What are IMPOSSIBLE COLORS?
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- Опубликовано: 9 июн 2024
- Are there colors that you can't see? Can you imagine new colors? You can trick your brain into seeing the impossible...
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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".
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.
z fighting you mean
yeah actually @
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
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
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.
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.
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 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'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 SAW THEM!
Stygian Blue is gorgeous; self-luminous red looks kinda like a pale pink; hyperbolic orange is definitely orange, but orangier
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!
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.
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.
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
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 😅
"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.
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
I'd like to see a similar video teaching people to see polarization. Once I learned, I notice it everywhere.
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 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
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.
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 colours test freaked me out a bit, but for a completely different reason. When I stared at the circle long enough, the edges seemed to blur away and the colour merged into the white background. The once white box became the lightest version of the colour. A blue circle became an almost turquoise box, for example.
"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
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 😮
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
"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
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
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.
Thank you for explaining what those ghost images are that I've been experiencing all my life whenever i stare at something then switch to another background color.
"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
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.
When I did the cross eye test, I felt each eye trading being dominant. For the yellow-blue, I either saw yellow or blue and nothing in between. For the red-green, I might have caught a hint of a mix - for that one, I didn't sense so much of an attempt for each eye to be dominant.
I saw the impossible colors radiating behind the normal colors I was staring at. The switch didn’t produce anything at all.
" Makes me want to grab my brain, and beat the devil out of it."
That got me good damn it.
ikr
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
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.
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"
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.
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.
This is unironically the best impression of Bob Ross and The Joy Of Painting I have ever seen. This is amazing
SAP GREEN - WEED JOKE. Nice
You know I love my sap green
The green circle causing the red circle on the right worked fine, but the yellow circle trying to make the blue did nothing at all.
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
“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.
I tried that test in the video, crossing one's eyes to see if colours blend, and what freaked me out was I saw the colours overlap each other from my right eye but my left eye just seemed to delete the other colour completely. Truly weird and interesting at the same time.
so basically colors within the color cone range are seen at their true frequency with your brain but colors between the cones need to use a variation of the cones and processing to understand the frequency of the color and make a visual interoperation that's actually a illusion because you're actually seeing levels of the frequency from blue and yellow/red from your cones with post processing to make that illusive color?
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.
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..
I would really love to see a more in depth video on how mantis shrimp see. They’re such amazing creatures for soooo many reasons & I don’t think enough people know about all their amazing abilities.
"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".
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)
IIRC there was a study published a little while ago demonstrating that mantis shrimp actually can't see more colours than us, just they use the different cones to reduce processing time by their brain because they don't have to combine red, blue, and green, so they can react much faster.
5:04 " Ok, that's enough of that demon talk.." I laughed out loud!
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
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."
5:03 to 8:23 is Kyle Hill ASMR I didn't know I needed but dang do I love it. Your impression of him is so great, and just as soothing and comfy! You'd totally crush an ASMR vid doin' that.
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
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.
" 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.
Wow, this took me back to college when I took a colors class! One of the assignments was they’d give us various color combinations and paint them on a grid to fade each color leading to pure black in the middle. Yellow is definitely easy to cancel out. But I forget which combo it was, but to achieve black was sooo hard!
I unironically would love to see full episode of you just painting with that expression.
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
"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
I have anastasmus which made the first test impossible for me. But weirdly enough the other tests that required staring at the one were automatic for me. That was freaking amazing.
Immediately after I finished watching this I’m going to watch Bob paint some mountains 🏔️
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 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
Well that's weird then. I saw the two colors just overlapping and idk how to explain it exactly except maybe glitching into each other. Part of the red was forward whereas part of the green was forward somewhere else.
The same thing happened with blue & yellow.
I wonder if it had something to do with my astigmatism? I had to remove my glasses in order to focus and cross my eyes.
Interesting to know this was an actual concept. I ran a concept like this in my Mage: the Ascension games, where the color of Paradox as a force is a Paradox Purple. It's like Vantablack, but it's the most purple wave, and now after watching this video, my technocracy focused players can find out that it's the only purple that gives off a single frequency wavelength.
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 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.
I couldn’t get self-luminous red to show, but hyperbolic orange did a cool thing where it flashed up and I could see it for a second or two. That was incredible
The self illuminating red was pretty easy and cool
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?
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
Did anyone else just see a shade of pink instead of "self-luminous red"
Yes, I saw pink.
For the hyperbolic orange one, when I stared at the blue circle on the left, after a while the circle and background kind of merged. It looked like that whole section was the same shade of blue even outside the circle
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
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
when i looked at the squares, the combination color kept slowly moving from a reddish-green to a greenish-red. Like a cantaloupe to a honeydew.
Not that existential crisis montage breaking my heart for Cedric's dad nearly 2 decades later
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
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".
"Ok, that's enough of that demon talk" is probably the best cut away from mixing science and philosophy ever.
KYLE!!! "Sap Green" My favorite too!! 😂😂
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?!
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.
Awesome video. I have studied colour theory for decades as a photographer and still learned some great stuff in this video. Good one.
I think you deserve your own show on PBS mixing colors for 30 minutes
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
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
Absolutely ace intro! Never seen or heard of your channel before this random video popped up on my feed. Thought "This looks interesting" so gave it a click. Once you started talking I was laughing my head off and thinking "what the hell is this? Is this guy for real?". You had me, sir. And for that great bit of comedy, you have earned another sub. 😅
there is a difference between physical pigments and light though as physical pygments behave VERY differently when mixed depending on binder, consistency and how many pigments or what kind of pigments were used as well as general quality of paint
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
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
This was the most amazing thing to me, I've never been so excited haha, definitely showing this to everyone
Imaginary colors are interesting, I never thought it was possible to actually imagine a new color.