Anyone else interested in color theory?

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It’s pretty fascinating. I enjoy mixing color combinations that blend with color combinations that contrast.

I remember we got some rudimentary training in it in 1st year of uni, but haven't read about it since. I know the basics of complimentary colours, HSL, colour modes on the PC etc. because that's part of my everyday job.

I don't paint, really, but I like to just mix colours sometimes. Colours have a calming effect on me.




Or digitally:

I studied color science during my undergraduate degree. I find color fascinating. This is long, but well worth it:

I really like playing with different color combinations. Lately I've been enamored with seemingly clashing colors like coral orange and medium forest green.

As your avatar already tells. Btw. I totally liked your haircolor in your cute portrait photo.
It's a nice thing to make your own environment a little more colorful in a nice way because it may brightens up your mood every day you are seeing it. My protanomalie causes me to see colors a lot different then other people of course. Has as well as my lack of deep empathy advantages in bloody fights only. But it makes me disliking all the drawings above just because the used colors are looking quite dirty and nasty to me.

^ Thank you. I hadn't heard of protanomaly before so I looked it up and found it interesting. What color combinations or scenery do favor as a result?

For those interested, this chart of the different types of colorblindness and their specific color spectrums helped me visualize the differences.

The protanomaly causes that red about 10 times darker, orange-red brighter and blue-green nearly gray and violett has no red at all in it. I prefere more intense colors because of that.

I would need kind of pink glasses for relating more to normal vision even if it's not fully correct. But the pictures above are quite nice as soon as I do because the red is brighter then and the blue-green becomes just a blu-green. You would need bluish-green glasses for of matching my vision.

My kids have both a normal vision. But my daughter may see even more colors then people who have a normal vision because the receptors that are related to the different X chromosomes do mix. She acknowledged once that she sees orange-red a lot brighter then my son did. Something like that makes the normal vision kind of a spectrum too. You may google for tetrachromats. You can't test something like this with computer screens because they use only the common 3 colors which match normal vision for those.

^ I wonder how color acuity may relate to tetrachromats. (Reference: old thread discussing color acuity https://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=307611 )

It also made me think of mantis shrimp:

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/phys.org/news/2013-09-mantis-shrimp-world-eyesbut.amp

Whenever I think about this I try to imagine the impossible: How do these numerous other colors look? I can't even comprehend it, but it's so curious to think about.

As far as I know realize tetrachromates just more shades of the spectrum. Could be that my daughter is be able to see different red and brown tones that vary in light frequency of the red only and are all looking the same for other people. But for testing it a source of a true spectrum would be required the artifical mix in computers where for violet red becomes added to blue or - depending on the cam - violet is always shown as blue only.

Color is a biological response to wavelength, which makes it a very difficult thing to discuss. Do tetrachromats experience the world differently than trichromats? That is hard to answer, but this artist is a tetrachromat:

Beyond Average Color Vision: An Interview with Tetrachromat Artist Concetta Antico

Here is an interesting color test from X-Rite:

The X-Rite Color Challenge and Hue Test

BTW, if you like art and design, you may enjoy this site: Colossal Art and Design

There is a thread related to it:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=307611&start=32

Got a 2 for first try and a 0 for a more carefully second try afterwards. Don't ask me for the names of the colors because I couldn't ever tell. It tests for recognizing shades in colors but not just color vision. Depends a lot on your screen. Smartphone screens often provide far less color shades.

Thank I just saw that--thanks.

The test should be well in any screen's color gamut. While the colors will not accurately be reproduced across monitors, the test will still work well. Color deficiencies will impact the score--they talk about that at the end when they give you the score. But it is not a color blindness test per se.

The X-Rite site is a great site for color theory as well.

I have found some great artists here!

Did you ever have a look at https://www.deviantart.com ?
Don't know how people can be as good at drawing and painting even if computers are involved.

Seeing is as much of a learnt skill as it is an innate ability. Oddly enough, you will find visual deficits in a larger proportion of visual artist than in the general population. Having a inferior depth perception can sometimes be a help. Rembrandt is thought not to have stereopsis (the ability to see depth information coming from both eyes), yet he painted images with great depth and reality.