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    Re: Colors in Garters

    Quote Originally Posted by Stefan-A View Post
    Eyes don't have a color.

    First one to explain why, gets a prize.
    Because it's the iris that has the color?

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    Re: Colors in Garters

    Quote Originally Posted by Stefan-A View Post
    Eyes don't have a color.

    First one to explain why, gets a prize.
    What is colour anyway? Just the way an object reflects or transmits different frequencies of light.

    For what it's worth, my eyes are the same as Richard's. We say that my eyes change colour depending on the light, whether they actually change colour or not isn't relevant really, colour is all in the perception.
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    Re: Colors in Garters

    Quote Originally Posted by chris-uk View Post
    What is colour anyway? Just the way an object reflects or transmits different frequencies of light.
    Exactly.

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    Re: Colors in Garters

    Yeah, but the eyes don't actually change color. They just appear to, because the frequency range of the light that's hitting them changes. That's true of any object. If the only light hitting a white wall is blue, then of course, it's going to reflect blue. I don't really know if my eyes actually change the way they reflect light but I'll tell you one thing. Those blue anery concinnus' do. Depending on temperature, the skin pigments do change what they reflect. I noticed this when brumating a very stunningly blue concinnus a couple of winters ago. When cold, it loses the blue and turns more of greyed out greenish hue. When fully warmed it's sky blue.

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    Re: Colors in Garters

    Chris you beat me to it!!
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    Re: Colors in Garters

    There is no prize. The prize is a lie.

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    Re: Colors in Garters

    Quote Originally Posted by ConcinnusMan View Post
    There is no prize. The prize is a lie.

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    Re: Colors in Garters

    The colour we see is controlled and sometimes made up by the brain. There was a BBC Horizon Doc about.I can't find the whole episode but I found this clip BBC Two - Horizon, 2011-2012, Do You See What I See?, How do we see colour?
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    Re: Colors in Garters

    Quote Originally Posted by chris-uk View Post
    What is colour anyway? Just the way an object reflects or transmits different frequencies of light.

    For what it's worth, my eyes are the same as Richard's. We say that my eyes change colour depending on the light, whether they actually change colour or not isn't relevant really, colour is all in the perception.
    Thats true, all our world is defined by our own perception, what is blue for you can be aquamarine for me, etc.

    * Human eyes cant change color, at least not like the octopus can change color, I get it now.

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    Re: Colors in Garters

    Yeah, the Octopus doesn't change color either. It just manipulates what frequencies of light get reflected. If I'm not mistaken it can actually manipulate the wavelength of light, changing it's (frequency) color.

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