puke or toad color keeps resurfacing! Why!? This is nothing close to the color of spinach! It's an ugly yellow green, while spinach is similar to a forest green. Why is spinach green a color that doesn't look anything like what it's named after? Anyway can you post the hexidecimal color code for the color you're referring to or link to something similar to it if that's okay? Or refer me to a google search that will give me a conclusive answer to what color you are talking about, with the website name included?
Mixing the colors by cross-eying had two little different results for me.. For the Yellowish-Blue, i kind of saw a gradient that shifted around, but nothing was actually like "one color". For Green and Red.. yeah, that worked.. and my brain hurts now
During the stygian blue exercise, while I was staring at the yellow circle, there was a bluish halo that appeared around it. The same thing happened with self-luminous red and hyperbolic orange. That is, I saw a red and an orange halo.
The reason that's happening is because you're seeing the after image of your saturated color cones. Your eyes are literally darting around the screen really fast in order to process as much information
@@pizzas4breakfast What you are saying is impossible......You cant imagine a color that doesn't exist because you can't even know if it does exist.....It's like saying that you are able to imagine a 4-dimensional cube...
Started reading discworld. He described magic as being “octarine”, a yellow-greenish-purple colour. Had to take a minute to think “what the shit is a yellowy purple”
I could (1.) barely see hyperbolic orange, (2.) self-luminous red looked blue to me and (3.) stygian blue was just as it is described (quite beautyful, actually 😅) The overlapping experiment was the most confusing, though: My brain couldn't decide on one color and flickered wildly between both options without ever mixing any of them. The flickering was faster, when the crosses overlapped more, but the colors never merged in at all 🤨
and that is precisely because some forms of colour blindness shift the spectra you can see. which is awesome as a quirk, but not so awesome as a part of the social interface.
Turns out my colorblindness is pretty weird, I see purple, neon pink, and black leaves in the fall. One of my mom's favorite things was pointing at trees and asking what color I saw it as.
For centuries, even millennia, philosophers have made mistakes in conceptualizing the process of perception. This has led them to think that the senses can lie to them and thus opened up a whole world of bad epistemology. Bad epistemology has real bad consequences. If you want to see the solution to the major philosophical problems of perception, I recommend googling this essay: "Philosophy of Perception: Naïve Realism vs. Representationalism vs. Direct Transformative Process Realism".
@@SwordOfApollo are you implying that the senses cannot be fooled? Im genuinely intrigued by this statement because i study psychology and theres a whole school of thought dedicated to the study on the limits of perception (gestalt)
@@vincentcabezas7147 That's right: They can't be fooled, because the senses don't make copies of objects or judgments. I definitely recommend reading the essay I pointed to.
anything you look at, the color you see is the color the object is reflecting. Therefore every color you see on an object is the exact color it is not..
3:47 Actually, this might be true to an extent for "redness" and "blueness" because they are the poles of the visible spectrum, but people definitely don't agree on what "greenness" is. Different societies will decide differently where green stops and blue begins for example.
This makes since for color blind people as well. They are opposites so maybe their brain portraise it to the same scale as green instead of red, or blue instead of yellow.
On the chimeric colors, I started seeing “rings” of the colors around the colored dots. It was freaky. Who else had Stygian Blue after images burned into their eyeballs afterwards?
I experienced the same thing, I had a problem seeing the hyperbolic orange, had to stare at the circle until it literally disappeared and blened in, then looks at the orange square 🟧 honestly was a AWESOME color. Orange is already one of my favorite colors and the more orange than orange was really cool, wish I could see it more often
If you *really* want something burnt into your eyes (or more technically, your brain), look up the McCollough Effect! Warning: Wikipedia says the effects can last for several months, I've had it last over a year at one point. Freaky but very cool stuff.
That was something that had no effect on me, and I don't know why. I have a very bad vision impairment, and I had strabismus when I was younger, so maybe they have a tangential relation to me not being able to see those colors.
Great video! Why can I only upvote once? If you want a tip on a topic for a video, then an educational explaining on the difference between mixing light colours vs. paint colours. (additive vs. subtractive). For example, every painter is using a colour wheel. But we've got three cones for colour, and 2^3 = 8. There's thus 8 hypothetical "primary colours" when mixing paint, but most people think you can do with fewer (like CMYK). Can you explain the COLOUR CUBE for people?
This reminds of “the Colour out of space” by H.P. Lovecraft! I tried to imagine what he meant by colours that don’t exist and this video puts a new meaning to this story!
Seeing the reddish green and yellowish blue for the first time was really bizarre, stygian blue though really just broke my brain for a bit, I can totally understand associating that with lovecraftian horror!
I always imagined the titular "color of outer space" to be visible as a simultaneous spectrum your brain can only process parts of at a time, and so it looks like a rainbow in flux. Were the color from outer space invisible, it'd just look like darkness and wouldn't be perceptible as a color at all, like the night sky.
“A man mixes paints on a palette and applies them to a stretched canvas. He’s an artist playing with forbidden colors … in the Twilight Zone.” Now read this again, but in Rod Serling’s voice.
First timer here. I WAS gonna talk smAck about how you are trying to be like Bob (Ross). Then, as I watched I realized You Are trying to be like Bob, sort of. Fun video. Thx Kyle. You dork. 😜
Most of it, if you go by vision alone. Radio waves, microwaves, millimeter waves, most infrared, most ultraviolet, x-rays and gamma rays are all invisible to us, but they all exist. We only perceive a tiny sliver of reality and we can't even get that part completely right.
@@zumba.c nah that's because either you're not putting yourself their enough, she doesn't care about you, or she cares so much she acts like she doesn't care
@@Tantalus010 Even the tiny sliver we see, hear, smell, taste and feel ... Almost all of it is thrown out. Our brains are much better at assuming what we should see and it is computationally very expensive to verify. So, we take in just enough to make a mostly valid assumption and our brain instantly builds the rest based on our knowledge of the object we assume we are seeing from our past memories.
8:58 Well, I guess I see what they mean, by being able to see the "forbidden" color. So first I see yellow with some blue bordering (as they don't perfectly overlap). Then my brain goes like, okay, let's merge them and first blue starts blending into yellow making the yellow parts just disappear (colors don't get mixed here). After some back and forth making yellow more or lesson visible my brain started to prefer yellow again and then seems to try something else out: The yellow color blended over to be blue and back again. Once again, there was no "mixture" of color - it was more a fading process. This took maybe 1 1/2 minutes. Then it seems that my brain gave up and started mixing them. Hard to describe the color, but definitely not on the scale of normal. Maybe best to be described as "you know you got a black car, but there's fog in the morning and your car looks like light grey" - but you kinda know it's black so it appears blackish to you, especially when you concentrate on it, you know? Here the same happening with the blue, it remains the same color tone but gets brighter more "warm", "sunny" and "vibrant". So the attributes of yellow are applied to the blue making it extremely bright. But in the end I don't think that's "color" but a mechanism of the brain to cope with different lighting conditions and equalize them: You can use a match in a cave and read a book or go outside in the brightest sunlight and read a book. In both cases you would describe them paper as creamy white and the letters as black ink. But in reality the color temperature is wastly different, a match has probably like 1800-2000 K while bright sunlight got up to 6500 K (if there's a very blue sky). Your eyes also cannot perceive so much color information from just a match, compared to the vast amount of available light if the sun is up - on cameras you would describe this as noise or signal to noise ratio. But processing of what's known of an object, of its environment, of the light source, the other objects perceived in a scene and their color appearance gets all mixed together to produce our perception here. A digital camera needs to mimik this by doing a white balance, to produce acceptable reproductions, as weirdly the raw input of a camera sensor is perceived differently, if not corrected, even if viewed under the same light conditions. All these processing our brain does leads to some stuff just beeing ignored, as there was no pressure to develop the ability to distinguish between them or maybe this ability sacrifices other abilities of processing vision? --- Same is happening with green and red, it appears as a green with some red "speckles" to me, like someone has sprayed a fine dust of red onto a green surface. But I cannot make out any details of this pattern.
The blue-yellow eyes crossed color was interesting. It kept changing rapidly. Almost like my brain couldn't decide what I was seeing, so it kept changing between the two and hoped for the best.
I got this, too, but if I stayed as still as I could for long enough, it stopped flipping back and forth and the two completely mixed into yellowish blue! Whaaaaa?!
