This is the most interesting thing I have ever read. It is very interesting to think that our eyes can evolve over time to see different colors. Maybe in another couple millennium, humans will be able to see even more advanced colors. I wonder why the Egyptians were one of the only ones able to see blue and no one else. Since most others could not see blue, it could mean that they saw their artwork differently than us, and so made sense of it differently. And its interesting that still, to this day, some people can not tell what blue looks like. I am also astonished by how much color sight depends on language. If there was no word for a color you see, then you would not be able to describe it because of the language gap.
I found it interesting that some members of the Himba tribe weren't actually able to distinguish the blue square from the green squares. I also find it interesting that people from the Himba tribe are able to distinguish the difference between two greens that look almost exactly the same to me. This reminds me of when I read an article about Eskimos having around 50 words for snow and around 1000 words for reindeer.
When the author mentioned that black and white appeared the most and very little other colors appeared in Homer's Iliad, I wondered if people had originally viewed the world like in a black and white film from the early 1900s.
This is my theory on why this occurred: Because color sight depended on language, black and white (the colors used by far most) could have been words for different colors or meanings as well. I think that black and white could have easily been used to say dark and light, and because everything can universally be described as dark or light, this is the reason why black and white were used so much. This may have been true for other color words as well, however their meaning as another word could have been far less used. Such as how Homer describes iron and sheep as violet. Violet could have been a word such as grey, because iron and sheep can both be perceived that way. Another example would be how honey is green, which could have meant bright or colorful. I like Ayden's point about artwork, and how it could have been visualized differently than we do today. Although this makes sense based on the article, I think that it wouldn't be that extreme as to say they saw the artwork differently. Based on my theory, they would see all artwork the same way, however they would describe it far differently than each other.
This is fascinating. I had always perceived that blue was a color that people had always been able to see. I also wonder why Egyptians where able to see the color blue. Everyone else was so off about the color blue. Some people thought it was wine colored! It is cool how language connects with the color you see. I think the article show how much eyes have evolved, and how far they are going to go.
I love the color blue, and now it is VERY common! I can not believe that back then the word for the color blue did not exist. I also am wondering why did most people not ask what the name for that color was? I know that it was hard to see, but it must've looked weird. Surprisingly the Himba tribe could spot different shades of green, but not blue. I agree with Owen, and also wonder if people originally viewed the world in a black and white film from the 1900s. This article was a great one and I learned a lot from it.
I really like the color blue, but it's weird to think that no one in "ancient" times asked what color the sky was or what color the oceans/lakes in the world were. The Himba tribe could see different shades of green, but not blue. Maybe they saw turquoise?? Like Owen and Julianna, I also think at some point in history people might have seen the world in black and white, or maybe seen some of the colors but not all of them. I liked this article and I learned a lot from it about the color blue. Another really interesting thing that I obtained from this is that language might affect your ability to see different colors. I wonder that in the background of the Mona Lisa, some people from Location A might see a different color than people from Location B?? I don't know, but the fact that Egyptians in past times might have been the only people who could see blue would have been cool for them, I guess, and cool for science. And, like Siji said, it is interesting that SOME people, not many, I hope, can't really tell you what blue is or describe it. I mean, I can't describe colors, but I know what they are. Maybe it factors on not only the language gaps, but maybe on something else. I wonder if a rainbow came up, what people saw if it wasn't blue. This was a really cool article about how different people see different things when it comes to colors, ESPECIALLY blue.
This article definitely made me think. However, I do not one hundred percent agree with the logic in this article. I think that the sky is so many different colors that one might not say it is blue if they have not been told it was blue because it is really a combination of so many colors. Even blue eyes usually look yellow at the rim and center. Our eye is only capable of seeing certain colors, that is why you can not invent another one. However, you can mix the primary colors to create a shade and invent a name for the shade. Because of only 5-8 percent of the world has blue eyes I think that they did not have a use for the color blue. It is not that they could not see that color.
I think that this was very interesting. I had no idea that our eyes can not see colors at one point and then later on see them. One thing that I don't get is how they would see the world if they couldn't see blue. Was the color blue replaced with another color that they could see or was it just black and white?
