Strange Ideas that just might work

[Cyclefrance]

I had this idea as a boy that we all saw different colours from each other but wouldn't know this because we would say 'that is yellow' and 'this is red' so we all thought we were seeing the same colour - when what I was seeing as yellow was your red.... and so on....

Does that make sense?

[limey]

Originally Posted by Cyclefrance

I had this idea as a boy that we all saw different colours from each other but wouldn't know this because we would say 'that is yellow' and 'this is red' so we all thought we were seeing the same colour - when what I was seeing as yellow was your red.... and so on....

Does that make sense?

I still think that!

[romuh doog]

I (upon discovering what a Hooters restaurant was really about) decided that I would like to open up a restaurant called Peckers. I would hire muscle bound, hotties to serve up footlongs, and dress them in next to nothing.

When they became overweight or got pudgy? They could go work for my BBQ restaurant Porkys.

~ Thats all I had....

[Kitsune]

Originally Posted by Cyclefrance

I had this idea as a boy that we all saw different colours from each other but wouldn't know this because we would say 'that is yellow' and 'this is red' so we all thought we were seeing the same colour - when what I was seeing as yellow was your red.... and so on....

Does that make sense?

Wondered about that, myself.

Studies show this is true by measuring what nerves fire in the visual cortex and at what frequency when a subject is exposed to certain wavelengths of light, but the variation isn't a huge amount. Most of the variation comes from the peak wavelength that your cones are excited by and depends on variations in the pigment inside the cones. Your long wavelength cone might be more "tuned" to a wavlength several nanometers above or below someone else's, resulting in your orange being slightly more yellow or red than someone else's.

Color perception is all kinds of weird.

[bluecuracao]

Originally Posted by Cyclefrance

I had this idea as a boy that we all saw different colours from each other but wouldn't know this because we would say 'that is yellow' and 'this is red' so we all thought we were seeing the same colour - when what I was seeing as yellow was your red.... and so on....

Does that make sense?

Geezus, I thought I was the only one who thought that. But it does make sense--some people do seem to have a whack sense of color. And of course, to them, it's not at all.

[Spexxvet]

My idea:
Package a variety of blank receipts, and market them to business travellers, that they can submit for meal reimbursements. "Bag o' reciepts".