Okay so that impossible color test with the red green and yellow green kinda blew my mind, I’d never seen those colors before and it was like looking at some kind of lovecraftian creature, perceiving and viewing something my mind was struggling to make sense of. Like I saw something I didn’t even know was possible and it kinda blew my mind. Seeing a color I physically shouldn’t be able to see is pretty jarring and confusing. Great episode and now I need to do a long sit and think...
After finally comprehending that the Thor was basically one of literature's first supervillains, very fitting for you to adopt the discount-Thor moniker. The way you didn't wash your brush in between mixing paints is straight villainous.
The fact he didn't use the "spatula" that was in his same hand is what caught my attention while he mixed colors. It shows he perceives more scientific data rather than color data, lol.
maybe its because im color blind, but when i did the eye crossing thing to "blend the colors" i got a weird view where the two shades would essentially compete. i didn't see red or green blended, i saw red and green alternating between each other
Thats what youre supposed to see, the point is to be able to see both the yellow and the blue occupying the same space at the same time, you can distinguish the two as if seperated even though they are in the same place. If the result was supposed to be blended it would just be green, but thats not the goal.
Oh, wait, is self-luminous red the same thing that happens when you're outside for so long that when you come inside, florescent lights appear a purplish?
all of those are just afterimage trickery. You aren't really seeing red unless you want to classify magenta (the complement of the green circle) as "red". Same reason why the "hyperbolic orange" really isn't that.. it's just that the orange outside the circle got dampened by the grey field from the first square via the afterimage mechanism. The "brighter" orange in the center is just the original orange not being dampened because the first circle was its complement, thus would not cause that area to become dampened. Well, as close as humanely possible as the technology can muster. There's probably _some_ dampening due to how the monitor produces those particular colors, but no where near as much as what happens outside the circle, so it appears much much brighter.
@@xevira I'd call magenta a form of red. Visible light is usually broken into reds, greens, and blues and I'd say it most closely falls into reds. It's like the antigreen.
@@Stormthorn67 It is not though. Because the receptors in you eye measure basically Red, Green, and Blue when you mix violet and red wavelengths your average would be a greenish color. The issue is that your eye has a green receptor. It is not being triggered at all. So, you have these wavelengths that average to a green and yet only the red and blue receptors are seeing anything. Your brain interprets that as Magenta. It literally makes it up because even though the wave lengths average to green it is, "NOT GREEN". So, people say magenta is, "Not Green".
when i tried to see the yellowish blue or reddish green, it was so cool seeing the center color constantly shifting from one to the other color fighting for dominance. after a while i did see something sort of like a mixture
Mixing yellow and blue gives a poopy greenish yellow. Nothing with red and green... I saw something with the dark blue but not much. Nothing with luminous red. But I definitely saw extremely bright orange! From this test i assume my red perception is broken 😂
Dangit - kyle (you are kyle with a little k until you learn what Ochre Yellow is) liked my comment so now I've got to go actually finish the freaking video. Well played sir.
For everyone talking about seeing the ‘halo’ of color around the circle in the first box, that happens because our eyes have a hard time staying exactly in one place. If your eyes move slightly away from the center X, you are getting the after-image overlaid on top of the actual circle. Something interesting I noticed. When doing the cross-eyes test, try doing it again after flipping your screen upside down. When I cross my eyes, the left box moved over to the right box. So if green is on the left, the green would come over and try to cover up the red. When I flipped the phone upside down, the opposite color was on top. Unless the pluses were EXACTLY lined up, I would see some of each color. If I got them to line up exactly one color would take over. But, after a couple tries, I was able to voluntarily switch which color I was seeing, while keeping the pluses aligned. And a couple times I think I was able to see both at once.
With the crosses, my eyes seem to constantly transition from one color to the next. One moment the middle square is blue, then the edges turn yellow and it spreads until it’s all yellow, then blue appears in the center and spreads out... it’s rather unnerving
I just saw green... as well as the yellow and blue blocks flashing rapidly, although that could be chocked up to the fact that my eyes vibrate when they cross
But... We do see yellowish blue and reddish green, just as green and brown. Saying we can't see these colours suggests that you mixing those paints together makes it completely invisible and as though the canvas is white. We see green and brown, but we just call them green and brown rather than reddish green and yellowish blue.
While it worked for the yellowish blue, I couldn't get the red-green to work, I only changed the colors of the plusses when I crossed my eyes, the plus in the red became a very light blue while the plus in the green became a very light pink
Maybe it’s just me but I feel like when I pause the video on my phone, it automatically dims the light on the screen which negates the effect of the x mark color switching effect. Even if I pause stare for 20 seconds and then look at the other one. Or I pause at the last second then look at the other x....
@@shiningpecan6978 You've misunderstood. The screenshot is for the image he's trying to see so he doesn't have to pause it, he can just view the screenshot rather than the video and it won't go dim.
Some people can't. Some simply can't control the muscles enough to cross their eyes. Some, like me have a medical issue that prevents that... like my eyes are the opposite of cross eye and one looks slightly sides while other is straight ahead.
@@kayagoksoy Focusing on a finger just means one eye goes further out. I have a "lazy eye", they don't line up right. Do you know the late actor Marty Feldman? (played Igor in Yong Frankenstein), google him and that's pretty much what my eyes look like.
Let’s just admit my impression was near perfect
I agree
Correct
I'm sorry I was too focused on that TIGHT blue shirt..... :O
Yeah your impression of Deadpool's impression of Bob Ross is perfect!👍🏻😅
This should have been an april fools vid but all bob ross part
As a colorblind person, most normal colors are forbidden colors for me, but the Stygian blue was neat c:
@Joseph Douek cover the other box while you stare at one. This helped me see the forbidden colors.
Red-green deuternopia here. realized how bad it was when I saw someone at a picnic eating food off the ground only to find out they had a red plate.
@@Kindyno hey same here! Just not as extreme as you seem. Most reds just look like the same red and most greens just look like the same green. Other than annoying my wife it really only negatively effects my life as an inability to see if ground beef is cooked thoroughly(everything just looks pink-grey always).
@@Holmaaron I realized that I am slightly colorblind to green (I can see different shades, but it fades to white or black faster than other colors) when I was trying to differentiate amphiboles from pyroxenes in a mineralogy class -- one is dark green, one is black, and I was the only one in the class who couldn't tell the samples apart.
When I look at the "color space" at 1:50, I only see "yellow" between 565 and 575.
Meanwhile, I percieve everything from 500 to 485 as the exact same shade of "teal".
I really wonder what everyone else sees.
This phenomenon also happens if you place a picture of Thor on your left and stare at it for about 20 seconds, then briefly shift your eyes to a photo of Aquaman on the right. You will then see the forbidden man science calls Kyle Hill.
😂😂😂😂 such an underrated comment.
lmaooo
He once described himself as "the Thor your mom say you have at home"
Thaqua mill
Like a perfect mix between thor and Bobby Duke arts
this really made me appreciate our eyes. If color is just our brain’s way of distinguishing light wave lengths, and color as WE know it isn’t real, then that could mean that the entire universe would just look like nothing, but our eyes allow us to see what’s around us and everything that’s out there.
Nothing? Or grayscale?
@@MoonieLovesAnime black/white/gray are still colors I think.
Imagine what we're missing
@@j.21 if you want to be fiercely pedantic you could call grayscale light levels rather than colors per se, though I feel that's more a debate of philosophy and linguistics than photons
@@sosukelele
They are colors. Color is essentially that, "light levels".
Didn't know how much I needed to see Science Thor as Bob Ross, yet here we are.
science thor XD
He's been Goku, Link, Vampire Mommy, Bob Ross, all in the last year. I'm sure this isn't a full list either. Starting to think Kyle is a fan of cosplay.
🔥💜 science thor
@@twinge2254 Bob Odinson?
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks of him as Science Thor.
I'm actually surprised Kyle didn't hear the sad news about the mantis shrimp. The reason they have so many different cone cells is because they can't mix colors together in their brains like we can. So they actually see less colors then us :c
Wait, really? Got a handy link at the ready so I can read about it by chance?
@@awkwardsilence4427 RUclips has been weird for me posting links in the past, but I found what I think Hexed Decimals is referring to. A Google search of "mantis shrimp cone cells Hanne H. Thoen" came up with the 2014 research that seems to be covering the subject.
Hanne H. Thoen is the researcher who wrote the paper. I found that in a Johns Hopkins Newsletter discussing the research after searching "mantis shrimp cone cells", then went looking for the research itself.
@@Merennulli Just posted a couple links myself. Community help for the win.
@@MrPr1nglz The problem I had before was it not letting other people see them for several hours after I posted them. (And if you posted those links in the replies to the comment above, it's done that to you too.)
