
The colour conundrum
Discovery
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Is the Red That You See the Same as the Red That I See?
It's very difficult to know what we actually see that because colour is in in the eye of the beholder. So if you have different types of observer, a colour blind person or a normal person, they would construct this colour very differently from one another. People are more likely to confuse a whole range of shades around red and green, not just red and green themselves. Pink is really just a de saturated red, which means that it’s a red that has a lot of white in.
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