Applies to many other colors as well. I “understand” why that is but it hurts my brain to think about.
Just remember that colours don’t exist - it’s just bits of light that a object doesn’t absorb bouncing back towards our eyes. Our brain then tries to process it.
Now let’s talk about reality itself, and the consciousness you think you are using to observe it
There was a push back when HD was kinda new for 4-color TVs. I guess it would just reprocess 3-color data inputs into 4-color output or something. It seemed to die down when 4k caught on as the “next thing”
Yeah, that always seemed like a marketing gimmick not based on any science to me
As a kid messing around with MSPaint or similar programs, I always wondered why there were never any good yellows. They always seemed to offer a yellowish Brown or a light orange, but never a nice bright yellow like you would find in crayons or paint.
On the topic of messing around in Paint, there’s something really cool you can do assuming you have a display with normal pixels.
Make a new paint document and color the left half perfectly red and the right half perfectly blue (#FF0000 and #0000FF). Make sure the colors are touching in the middle. If you look really close at the place the colors touch, there will be a tiny little black gap. If you do the opposite, with red on the right and blue on the left, the gap will not appear.This is, of course, because of the physical layout of the pixels with R on the left and B on the right. By putting red on the left and blue on the right, we make the biggest possible subpixel dark zone.
I always thought it was crazy to wonder what the qualia of colors we can’t see but other animals can is. It’s sort of like being a cat or some other animal with limited color vision and trying to imagine what humans see. How would you prove to a cat that those colors exist?