@@Merennulli Ive had that issue myself on other comment threads where my comment would completely disappear despite refreshing and no links were attributed. Can't explain the reasoning but it is very inconvenient at times.
I remember after the sun went down one day, the horizon was very yellow, and the higher part of the sky was a deep blue. There was a gradient from yellow to blue, however there was NO green look in the sky. I was totally confused by it. Only saw this once in my life.
That was Sati. She left us an easter egg in the matrix but the architect issued her a takedown request and she's been scared to do it ever since.
@@odisclemons9700 NOOOOOO WASAHAHAHAHAHEUAYu ;;;((((( 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I think if you were to take a picture of it and sample the color you'd get gray
@@izuix5629 Can’t something like that break certain people’s phones if you set it as a wallpaper?
Its just gray. In any art program set a gradient from blue to yellow and sample the middle. It just looks weird because of the surrounding context.
I actually have tetrachromacy, which means I actually have 4 types of cone cells, and I’m telling you now, I’ve talked to my friends about a bunch of colors they just can’t see^-^ (it’s weird to me for them not to be able to see them since I’ve seen them my whole life and I’m really curious how the world would look without them)
Also, since color is relative to other color, I’ve never really been able to describe them well
Wow that sounds very interesting. Please tell, do you see the difference between the colors on displays/monitors and the colors of the real world?
Are you the next version of human??
I know this comment is old, but I have a question for you as a writer.
Culturally, it's common for colors to develop connotations that aren't necessarily described relative to other colors. Ex. reds are frequently seen as hot, passionate, lively, violent, etc. and associated with stuff like blood, roses, fire, so forth. If you look at specific shades might be able to associate them in more particulars and be like 'it reminds me of a smell, a taste, a place, a temperature, etc.'
If you're game, would you be willing to maybe try describing some of the extra colors you see along those lines? No one else can really tell you you're wrong there and it could be cool getting a sense of what vibe they have in your opinion.
wtf i didn't know that was possible for humans… i'm so jealous lol
When I crossed my eyes the colors didn't mix they melted around each other, like it was fighting to fill the square. I'd compare it to a lava lamp
And now you know how to do those "Spot the Difference" games. Cross your eyes enough to overlap them. All the identical parts will lock into place, leaving the differences fighting for dominance... sticking out like a sore thumb.
This was the same for me too! After holding it for a few seconds the yellow "took over" and the blue completely disappeared. Did that happen to you as well?
I'm curious to know if the yellow always becomes dominant, or will some people have the blue take over?
@@MrLordZenki they fought and my blue took over, but then they merged into the yellow blue they talked about. Weird!
i saw nothing no matter how hard i tried, lucky
edit: after trying a bit harder i saw the self luminous red
@@PROPLAYEN make sure your brightness is all the way up and use a bit screen
"its not a true mixture of yellow and blue, its green!"
Me, color blind: "ah yes, other blue"
Don't worry, I just see blue too
It's pretty blue, only a bit greenish. Mixing paints is not always so easy. You usually need a lot more yellow paint than blue paint if you want to mix your own green. The paint above it on the canvas is more green.
just curious, I’m a different kind of color blind, do trees appear blue to you or is it only certain shades of green?
Also did you know that many early languages did not have a word for the color blue because it was not commonly seen in survival settings, it was just a shade of green to those people!!
@@himbodavidbowie Due to not having total colorblindness I can see the color green of trees grass etc, but because of the reduced number of shades most trees look more or less the same color. Apparently trees have many shades of green? Also it mostly affects the blue-green region which just appears as light blue to me. Hope that makes sense and answered your question. :)
Same man, blue - yellow color blindness here so it’s the shades of Blue to grayish
I appreciate two things about the Bob Ross homage. 1 - You didn't wear a stupid knock-off afro. 2- You actually seem to have watched as much Bob Ross as I have and didn't lean on "happy little BLANK" the whole time.
Bob Ross fans are an unforgiving bunch, who would have known?
@@fireaza Not really, just certain tropes are overdone. "you can easily overdo." 😂
@Benjamin Brand Salty much? Dang. Guy makes a video trying to explain impossible colors and keep it interesting for younger audiences... you know, get them into science. But Deadpool did the jokes better so he sucks. Gotcha.
@@differentbutsimilar7893 he ripped off the entire video though
Think you
Shoutout to whoever told him mixing colors was a great skit, and then gave him that size small Bob Ross shirt to wear. You’re the true artist. Got us watching 5 minutes of whatever he was talking about and not even a painted picture, like 5 splotches of green and brown. Art.
I like kyle's impression of Ryan Reynolds doing an impression of Wade wilson's deadpool persona doing an impression of Bob Ross
You, sir. Have my thumbs up and my gratitude. Perfect character colour gradient.
With a tight shirt, don’t forget the tight shirt.
I'm a little disappointed the whole video wasn't a Bob Ross impression with so many layers it fails the 6-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon test. What we got was also good.
Kyle doing an impression of Ryan Reynolds doing an impression of Wade Wilson doing an impression of Deadpool doing an impression of Bob Ross.
" Makes me want to grab my brain, and beat the devil out of it."
That got me good damn it.
ikr
4:26
If you're trying to give me depression through existential crisis, then I'm afraid that years of watching Vsauce has prepared me for this a very long time ago.
And kurzgesat (or however you spell it)
"Where is my son"
@@CephDigital kurtzgesagt
You should also try some Sciencephile The Ai and Exurb1a.
First Ghost in the Shell movie, boat scene, 12 years old me.
That Bob Ross segment was unironically actually really good asmr lol
I wouldn't mind seeing more of that from you!
I second that!
He needed to clean his brush.
That's what I thought, would love a whole video of it 😂
Haha why not just watch some JoP then.
At first I thought, wait is he a Bob Ross reincarnation 😅
"Try imaginagining a color you've never seen before. Now do that eight more times. That is how the mantis shrimp do. "
We actually JUST found out that they have 12 cones because their brains can't translate transitional colors well. So their 12 cones have more specific wave lengths they are assigned to. So, for example, they have an orange cone instead of the red and yellow showing them the color orange. Love the reference though!
I believe they can see rays that we can't see so they can see things like wavelengths from phones and satalites.
I get and enjoy that reference
It's more that we have 3 axis of color that we see colors on (a full human vision color space is 3 dimensional) while mantis shrimp see color in 12 dimensions. So, try imaging a 12 dimensional object. That object is what would be used to represent the mantis shrimp's visible spectrum color space.
@Zefrank
"Try to imagine a color you can't even imagine. Now do that nine more times. That is how a mantis shrimp do."
-Zefrank
Zefrank is best documentary narrator
A human of culture I see!
Already mentioned this elsewhere, so I'm gonna have to be a killjoy and post it here too:
Turns out, according to Justin Marshall's study, that the Mantis Shrimp actually sees _less_ colours than we can. Our brains are wired with as many redundancies as possible to fall back on so we can cover all our bases. The Mantis Shrimp evolved to react to colours as quickly as possible, so it doesn't "mix" colours in its brain to interpret colour, and instead compensates by having a wide range of cones that are tuned to see specific wavelengths of light. If you ever used an art application and used the "posterise" filter, that's roughly how the Mantis Shrimp perceives colour.
You're welcome. c:
But what about mantis shrimp bebes?
Humans have types of cone cells. Mantis Shrimp on the other hand have 2,000... actually I lied, it's only 12, but now that's a lot less impressive
"You can also do it with green and red". Crosses eyes annddd... "They look the same. Oh yeah, I'm red green colorblind".
the colors just switched side
@@johndwolynetz6495 opposite? No
There actually 3 main colors of the band: red green & blue. So if 2 flashlights - red & green - would point one spot (works best in a dark room) you'd get a third color...
Well, I tried the eyes trick on these squares - I couldn't quite see that new color 😉
@@mikowhy9608 it’s just a phase, the oppiste of red would combine with red to get white, cyan for example combines with red to get white. Look at red for a very long........ ohhhh fuck I’m an idiot, I’m talking off topic. Well that solves it
R.I.P.
i feel ya!! Im partly blind to green; can only see some shades of it. some greens to me look grey.
When I do the blueyellow test, it looks like looking through two sheets of acetate, obe yellow and one blue.
The superblue color was BRIGHTER than the black around it.
The "self luminating red" was clearly and undeniably a magenta to me.
I love color theory!
I actually wouldn’t mind a show where he talks like Bob Ross for the entire show. That man is someone you can actually look up to.
