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kaberett... and leads with an explanation of "opponency" that I did not quite manage to follow, for reasons that have more to do with typesetting of the ebook than anything else, but which problem I addressed by Visiting Wikipedia.
The wikipedia page on opponent process begins
The opponent process is a color theory...
... and indeed when my eyebrows raised and my eyes flicked over to the table of contents, I was unsurprised to see a section titled "Criticism".
All of which led inexorably on to impossible colors and, delightfully, the line of purples.
Yong has not thus far (I am a little under halfway through the chapter) even gestured vaguely in the direction of the immediately-obvious-to-me-from-the-opening-sentence-on-wikipedia Controversy about opponency, which means that I (i) have no idea and (ii) am poorly equipped to judge how this particular Controversy compares with The Controversy About Mantle Plumes wherein the small number of people who think thermal convective upwellings Aren't What's Going On for a long time were also the only people who cared about the wikipedia page on mantle plumes, which has at some point in the last decade been extensively edited to reflect actual current scientific consensus. Which in turn means that I am unsure how large a grain of salt to take with everything else Yong says!
Meanwhile,
Our [human] lenses typically block out UV, but people who have lost their lenses to surgeries or accidents can perceive UV as whitish blue. This happened to the painter Claude Monet, who lost his left lens at the age of 82. He began seeing the UV light that reflects off water lilies, and started painting them as whitish blue instead of white.
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Date: 2024-07-13 01:58 am (UTC)WHAT
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Date: 2024-07-13 05:10 am (UTC)MORE OR LESS MY REACTION with a side of . . . because I didn't Get Monet until I was standing in front of one because apparently reproductions just... cannot capture some fairly key-to-me consequences of the medium!
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Date: 2024-07-13 11:20 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2024-07-15 12:16 pm (UTC)"Reddish green" redirects here. Reddish Green is also a place in Reddish, Greater Manchester, UK.
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Date: 2024-07-15 07:35 pm (UTC)RIGHT.