Random Thought Thread

Here's a random thought

I think "pink" is a weird color. It's light red, but other light colors don't get their own name. But light red is distinctive enough to warrant a special name.

I think I read that "orange" is called orange because of the fruit and we'd just call it reddish yellow otherwise.

Magenta is a lie. There is no such color. It's what we see when our eyes get a similar amount of blue light and red light. Short wavelength and long wavelength. Rather than interpolate and see a color mid way like we do with yellow (a real color that we can't directly see due to no yellow cones in our eyes) our brains make up the color magenta. It should look green.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
Here's a random thought

I think "pink" is a weird color. It's light red, but other light colors don't get their own name. But light red is distinctive enough to warrant a special name.

I think I read that "orange" is called orange because of the fruit and we'd just call it reddish yellow otherwise.

Magenta is a lie. There is no such color. It's what we see when our eyes get a similar amount of blue light and red light. Short wavelength and long wavelength. Rather than interpolate and see a color mid way like we do with yellow (a real color that we can't directly see due to no yellow cones in our eyes) our brains make up the color magenta. It should look green.
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Light is weird, all them fancy colors I put on titanium aren't really there at all🤪
 
XtianAus said:
Also why is it called "blacksmith competition"? Have they just totally got that wrong? Sounds weird 🤣

It was cool to see Jo the Machinist Jo the Machinist and CPK banner in the background of a video that was meant for people 'outside' the knife world.
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That chopping competition is held at the same time as the Grudge match competition. That's where a bunch of Forged in Fire alumni get together and face off.
 
Blues said:
Color Nathan the Machinist Nathan the Machinist worked up this morning. He must be seeing red.
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A person can see red. And green. And blue. Everything else is interpolated, and most colors are associated with a particular frequency or wavelength of light. However that is not the case with magenta. Because magenta is stupid and I hate it.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
A person can see red. And green. And blue. Everything else is interpolated, and most colors are associated with a particular frequency or wavelength of light. However that is not the case with magenta. Because magenta is stupid and I hate it.
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From Magenta Ain't A Color:

"Sir Isaac Newton noticed that magenta did not exist in the spectrum of colors from white light when he played with prisms. But when he superimposed the red end of the spectrum on to the blue end, he saw the color magenta (this can be done with two prisms to make two spectral spreads, "rainbows"):"

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Hate is a big word. Makes more sense with USPS. And good morning. :)
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
A person can see red. And green. And blue. Everything else is interpolated, and most colors are associated with a particular frequency or wavelength of light. However that is not the case with magenta. Because magenta is stupid and I hate it.
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So you're saying that you are putting magenta scales on the boooeee knafs?
 
ferider said:
Magenta-L.jpg


From Magenta Ain't A Color:

"Sir Isaac Newton noticed that magenta did not exist in the spectrum of colors from white light when he played with prisms. But when he superimposed the red end of the spectrum on to the blue end, he saw the color magenta (this can be done with two prisms to make two spectral spreads, "rainbows"):"

extraspectral.jpg


Hate is a big word. Makes more sense with USPS. And good morning. :)
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the fact that this is easily verifiable makes it all the more maddening
 
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