HELP MY!!! My muscles are too big! I am a big tall man and my muscles are even BIGGER! I use them to get views but they HURT so much!!! Because they are heavy. Do you have any advice, dear seph
@@AxxLAfriku who
So is Kyle.
@@AxxLAfriku Don't use synthol and they won't hurt like that.
It’s like a bob toss show but while he paints he talks science
Felt like the colors just alternated one on top of the other while I crossed my eyes
Try changing the angle of your phone slightly and look at the image as a whole rather than trying to focus on single points.
Unfortunately your brain has to do a bit more work than just crossing your eyes. It's like many optical illusions in that you have to 'think' about it right to see it the way you want to.
As my eyes naturally shifted I found that the red and green would kind of flow back and forth between red and green while also appearing as a fluidy orange at time in between states.
On the second one, I saw orange
@@scopie49 Same. For one, I had to look BEYOND my phone to get it to work. Just crossing my eyes merely made a half-and-half. Looking past until the two met causes a yellow-green and orangish-red pulsation, morphing into a shade that's like an unripe apple.
Tbh, the "bright red" on white background looked to me more like some shade of purple/pink
Same
I thought the yellow and blue formed to make and aquamarine or teal, the green and red formed an orange, the blue on black created more of a deep bluish violet, and yeah the “self-luminous red” looked pink to me and just couldn’t really see the last orange one
@@multiversetraveller3118 it looks orange to me weird
Fun fact, Pink is just really low saturation red. In other words, a red brighter than white by the brains interpretation could easily appear pink because pink is just a shade of red.
I just got blue, for some reason.
I SAW THEM!
Stygian Blue is gorgeous; self-luminous red looks kinda like a pale pink; hyperbolic orange is definitely orange, but orangier
Kyle: "Just cross your eyes and merge the crosses to see an impossible color"
Me: "BIG...SCREEN...TV...CAN'T...BACK...UP...ENOUGH...PINNED...AGAINST...WALLLLLLLAAAAAAARRRRRRRGH!!!!!111!!1!1111!!!
....oh wait...cell phone? Yeah that works. Gotta lie down now, got a bit of a headache..."
Instant eye strain: test failed
Thank you!
Yer Funny. Yes you are! _Yes you _*_are!_*
I don’t even know what the fuck I am supposed to do. If I look past the screen like he suggested I just see blue and yellow but on top of one another. The crosses also won’t align perfectly.
I have littered no idea what I was supposed to do. The instructions were very unclear or I am just not capable enough to understand them.
@@Manie230 I put it on my phone and held it right up to my face and crossed my eyes this was the only way to get it to work.
For me, it just faded back and forth between yellow and blue, same with red and green.
Stygian blue is my new favorite color.
Meanwhile self-luminous red just looked like pale neon pinkish-purple.
Yeah. I thought it was only me
For me it was like a bright white circle (brighter then the white before) and it was surrounded by a red glare that looked like the corona of the sun.
Only one I couldn’t manage to perceive was Hyperbolic orange…as for the others, they remind me of the after images briefly left on your eyelids after eyes being exposed to a bright light
@@ravenwraith1017 I couldn't see hyperbolic orange either, guess our eyes are just lesser
dude i just saw a bunch of purple
About the late Bob Ross: he served in the air force and had a reputation for being a hard core disciplinarian. However by the time he left it had gotten to him how hard core he had been and he made a promise to himself that he would never raise his voice again.
Can you imagine being one of the people under him and seeing the show? "That sure looks like him, but are you sure?"
They called him ballbuster Bob.
@@hiimcrazyfordrwho That actually was the reaction that people who knew him in the military had upon meeting him again later in life. They would only believe it was really him when he showed them the missing bit of his index finger that he had from a saw accident in high school.
@@carsonm7292 That's brilliant. So glad he turned over a new leaf like that
Bob Ross was a treasure to humanity.
During the colour blending eye crossing exercise I could see blue yellow and green red. It's hard to describe but it was sort of like seeing a gradient constantly flowing and shifting. Occasionally it would try to correct to a stable secondary colour but then it would drop out of sync.
yeah actually @YuoTvbe
I experienced the exact same thing where there was a color gradient that would slowly sweep from left to right as if my brain was struggling to put them together, but just couldn’t do it
I love how you can still see the chimera colors as a halo around the circle
yes it is because your brain is emphasizing the white light behind it as an inversely colored after-image. your eyes do this all the time when staring at light.
Yes! When I stared at the left circle,eventually it would get a halo of the complimentary color, probably from my focus drifting a little bit outside the colored circle and into the white. It's just after-image
I can see the halos more easily with my glasses off.
I was wondering. This was the only way I saw them, as glowy circles around the yellow or green circle. The blue kind of w irked in the black box but the red was only around the green.
@@bobsalamone9798 I got some kind of pink, for some reason.
I’m a web developer, so colors matter a lot to me. I remember learning once that I’d you take Chartreuse, a very very bright green, and INVERT the color, you get Magenta. So you don’t actually see Magenta, you see Not Green
"Not green" is a very beautiful color any way you look at it
What IS not green, is there not red and not blue? I'd love to see :"(
@@graciliraptor3990 i think maybe if you inverted red you would see blue etc?
@@graciliraptor3990 not red would be cyan, not blue is yellow. That's the reason why printers use yellow, magenta, cyan and black as substractive colors as they are the complimentary colors to blue, green and red respectively.
@@raxxor18 AAAH YES INDEED! THANK YOU
"how much of reality are we really missing?"
*existential crisis intensifies*
Read some Plato, calms your right down.
@@MrWhangdoodles but before you mellow down too hard still remember that reality is subjective... in the Twilight Zone.
For centuries, even millennia, philosophers have made mistakes in conceptualizing the process of perception. This has led them to think that the senses can lie to them and thus opened up a whole world of bad epistemology. Bad epistemology has real bad consequences. If you want to see the solution to the major philosophical problems of perception, I recommend googling this essay: "Philosophy of Perception: Naïve Realism vs. Representationalism vs. Direct Transformative Process Realism".
I'd like to see a similar video teaching people to see polarization. Once I learned, I notice it everywhere.
The self-luminous red registered to me as a glowing pink and the stygian blue looked really interesting like a slightly opaque violet
Yeah, it's really not a "red" at all. It's magenta, because that's the chromatic opposite of green. Seems to me like the color is misnamed. It's self-luminous magenta.
Amusingly, if I look up a template with all three of these together, and stare at the cyan circle meant for hyperbolic orange (since cyan is the chromatic opposite of red) but then switch to the white background rather than the orange one, I get what I actually would call self-luminous red.
I would think a darker cyan sort of color would give a better luminous red, since darker things to stare at yield brighter after images, which is why the Stygian one works well, the yellow is bright so the resulting blue is deep.
The same to me. The sytigian blue looked more like the color UV lights emit
Stygian blue looked to me as a black-blue weird shieet. That was weird as hell.
@@Havron That's cause magenta isn't technically a real color, its more of a made up color between red and blue, its not on the visible spectrum of light (not on the rainbow)
“Where’s my son” during his existential crisis, lol.
"WHERE'S MY BOIIII"
Hahaha had me rolling
Yeah, never go full Lovecraft
Loli hanekawa, you're a man of culture.
dont forget that they recently discovered that the shrimp cant actually merge the colors like we can so they have one per color, meaning they see less than us.
Shrimp's got the eyes but not the brains, stupid shrimp can't beat us!
Better explanation: They see more colors then us but we see more variety of the colors we see then they do
@@CcatVideogames we see more nuances
Horses don't have cones for red so they only see green and blue
@@recoveringsoul755 Same with Rabbits, funny enough scientists believe that the size of rabbits was determined by the size of the smallest Hooved animals in the same region because they compete for resources. So if it weren't for Horses and Goats we would have Giant Rabbits
I might be nearsighted, but I have near perfect color vision. Can see the yellow/blue and red/green mixed but maintaining their individual color space perfectly. The stygian blue looks a bit like a high purple blue violet and the self-luminous red is like a pink-red blush color. Hyperbolic orange is pretty sweet, but I've definitely seen that color before, it's a slightly higher yellow orange to me.
I can't get over how much your shirt is STRUGGLING to contain the science of impossible colors
It's a really good color though.
