https://ismy.blue/

Two years ago i shared this website where you try and determine when a shade is either blue or green.

Posting it again because lemmy has grown quite a bit since then, maybe we have more people that havent tried it!

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    5 hours ago

    As cool as this is, it would somewhat depend on how accurate the display you’re looking at it on is. The same person might get different results on different displays.

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    From About on site:

    Who made this?

    I’m Patrick Mineault, a neuroscience and AI researcher. I made this as a side project using Claude 3.5 Sonnet. I obtained a PhD in visual neuroscience from McGill in 2014. You can read my blog here.

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      5 hours ago

      IIRC if you trace the etymology of it you’d see it means something like “Turkish blue”.

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      6 hours ago

      Yeah the phrasing on this is odd. If turquoise (or cyan) is an even mix of blue and green, this is really a test to determine how closely you can identify when blue and green have a 50-50 mix.

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    “Your boundary is at hue 174, greener than 55% of the population. For you, turquoise is blue.” tbf, a lot of these were on the fence for me. there should be an “even distribution” button for when you can’t rightly decide.

    also, i have brown hazel eyes and am male (cis, biological). I wonder how this skews for women, as they have naturally better chromoperception, and eye color because I’ve heard that darker eye colors add a touch of saturation by absorbing more defractive light.

    can we get a reverse engineered site where it uses other color gradients? This looks like it could have taken some one 45 minutes to code with some CSS and a PERL script.

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      7 hours ago

      I’m the opposite. For me there’s a wide gap. Because I just think turquoise for everything in the middle.

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    9 hours ago

    I am color blind and they all started to look the same after about the 3rd one.

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    I got the exact same result as OP.

    Interestingly, I tried it on a Korean friend, and they got 194. Koreans are always calling colors I consider green, blue.

    Wait…I got that backwards

    Had a blue light filter on…

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    Your boundary is at hue 189, bluer than 98% of the population. For you, turquoise is green.

    I was a graphic designer. I’m picky about colors. Color names are pretty much useless as demonstrated by this site. It’s why we use things like the Pantone matching system. Both to pick colors that don’t have names, and to have a standard to match printed output to.

    Colors can be, and are, spec’ed by CMYK, RGB, and Hex values, but those values don’t guarantee the colors will match. Monitors and printing presses of various types all output color differently. Screen printing a shirt, is different from CMYK printing on an offset printer, and printing on a laser printer. They’ll all produce slightly different, or sometimes very different, results for the same values input.

    For printing, a spot color is often used, that is, a specific color of ink, say Coca-Cola Red, that is mixed and added as a fifth color to the usual CMYK plates. That way the color is guaranteed to match. Fabric dyes are also custom mixed, of course.

    A physical, printed book, like a Pantone swatch book, or even a color card produced by the company, is the only way to check how close the color is. And, there are acceptable ranges depending on the product, someone at, say, Coca-Cola, decides whether a color produced is close enough. They understand there are variances due to technology. “Close enough”, though, will always be very damn close for a larger company, but not necessarily perfect. They don’t fuck around with their branding.

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    12 hours ago

    My main criticisms is the “your boundary” doesn’t need to be a line, it could have a width. There should be a third choice for when the color seems evenly split.