I found this article very interesting. I think it was crazy that the sea was described as "wine dark" instead of "deep blue" or even just "green" or "blue".
This article was very interesting. I remember when the dress was first posted on the internet, and nobody could figure out the color behind it. I think the dress was very important to science because it has opened the door to more thorough research on the science of how color is perceived. I wonder why the ancient cultures did not just invent a new color, (it didn't even have to be necessarily blue) since they invented so many other things back then. Another reason it doesn't make sense to me is because blue is one of the main colors in the world. Water (looks) blue (it's actually clear), but more importantly the sky is blue. Water and sky are two of the main things we see in this world. This article also mentioned that the color of green was described as honey, but I see why, since they didn't know what to call blue, it also mentions that in ancient texts, yellow is barely ever talked about. I assume that they probably didn't know what yellow looked like, and so instead of calling yellow honey, they called honey green instead because they didn't know how else to describe it. However, it seems crazy that the philosophers of the ancient world, some of the smartest people who have ever lived, could not find a solution to the color blue. They can see that the ocean is not the color of wine, and they did not mention what color the sky was because they knew that it was not even close to the color of wine. Interesting article, I will definitely look into this more.
I thought this article was very interesting. I did not know much about the background information on the color blue. People think that the color blue may not have been noticed until recently. Evidence has shown that Greeks only mentioned black, white, red, and yellow. Only in Egypt did people find evidence of a blue color dye, or any signs of blue. Studies show that people may have not seen the difference between blue and other colors, so they didn't know it existed. For an example, a dress went viral on the internet some people thought it was white and gold, and others thought it was blue and black. This may be why years ago, people did not see the color blue. Overall, the article was very informative.
I that this article was so fascinating. I have always wondered when things existed and how they came to be. Before I read this article I thought that blue was a color that had existed since the beginning of time. Another thing that was interesting was that the ancient civilizations would describe the color of the ocean as wine dark not blue. I love the depth of this article and wish that I could get more like this.
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This is the most interesting thing I have ever read. It is very interesting to think that our eyes can evolve over time to see different colors. Maybe in another couple millennium, humans will be able to see even more advanced colors. I wonder why the Egyptians were one of the only ones able to see blue and no one else. Since most others could not see blue, it could mean that they saw their artwork differently than us, and so made sense of it differently. And its interesting that still, to this day, some people can not tell what blue looks like. I am also astonished by how much color sight depends on language. If there was no word for a color you see, then you would not be able to describe it because of the language gap.
I found it interesting that some members of the Himba tribe weren't actually able to distinguish the blue square from the green squares. I also find it interesting that people from the Himba tribe are able to distinguish the difference between two greens that look almost exactly the same to me. This reminds me of when I read an article about Eskimos having around 50 words for snow and around 1000 words for reindeer.
When the author mentioned that black and white appeared the most and very little other colors appeared in Homer's Iliad, I wondered if people had originally viewed the world like in a black and white film from the early 1900s.
This is my theory on why this occurred: Because color sight depended on language, black and white (the colors used by far most) could have been words for different colors or meanings as well. I think that black and white could have easily been used to say dark and light, and because everything can universally be described as dark or light, this is the reason why black and white were used so much. This may have been true for other color words as well, however their meaning as another word could have been far less used. Such as how Homer describes iron and sheep as violet. Violet could have been a word such as grey, because iron and sheep can both be perceived that way. Another example would be how honey is green, which could have meant bright or colorful. I like Ayden's point about artwork, and how it could have been visualized differently than we do today. Although this makes sense based on the article, I think that it wouldn't be that extreme as to say they saw the artwork differently. Based on my theory, they would see all artwork the same way, however they would describe it far differently than each other.
This is fascinating. I had always perceived that blue was a color that people had always been able to see. I also wonder why Egyptians where able to see the color blue. Everyone else was so off about the color blue. Some people thought it was wine colored!
It is cool how language connects with the color you see. I think the article show how much eyes have evolved, and how far they are going to go.