@@zerodadutch6285 oh definitely! An impossibly good color
I know that it wasn't part of the point of the video so maybe that's why it was glossed over, but paint with it's pigments works on a subtractive principle in terms of the light it reflects. So the reason that you get brown when you mix red and green paint is that the mixture is only reflecting what color(wavelength or wavelengths) both of them can reflect. Thus the more colors you add to the mixture the muddier it get's because amongst all the colors there isn't much light that can be reflected. Also, put it this way, if you had a paint that purely reflected only red, and a paint that only reflected blue and you mixed them together you'd get black. Mixing paint is not the same as combining different colors of light together. There's a book that I got when I was experimenting with watercolor called "Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green: How to Mix the Color You Really Want- Every Time" by Michael Wilcox. A good reference although I'm not sure you'd be able to make an entertaining video based on that premise.
That's actually really interesting, thank you for sharing!
Oh, that’s really interesting! Is this true of all types of paints (acrylic, watercolour, oil?), and is this why when we learn colour theory in school we talk about red, blue, and yellow, instead of red, blue, and green, like we do with light? I always wondered why there was a difference in how we ‘make’ colour. Now I also wonder if that’s true of the other ways we utilize pigments, like in fabric dyes.
Sorry. I’m here rattling off a million questions that I can probably just go and Google lol. But your comment opened up a whole can of worms that I just wanted to share. I love when a comment can make me interested in learning more about something, so thanks for giving me all these questions to look into!!
@@Ryanookami well I know for sure that anytime you have pigment in a paint such as oil, acrylic, or watercolor it works like I've mentioned. I suspect that it is the same for inks and dyes but I've only researched how it works with pigment. Also not all pigments are equally powerful, some will only need av little to change a color and some will need alot.
@@Ryanookami just google the difference between additive and subtractive color mixing
Thanks for pointing this out because I thought the same thing too since I know a bit about color theory. The difference between pigment colors and light colors are two different things.
The "self-luminous red" looked more like bright purple to me.
That's because it is. You are seeing the afterimage of the green, which is the magenta color. Same with how the "hyperbolic orange" likely works. The "brighter" spot was probably just the fully luminous orange that was originally there, but the fact the first circle was the complement of the orange square while the field was a grey color dampened the orange outside the circle, leaving the interior of the circle unscathed. Those were all afterimage trickery at its finest.
it didn't look like anything to me. all the other ones worked except for that one. am i broken lol
I got pink.
@@nickthelick me too, pale magenta pink
It looked like a pastel magenta to me
one time i wasted almost an entire college class trying to mix a color to match a purplish-magenta flower i was painting, before the teacher finally came by and was like "oh you have to buy that color, you cant make it with the basic colors everyone was instructed to buy for this course"
ok so I don't see yellowish blue... I see a square that changes color from bllue to yellow every time I blink, or every 2 seconds or so. Trippy.
EDIT: THE REDDISH GREEN HAS BEEN REVEALED TO MEEEEEEEH
I saw yellow and blue oscillating back and forth, but with red and green I actually did start to see yellow
@Oops If you’re curious, that’s because yellow is actually a secondary color formed when the red and green wavelengths of light are combined or the blue wavelength of light is removed. In color addition (multiplying colors with light), the primary colors are red, green, and blue. In color subtraction (removing wavelengths of light through substances such as paint), the primary colors are magenta, cyan, and yellow (key is black for darkening the hue). Combining colors that are complete opposites can cause these impossible colors, I surmise.
I saw the combined squares sort of shift and warp betweeen yellow and blue like mixing liquids (same for them all), i assumed that was what 'yellowish blue' would be........
Yeah, it doesn’t work for everyone. Only a couple people actually get it- most people just get a sort of oscillating yellow and blue.
For the blue/yellow I was getting swirling colors, but sometimes, and it was hard to do, but I could see something that was not quite yellow but like it had some slight other color to it. The red/green was a VERY red slightly orange color. The self-luminous red looked more pink to me.
Just imagine: If we ever encounter an intelligent alien species, depending on how their eyes work, they might wonder what we're smoking when we show them photos on our RGB screens and tell them it's an accurate representation of what we see.
Without trying to bash the other commenters, but this seems like the only worthy one to read and think about.
With how perception is such a weird and abstract construction of the underlying physical layer of nature, this goes far beyond the classic "what if aliens had 3 eyes, 5 arms and 3 legs" kind of theocrafting.
Them growing up in a world with different light absorption, different gas structure or maybe even living in a denser liquid like water etc makes one think that not just a simple language translator is needed but even a whole perception translator, converting audio and light from one spectrum to another. Beyond that, not just the spectrum itself but the actual processed perception.
It's really interesting when you start thinking about how an alien creature might metabolize, sense, or make decisions based on an entirely different framework than the human baseline.
The Formics of Ordon Scott Card's Ender-verse are a really good fictional example of this; being natural telepaths, the very concept of "communications equipment" is literally alien to them.
In the Green Lantern comics there is a character that was going to become a lantern for his sector of space. But his sector had so little light moving through it that his species evolved to not have any form of light perception. They were literally sightless. So when another lantern tried to explain things to him they found that he didn't understand what light was. He had absolutely no frame of reference. She ended up having to get him to think of emotional energy in relation to sound instead of light. So instead of the "green" light of willpower, it was the "f-sharp bell" sound of willpower.
That would be the same we wonder how their physiologies works. It's a 2 way street. In a way we all have our own interpretation of how RGB works. My colour of blue maybe different how it shows up in my brain, as long as we have that common reference (i.e. physical world) it will works out
Honestly, I'd be FASCINATED to know what they thought of our art. How would their eyes perceive our paints, for example? Would our paintings look very different to them?
I've often wondered whether an intelligent alien race might have visible light spectrum vision so different from ours that our video, billboards, posters and paintings, magazines, etc. might look really messed up to them. I think of Moira's crew on Farscape having endless arguments among themselves.
Maybe they'd be able to see our stripes! All humans have them, but in most people we can only observe them under UV light. They are called Blaschko's lines, and cats and dogs can see them, which is kinda cool
There is a woman in the UK that has an extra cone in her eyes and can see 99 million more colors than us. Doctors have been searching for 25 years to find someone with an extra cone she's the first they have found but believe that there are more out there. People with four cones are called tetrachromats.
Maybe that's another solution to the Fermi Paradox. Maybe it's hard for totally alien species to find other species with similar values?
This is pretty much John Carpenter's They Live in one sentence
why is there always some bullshit alien comment on every video lol
Finally! This video was my time to shine! I suffer from lazy eye, but I have trained it to the degree that I can control my amount of cross-eye pretty accurately. So I could very precisely make the colors "mix"!
The Bob Ross segment was surprisingly soothing and I would love like a whole show
I suggest you watch Bob Ross’ show then!
I want a half hour of Kyle talking like Bob Ross but it's all about science. The world needs a science nerd Bob Ross. "Happy little neurons."
While the mantis shrimp has more cone types they actually see fewer colors than we do. Their brains don't combine colors like ours do so those 12 cones only see 12 colors. The thing that is really weird about them is they're the only thing we know of that sees radial polarized light.
What does that mean? That they see radial polarized light.
@Joseph Douek how do we know that. Like I mean how did scientists discover that
Came to say this ! New science is always updating our knowledge !
How did people figure that out? I mean it's not as if you could ask a shrimp...
@@PeterPan-dz7mu by hooking up apparatus to shrimp. And dissecting shrimp. Lots of shrimp. A quick search on Google for articles of the sort will tell you more details
" I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays! And I want to - I want to smell dark matter!" - Brothel Cavil, BSG
synthesia man acid tripping through crossed wires... 😄
I want to be able to see a large chunk of the em frequencies from radio to gamma
It's in the ship!! It's in the frakkin' ship !!
I think about this quote very often
My thoughts exactly! I love that quote, it immediately came to mind.
The eye crossing test was pretty wild
For split seconds at a time the colors blurred together into a "yellowy blue" and "greenish red" but only for fractions of a second at a time before it had a almost ripple effect where the colors would shift in and out of one another (I theorize that was my eyes vibrating from struggling to stay crossed 😂) the green-red was particularly Ripley, the yellow blue was pretty smooth aside from eye twitching
The chimeric colors test was really cool too 😮
For the Imaginary Colors I saw:
1. Stygian Blue = Purple
2. Self Luminous Red = Pink
3. Hyperbolic Orange = Super Orange
I saw the Stygian Blue as a blue, but the Self Luminois Red was also more of a pink-magenta color.
The styling blue ...weirdly enough I cud see it on the first cross itself...didnt need to glance...similarly for the self luminous red..tho tbh it was a v soft pink tht seemed v chemically..finally hyperbolic orange was a almost seemingly the colour of a very perfect orange tht I have yet to see...
