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What is the coolest/weirdest... (self.Blind)
submitted by MrBillAcehouse
My friend and I were just discussing blindness and wondering what it must be like having sighted people explain colour to you.
So, what is the coolest/weirdest/best/whatever description you’ve heard of colour?
We don’t mean to offend if this is an ignorant question; we really very innocently were just wondering what that might be like.
(also, we are a little baked and this is the most coherently I’ve managed to hold on to a thought all night)
So, what is the coolest/weirdest/best/whatever description you’ve heard of colour?
We don’t mean to offend if this is an ignorant question; we really very innocently were just wondering what that might be like.
(also, we are a little baked and this is the most coherently I’ve managed to hold on to a thought all night)
Amonwilde 4 points 5y ago
As a low vision person who knows perfectly well what color is, I kind of suspect it's overrated as a concept. More of a cultural thing than an actual thing that should need to be described. It's just wavelengths of light, people, get over it.
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strangehoney 3 points 5y ago
https://youtu.be/59YN8_lg6-U
Tommy Edison does a great job of explaining!
Tommy Edison does a great job of explaining!
[deleted] 3 points 5y ago
I’m blind and enjoy Tommy Edison while baked.
strangehoney 1 points 5y ago
I'm now realizing Tommy Edison is probably also baked while making those videos
somewhoever 2 points 5y ago
That is an understandable take, but there is so much vital, conscious communication with color by an individual's choices, a decorator's intent, or an artist's brush through their palette, arrangement, and combination.
After studying color theory, I would raise the possibility that a promising path to describe color might be through cultural emotion conventions.
After studying color theory, I would raise the possibility that a promising path to describe color might be through cultural emotion conventions.
Nandflash 2 points 5y ago
You can't really describe a color, so most of the time it's just comparing them to something else.
ENTJ351 1 points 4y ago
I can agree with the ones who says it’s overrated or it doesn’t really work.I saw a little up until I was 8 years old. I was very low vision, but one of these things I saw was color. I would say by and large to a blind person it doesn’t matter that much. If you tell me about a color I could probably understand it. You can’t properly describe colors besides associate them with something else. In that case conventional societal meaning would probably work best. However, the description of color itself really isn’t that useful.
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