I love the color blue, and now it is VERY common! I can not believe that back then the word for the color blue did not exist. I also am wondering why did most people not ask what the name for that color was? I know that it was hard to see, but it must've looked weird. Surprisingly the Himba tribe could spot different shades of green, but not blue. I agree with Owen, and also wonder if people originally viewed the world in a black and white film from the 1900s. This article was a great one and I learned a lot from it.
I really like the color blue, but it's weird to think that no one in "ancient" times asked what color the sky was or what color the oceans/lakes in the world were. The Himba tribe could see different shades of green, but not blue. Maybe they saw turquoise?? Like Owen and Julianna, I also think at some point in history people might have seen the world in black and white, or maybe seen some of the colors but not all of them. I liked this article and I learned a lot from it about the color blue. Another really interesting thing that I obtained from this is that language might affect your ability to see different colors. I wonder that in the background of the Mona Lisa, some people from Location A might see a different color than people from Location B?? I don't know, but the fact that Egyptians in past times might have been the only people who could see blue would have been cool for them, I guess, and cool for science. And, like Siji said, it is interesting that SOME people, not many, I hope, can't really tell you what blue is or describe it. I mean, I can't describe colors, but I know what they are. Maybe it factors on not only the language gaps, but maybe on something else. I wonder if a rainbow came up, what people saw if it wasn't blue. This was a really cool article about how different people see different things when it comes to colors, ESPECIALLY blue.
This article definitely made me think. However, I do not one hundred percent agree with the logic in this article. I think that the sky is so many different colors that one might not say it is blue if they have not been told it was blue because it is really a combination of so many colors. Even blue eyes usually look yellow at the rim and center. Our eye is only capable of seeing certain colors, that is why you can not invent another one. However, you can mix the primary colors to create a shade and invent a name for the shade. Because of only 5-8 percent of the world has blue eyes I think that they did not have a use for the color blue. It is not that they could not see that color.
I think that this was very interesting. I had no idea that our eyes can not see colors at one point and then later on see them. One thing that I don't get is how they would see the world if they couldn't see blue. Was the color blue replaced with another color that they could see or was it just black and white?
I found this article very interesting. I think it was crazy that the sea was described as "wine dark" instead of "deep blue" or even just "green" or "blue".
This article was very interesting. I remember when the dress was first posted on the internet, and nobody could figure out the color behind it. I think the dress was very important to science because it has opened the door to more thorough research on the science of how color is perceived. I wonder why the ancient cultures did not just invent a new color, (it didn't even have to be necessarily blue) since they invented so many other things back then. Another reason it doesn't make sense to me is because blue is one of the main colors in the world. Water (looks) blue (it's actually clear), but more importantly the sky is blue. Water and sky are two of the main things we see in this world. This article also mentioned that the color of green was described as honey, but I see why, since they didn't know what to call blue, it also mentions that in ancient texts, yellow is barely ever talked about. I assume that they probably didn't know what yellow looked like, and so instead of calling yellow honey, they called honey green instead because they didn't know how else to describe it. However, it seems crazy that the philosophers of the ancient world, some of the smartest people who have ever lived, could not find a solution to the color blue. They can see that the ocean is not the color of wine, and they did not mention what color the sky was because they knew that it was not even close to the color of wine. Interesting article, I will definitely look into this more.
I thought this article was very interesting. I did not know much about the background information on the color blue. People think that the color blue may not have been noticed until recently. Evidence has shown that Greeks only mentioned black, white, red, and yellow. Only in Egypt did people find evidence of a blue color dye, or any signs of blue. Studies show that people may have not seen the difference between blue and other colors, so they didn't know it existed. For an example, a dress went viral on the internet some people thought it was white and gold, and others thought it was blue and black. This may be why years ago, people did not see the color blue. Overall, the article was very informative.
I that this article was so fascinating. I have always wondered when things existed and how they came to be. Before I read this article I thought that blue was a color that had existed since the beginning of time. Another thing that was interesting was that the ancient civilizations would describe the color of the ocean as wine dark not blue. I love the depth of this article and wish that I could get more like this.
P.S I will miss science class
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