Stygian blue was like a super blue, and hyperbolic orange was a super satirated orange, but the self luminous red was like a pink/magenta
1. Stygian Blue = Purple
2. Self Luminous Red = Purple
3. Hyperbolic Orange = slightly oranger orange
1, saw when my eyes flickered around the edges of the yellow circle but not when I glanced right
2. Same except maybe a little bit of a flash and looked pinkish purple
3. Same and just looked a little more orange on the right.
Also on my phone and took off my glasses on the second two.
Wonder if there's something wrong with my eyes bc I saw so much around the edges of the boxes on the left. Anybody else with astigmatism have that happen?
"Imagine a color that you can't even imagine. Now do that nine more times. That, is how a mantris shrimp do"
Bruh u made me feel inferior to a fucking shrimp
Ze Frank fan here!
Copied ?
@TheBoltMaster "Kid, Its a ZeFrank reference. Now, leave a like or go to hell."
(This is a Malcolm in the Middle reference, not meaning to insult, what you say is actually interesting. If you want to see where the first reference comes from search "True Facts About The Mantis Shrimp")
I read it in his voice... it was glorious
Kyle realizes it's all an illusion and breaks through to the 6th dimension, becoming a cosmic being
It was funny lol
Just like Bob Ross
Wheres my son, wheres my boyyyyyy
I saw the impossible colors radiating behind the normal colors I was staring at. The switch didn’t produce anything at all.
The love child of Aquaman and Thor acting like Bob Ross teaching me about the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. This is like one of those pizza dreams you wake up from and you just keep to yourself.
This made me smile.
No, no, you make a point
"Pizza dreams you just keep for yourself" Podesta is that you?
lol i thought he look like thor a little
Watching this video while colorblind. Feels like being kick out of a club for people who were kicked out of a much bigger club.
I'm sorry to hear that.
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. Just because we can see colours properly, doesn’t mean it’s _that_ much more useful.
I'm not colorblind but do have "lazy eye" so bad that they refuse to work. I can't see 3-D movies or read 3-D comics. So yeah it does feel like being rejected from admission to a club.
edit- well I can't see any 3-D that uses those cheap red/blue film glasses to see. There was once, only once, that I was able to see 3-D. I went to a cinema that had that 'all around senses experience" (jets of air & chair shakes at scary moments... not really "ALL Senses) and used these big chunky goggles to see the 3-D. Not sure how they worked but they did work and for the first and only time in my 50 yrs was I able to see 3D. I was able to see just what I've been missing and continue to miss.
It was like looking into the window of a exclusive tree clubhouse then the crates broke and can't use them again
So did you know your profile picture is black and white? :o
😂😂😂 brutal
"This makes me wanna grab my brain and beat the devil out of it" this was the best thing ever spoken into the aether.
9:10 That’s a neat effect, that I can seem to will into a number of shades of yellow and blue, and I can trick myself into seeing as green. But it almost wants to naturally be a greyish white color, beyond jumping back and forth between the constituent colors.
EDIT : 9:25 And I’d call that solidly a fire orange.
“I just want to take my little brain and just beat the devil out of it.”
Same
I want to take my little brain and just beat the God and the Devil out of it just to be extra sure.
Very much related to Kyle in this episode. I, too, occasionally have crippling bouts of existential despair brought on by casual realizations that require a specific injection to snap me out of.
Oh, yes. Thinking about it feels like walking through a pitch black tunnel that draws you toward it. I don't know what's in the end. It might be light in the end of the tunnel, or eternal darkness. It might be total insanity or complete understanding, maybe they are one and the same. I have never gone too far, I just tell myself to not think about it, and I go back the way I came. It's Monday tomorrow after all and I want some sleep.
Wait, what was I on about? Right, colours
After-image colors are a fun subject. A long time ago, in operating rooms, the surgeons would be staring at red for so long (inside their patients bodies) and then when they looked up at the white walls, they would see green spots and it gave them eye strain and headaches. So someone had the idea to paint operating rooms a particular shade of green, which was the after-image color of blood red. they called it "eye-ease green" and it worked very well in that very specific environment for that very specific problem of eyestrain during surgery. The after-image green spots blended in with the paint color. But then later, designers and architects (who did not understand the logic behind the color) began to paint other institutions with that same sickly green. Prisons, schools, orphanages, offices, hospital rooms that were not used for surgery. Everything started getting this green paint job in the mistaken belief that it was a calming color or easier on eyes. It's not a pleasant or attractive color but it was ubiquitous, all because it was the complimentary color (opposite on the color wheel) of blood. The lesson is that something might be a good solution for a specific problem but that doesn't make it a benefit for all situations. They over-generalized it.
I tried searching for that color and all I get is a bunch of results for notebook paper. I even searched "Eye-Ease Green" in quotation marks and had the word color with it but still can't find what that shade of green you're talking about actually looks like.
@@BlueAmpharos it's spinach green
@@kafkaesk3449 spinach green is way too dark. It's more of an off-putting mint
Eye-ease green. The same logic is applied in russian technology, where instrument panels of ships, locomotives and aircraft cockpits are painted in this atrocious color.
@@kafkaesk3449 Okay, that I don't know what's wrong with that shade of green it's a very natural color you'll see in trees and bushes. Puke green or toad green on the other hand, yeah I don't like those shades of green.
Can you give a search term that will lead to an actual example of this shade you're talking about? Eye-ease green isn't an actual color name I looked it up, only get results for notebooks even when I -notebook -paper I still somehow get results for it, adding the word "color" doesn't help. So it's not a color name in general, as I searched "color name" in with the other terms.
Searching for spinach green however... I got mixed results, different shades some good some bad. Out of the first three results are what I called "toad green" or "puke green" before looking that up, but that's not the color of spinach, the dark leafy green vegetable, not this pale yellow-green, I am confused as to how spinach got to be associated with this color by ANYONE, even canned spinach has a more vibrant color (which if you're eating it from a can, you're eating spinach wrong and the taste is probably soured by the vinegar.)
Then I get some more aesthetically pleasing natural looking leaf shades in between them, so that's not a conclusive result, but the puke or toad color keeps resurfacing! Why!? This is nothing close to the color of spinach! It's an ugly yellow green, while spinach is similar to a forest green. Why is spinach green a color that doesn't look anything like what it's named after?
Anyway can you post the hexidecimal color code for the color you're referring to or link to something similar to it if that's okay? Or refer me to a google search that will give me a conclusive answer to what color you are talking about, with the website name included?
Mixing the colors by cross-eying had two little different results for me.. For the Yellowish-Blue, i kind of saw a gradient that shifted around, but nothing was actually like "one color". For Green and Red.. yeah, that worked.. and my brain hurts now
During the stygian blue exercise, while I was staring at the yellow circle, there was a bluish halo that appeared around it. The same thing happened with self-luminous red and hyperbolic orange. That is, I saw a red and an orange halo.
The same thing happened to me
I saw somethin likeblueish-purple halo and no red
Probably very small shifts in our head/screen position, leading to the effect starting prematurely
Yes
The reason that's happening is because you're seeing the after image of your saturated color cones. Your eyes are literally darting around the screen really fast in order to process as much information
I remember asking my friends in elementary to imagine a color that doesn’t exist and seeing their reactions were to funny to me
I imagined a color thay doesn't exist but I couldn't think of a name for it
@@pizzas4breakfast What you are saying is impossible......You cant imagine a color that doesn't exist because you can't even know if it does exist.....It's like saying that you are able to imagine a 4-dimensional cube...
@@death2Chamelion but I CAN imagine a 4-dimensional cube. Nobody ever said that it had to be accurate.
@@toropazzoide .....nice trolling dude
@@death2Chamelion you don't have to have seen something to be able to imagine/picture it.
Started reading discworld. He described magic as being “octarine”, a yellow-greenish-purple colour. Had to take a minute to think “what the shit is a yellowy purple”
Color shifting paint
yellowgreepurple
Octarine, it's a magical colour.
@@markfoster1520 yegreeple
I-is it bad that I can actually imagine it
I could (1.) barely see hyperbolic orange, (2.) self-luminous red looked blue to me and (3.) stygian blue was just as it is described (quite beautyful, actually 😅)
The overlapping experiment was the most confusing, though: My brain couldn't decide on one color and flickered wildly between both options without ever mixing any of them. The flickering was faster, when the crosses overlapped more, but the colors never merged in at all 🤨
Greenish red is totally a thing when you are color blind. It's literally how I have to describe autumn foliage.
