I was coming to that. Some people like Van Gogh paintings others think they're not so great. But I don't believe for a moment that the actual 'colour' one person 'sees' is necessarily the same as that seen by another. Of course matching colour swatches tells us something - that two people can come to the same conclusion - but since we don't really know what seeing is there will always be uncertainty.
I think that identical twins might just see the same way. But I don't think there is an answer to this question. Don Dr E D F Williams http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams Author's Web Site and Photo Gallery Updated: March 30, 2002 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Studdert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 4:35 PM Subject: Re: HELP: Monitor/Printer color matching > On 21 Nov 2002 at 13:13, Dr E D F Williams wrote: > > > Colour perception probably developed millions of years before we became > > 'human'. I think volumes must have been written on the subject and I have > > deliberately avoided making a search. I'll do that later today. I have an > > idea that colour perception is variable and subjective, from slight > > variations between what different people see, all the way to colour > > blindness. I do know that settings Aino will put up with on her monitor > > downstairs would drive me up the wall. I know of no method of measurement > > that could help us answer this one. > > I have a few books on the matter of colour perception, from my recollection it > is innate only the colour labels have to be learnt. Apart from people who > suffer types of colour blindness we can all "see" virtually the same narrow > band of spectrum that has been deemed as the visible spectrum. > > Its then down to relativity regardless of the "colours" that each of us see in > our heads. Most people with non-colour impaired vision can match colour > swatches. Maybe the colours that we see in out heads account for the > differential between what different people see as harmonious colours? > > Rob Studdert > HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA > Tel +61-2-9554-4110 > UTC(GMT) +10 Hours > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications.html >