That's honestly to he perfect way to describe it to a non colour blind person, I'll have to use that
and that is precisely because some forms of colour blindness shift the spectra you can see. which is awesome as a quirk, but not so awesome as a part of the social interface.
Turns out my colorblindness is pretty weird, I see purple, neon pink, and black leaves in the fall. One of my mom's favorite things was pointing at trees and asking what color I saw it as.
orange is greenish red
Today's moment of existential dread was brought to you by the color magenta!
With all this existential crisis you're going through, it would be fun to see an episode where you explore epistemology.
For centuries, even millennia, philosophers have made mistakes in conceptualizing the process of perception. This has led them to think that the senses can lie to them and thus opened up a whole world of bad epistemology. Bad epistemology has real bad consequences. If you want to see the solution to the major philosophical problems of perception, I recommend googling this essay: "Philosophy of Perception: Naïve Realism vs. Representationalism vs. Direct Transformative Process Realism".
I was hoping you were going to end that sentence with 'Ayahuasca'.
@@SwordOfApollo are you implying that the senses cannot be fooled? Im genuinely intrigued by this statement because i study psychology and theres a whole school of thought dedicated to the study on the limits of perception (gestalt)
@@vincentcabezas7147 That's right: They can't be fooled, because the senses don't make copies of objects or judgments. I definitely recommend reading the essay I pointed to.
anything you look at, the color you see is the color the object is reflecting.
Therefore every color you see on an object is the exact color it is not..
"The little test we are about to do will let some of you see what I said none of you can."
Me: " *I can see! I can **_FIGHT!_* "
The best fairly odd parents refrence
My eyes are being weird. Left eye sees the yellow as a true yellow. While the right one sees it with a greenish tint.
3:47
Actually, this might be true to an extent for "redness" and "blueness" because they are the poles of the visible spectrum, but people definitely don't agree on what "greenness" is. Different societies will decide differently where green stops and blue begins for example.
Japan: 👀
Or grey. My sister sees green where I see grey.
That’s more a linguistic thing than a biological one
This makes since for color blind people as well. They are opposites so maybe their brain portraise it to the same scale as green instead of red, or blue instead of yellow.
nah that is a linguistic phenomenon, not physical. it's the same reason brown is a color of its own in english, and not just "dark orange".
On the chimeric colors, I started seeing “rings” of the colors around the colored dots. It was freaky.
Who else had Stygian Blue after images burned into their eyeballs afterwards?
same i started seeing a ring of a different color lmao freaked me out
I experienced the same thing, I had a problem seeing the hyperbolic orange, had to stare at the circle until it literally disappeared and blened in, then looks at the orange square 🟧 honestly was a AWESOME color. Orange is already one of my favorite colors and the more orange than orange was really cool, wish I could see it more often
If you *really* want something burnt into your eyes (or more technically, your brain), look up the McCollough Effect!
Warning: Wikipedia says the effects can last for several months, I've had it last over a year at one point. Freaky but very cool stuff.
@@patsonical wtf haha
That was something that had no effect on me, and I don't know why. I have a very bad vision impairment, and I had strabismus when I was younger, so maybe they have a tangential relation to me not being able to see those colors.
Great video! Why can I only upvote once?
If you want a tip on a topic for a video, then an educational explaining on the difference between mixing light colours vs. paint colours. (additive vs. subtractive).
For example, every painter is using a colour wheel. But we've got three cones for colour, and 2^3 = 8. There's thus 8 hypothetical "primary colours" when mixing paint, but most people think you can do with fewer (like CMYK).
Can you explain the COLOUR CUBE for people?
This reminds of “the Colour out of space” by H.P. Lovecraft! I tried to imagine what he meant by colours that don’t exist and this video puts a new meaning to this story!
Seeing the reddish green and yellowish blue for the first time was really bizarre, stygian blue though really just broke my brain for a bit, I can totally understand associating that with lovecraftian horror!
I always imagined the titular "color of outer space" to be visible as a simultaneous spectrum your brain can only process parts of at a time, and so it looks like a rainbow in flux. Were the color from outer space invisible, it'd just look like darkness and wouldn't be perceptible as a color at all, like the night sky.
Mysterious colors unlike any seen on earth!
as it turns out, most colors can't actually be seen. go figure
purple
“A man mixes paints on a palette and applies them to a stretched canvas. He’s an artist playing with forbidden colors … in the Twilight Zone.”
Now read this again, but in Rod Serling’s voice.
nah I'll read it in the excited sports host voice
Ok, now who's Rod Serling?
FRAAAAAAAANKLIIIIIIIIN
I read this in Taliesin Jaffe voice
@@hellknightf1 Who's the person that always says those words? Context clues man, listen in school!
When your problem isn’t seeing the invisible colors but crossing your eyes consistently is 😭
I feel ya😭
Try watching on your phone and putting it really close to your face. Unfocus your eyes like you're seeing right through the phone :)
@@ferg2174 i did that, saw purple
I used the tip of my finger and moved away from my monitor, watching the crosses in my peripherals.
Try adjusting the distance from your eyes to the monitor. The larger the monitor, the more distance you need.
First timer here. I WAS gonna talk smAck about how you are trying to be like Bob (Ross). Then, as I watched I realized You Are trying to be like Bob, sort of. Fun video. Thx Kyle. You dork. 😜
"You can see everything you can see." Well, yes, yes I suppose that's true.
lmfao
Mhm yes this floor is made of floor
Or can you?
*Vsauce music plays*
*sad blind people noises*
People die when they are killed XD
"How much of reality are we missing?"
*YOU'RE FREAKING ME OUT*
Most of it, if you go by vision alone. Radio waves, microwaves, millimeter waves, most infrared, most ultraviolet, x-rays and gamma rays are all invisible to us, but they all exist. We only perceive a tiny sliver of reality and we can't even get that part completely right.
@@Tantalus010 so it's like how even though I'm invisible to my crush , I still exist? 🥺
@@zumba.c nah that's because either you're not putting yourself their enough, she doesn't care about you, or she cares so much she acts like she doesn't care
@@Tantalus010 Even the tiny sliver we see, hear, smell, taste and feel ... Almost all of it is thrown out. Our brains are much better at assuming what we should see and it is computationally very expensive to verify. So, we take in just enough to make a mostly valid assumption and our brain instantly builds the rest based on our knowledge of the object we assume we are seeing from our past memories.
*Continues to stare at a random flower in bright sunlight*
Dude! This is reality
"If you look closely you can literally see everything that you can see"
I can't stop laughing at this
8:58 Well, I guess I see what they mean, by being able to see the "forbidden" color.
So first I see yellow with some blue bordering (as they don't perfectly overlap).
Then my brain goes like, okay, let's merge them and first blue starts blending into yellow making the yellow parts just disappear (colors don't get mixed here).
After some back and forth making yellow more or lesson visible my brain started to prefer yellow again and then seems to try something else out:
The yellow color blended over to be blue and back again. Once again, there was no "mixture" of color - it was more a fading process.
This took maybe 1 1/2 minutes.
Then it seems that my brain gave up and started mixing them. Hard to describe the color, but definitely not on the scale of normal. Maybe best to be described as "you know you got a black car, but there's fog in the morning and your car looks like light grey" - but you kinda know it's black so it appears blackish to you, especially when you concentrate on it, you know?
Here the same happening with the blue, it remains the same color tone but gets brighter more "warm", "sunny" and "vibrant". So the attributes of yellow are applied to the blue making it extremely bright.
But in the end I don't think that's "color" but a mechanism of the brain to cope with different lighting conditions and equalize them:
You can use a match in a cave and read a book or go outside in the brightest sunlight and read a book. In both cases you would describe them paper as creamy white and the letters as black ink.
But in reality the color temperature is wastly different, a match has probably like 1800-2000 K while bright sunlight got up to 6500 K (if there's a very blue sky).
Your eyes also cannot perceive so much color information from just a match, compared to the vast amount of available light if the sun is up - on cameras you would describe this as noise or signal to noise ratio.
But processing of what's known of an object, of its environment, of the light source, the other objects perceived in a scene and their color appearance gets all mixed together to produce our perception here. A digital camera needs to mimik this by doing a white balance, to produce acceptable reproductions, as weirdly the raw input of a camera sensor is perceived differently, if not corrected, even if viewed under the same light conditions.
All these processing our brain does leads to some stuff just beeing ignored, as there was no pressure to develop the ability to distinguish between them or maybe this ability sacrifices other abilities of processing vision?
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Same is happening with green and red, it appears as a green with some red "speckles" to me, like someone has sprayed a fine dust of red onto a green surface. But I cannot make out any details of this pattern.
The blue-yellow eyes crossed color was interesting. It kept changing rapidly. Almost like my brain couldn't decide what I was seeing, so it kept changing between the two and hoped for the best.
I got a flicker between the two colours too, as opposed to a mixture.
I saw orange kinda color...
I got this, too, but if I stayed as still as I could for long enough, it stopped flipping back and forth and the two completely mixed into yellowish blue! Whaaaaa?!
Okay so that impossible color test with the red green and yellow green kinda blew my mind, I’d never seen those colors before and it was like looking at some kind of lovecraftian creature, perceiving and viewing something my mind was struggling to make sense of. Like I saw something I didn’t even know was possible and it kinda blew my mind. Seeing a color I physically shouldn’t be able to see is pretty jarring and confusing. Great episode and now I need to do a long sit and think...
It was weird. I could only see it for a moment, personally and only on the red/green one.
It was some bizarro pink.
After finally comprehending that the Thor was basically one of literature's first supervillains, very fitting for you to adopt the discount-Thor moniker. The way you didn't wash your brush in between mixing paints is straight villainous.
The fact he didn't use the "spatula" that was in his same hand is what caught my attention while he mixed colors. It shows he perceives more scientific data rather than color data, lol.
How was Thor a villain? He was just an asshole.
@@walterclements3164 Some people think playing God of War makes you an expert on Mythology.
@@mechanomics2649 Oh my god I think that's actually what happened here. This is so embarrassing for OP.
maybe its because im color blind, but when i did the eye crossing thing to "blend the colors" i got a weird view where the two shades would essentially compete. i didn't see red or green blended, i saw red and green alternating between each other
Thats what youre supposed to see, the point is to be able to see both the yellow and the blue occupying the same space at the same time, you can distinguish the two as if seperated even though they are in the same place. If the result was supposed to be blended it would just be green, but thats not the goal.
Funnily enough, RUclips's autogenerated captions won't include the "I'm a demon" part of Kyle's existential crisis. Coincidence?
I THINK NOT
@@Zombie_Chow Burnie, calm down.
@@redcapo011 don't "Burnie" me
ТЫ ГОВОРИШЬ Я ДЕМОН? ТАК И ЕСТЬ!
Oh, wait, is self-luminous red the same thing that happens when you're outside for so long that when you come inside, florescent lights appear a purplish?
all of those are just afterimage trickery. You aren't really seeing red unless you want to classify magenta (the complement of the green circle) as "red". Same reason why the "hyperbolic orange" really isn't that.. it's just that the orange outside the circle got dampened by the grey field from the first square via the afterimage mechanism. The "brighter" orange in the center is just the original orange not being dampened because the first circle was its complement, thus would not cause that area to become dampened. Well, as close as humanely possible as the technology can muster. There's probably _some_ dampening due to how the monitor produces those particular colors, but no where near as much as what happens outside the circle, so it appears much much brighter.
@@xevira I'd call magenta a form of red. Visible light is usually broken into reds, greens, and blues and I'd say it most closely falls into reds. It's like the antigreen.
Florescent lights ARE bluish... UV..that is transformed to white by the bulbs phosphor...
@@Stormthorn67 It is not though. Because the receptors in you eye measure basically Red, Green, and Blue when you mix violet and red wavelengths your average would be a greenish color. The issue is that your eye has a green receptor. It is not being triggered at all. So, you have these wavelengths that average to a green and yet only the red and blue receptors are seeing anything. Your brain interprets that as Magenta. It literally makes it up because even though the wave lengths average to green it is, "NOT GREEN". So, people say magenta is, "Not Green".
I think so.
when i tried to see the yellowish blue or reddish green, it was so cool seeing the center color constantly shifting from one to the other color fighting for dominance. after a while i did see something sort of like a mixture
It hurt too much for me to make it that far.
I was able to see 3 boxes, the middle one, almost a perfect gradient of the 2 colors. Fun stuff, messing with the brain.
Same color fight lol then some neon color I don't know
Mixing yellow and blue gives a poopy greenish yellow. Nothing with red and green...
I saw something with the dark blue but not much. Nothing with luminous red. But I definitely saw extremely bright orange!
From this test i assume my red perception is broken 😂
As someone with a fine arts degree - I have never wanted to shake someone with a man-bun more, and trust me - THAT'S SAYING SOMETHING
Dangit - kyle (you are kyle with a little k until you learn what Ochre Yellow is) liked my comment so now I've got to go actually finish the freaking video. Well played sir.
...huh?
is "shake" a euphemism? 🤔🎨
@@troywalkertheprogressivean8433 Nah, I think she wants to pick him up and throw him around like a shake weight
Katt do you also dislike women who wear buns in their hair?
For everyone talking about seeing the ‘halo’ of color around the circle in the first box, that happens because our eyes have a hard time staying exactly in one place. If your eyes move slightly away from the center X, you are getting the after-image overlaid on top of the actual circle.
Something interesting I noticed. When doing the cross-eyes test, try doing it again after flipping your screen upside down. When I cross my eyes, the left box moved over to the right box. So if green is on the left, the green would come over and try to cover up the red. When I flipped the phone upside down, the opposite color was on top. Unless the pluses were EXACTLY lined up, I would see some of each color. If I got them to line up exactly one color would take over. But, after a couple tries, I was able to voluntarily switch which color I was seeing, while keeping the pluses aligned. And a couple times I think I was able to see both at once.
With the crosses, my eyes seem to constantly transition from one color to the next. One moment the middle square is blue, then the edges turn yellow and it spreads until it’s all yellow, then blue appears in the center and spreads out... it’s rather unnerving
Exactly what I saw! It was very 60s psychedelic
I just saw green... as well as the yellow and blue blocks flashing rapidly, although that could be chocked up to the fact that my eyes vibrate when they cross
I don't even know how to cross my eyes on command
same! It's like they were fighting for brain space
@@ultrathagawd guess you never read the magic eye books back in the day? :D
But... We do see yellowish blue and reddish green, just as green and brown. Saying we can't see these colours suggests that you mixing those paints together makes it completely invisible and as though the canvas is white. We see green and brown, but we just call them green and brown rather than reddish green and yellowish blue.
Cross test - it's like my eyes were battling to "see" the blue or the yellow.
It was like a weird tie-dye thing
Love the impression of bob ross although the fact that you didn’t wash your brush between mixtures made me more upset than I had any reason to
He needed to give them a good ol' whack there too.
Wheres that damn odorless paint thinner!!
Just found your channel and it will now consume my life. 😩😂 BRB binge watching!
While it worked for the yellowish blue, I couldn't get the red-green to work, I only changed the colors of the plusses when I crossed my eyes, the plus in the red became a very light blue while the plus in the green became a very light pink
Chimeric colors are the reason that whole dress thing happened a while ago right. It was just what light your eye picked up first
Maybe it’s just me but I feel like when I pause the video on my phone, it automatically dims the light on the screen which negates the effect of the x mark color switching effect. Even if I pause stare for 20 seconds and then look at the other one. Or I pause at the last second then look at the other x....
after pausing, tap the screen off to the side not touching the play, forward, or any other buttons
Can you take a screenshot?
@@thirdeyenz how would a screenshot show you the dimness of the screen lol
@@shiningpecan6978 It's for the OP to stare at without dimming, not for showing Ian :P
@@shiningpecan6978 You've misunderstood. The screenshot is for the image he's trying to see so he doesn't have to pause it, he can just view the screenshot rather than the video and it won't go dim.
After reading the comments for a while, I've learned that many people apparently don't know how to cross their eyes.
If they’re struggling, my method is to hold the phone screen near me and then look to a point just over the top.
Some people can't. Some simply can't control the muscles enough to cross their eyes. Some, like me have a medical issue that prevents that... like my eyes are the opposite of cross eye and one looks slightly sides while other is straight ahead.
I’m gonna sound like a knob saying this but technically the video is asking them to uncross their eyes, or straighten them.
@@Katzztar Just try to focus on something near you as if you have your finger right in front of your nose.
@@kayagoksoy Focusing on a finger just means one eye goes further out. I have a "lazy eye", they don't line up right. Do you know the late actor Marty Feldman? (played Igor in Yong Frankenstein), google him and that's pretty much what my eyes look like.
Did anyone else just see a shade of pink instead of "self-luminous red"
Yes, I saw pink.