Anyway, I'm on book 18 or so, 3rd pass, still finding jokes and references I missed. Calling it now, Discworld is the best fiction I've read in 40+ years.
Also worth reading the books he co-wrote with Stephen Baxter.
The first book is ok, but the rest of the series is pretty meh. Still bought and read them all as a Pratchett fan, but I wouldn't recommend them to others. If you want to expand past the Discworld series, Good Omens is a much better recommendation. Also Nation is a really good book too.
Gold is – it's an orangeish yellow. I think what you're meaning is that when people say "gold", they usually are referring to the material properties of the metal as well. But the actual color does have a spectral hue. Magenta on the other hand, (including shades of pink that fall under magenta) is not a spectral color, and is just how our brain interprets the combination of signals from our red and blue cones.
I'm not quite sure what you mean. If you took a picture of an orange and sampled a pixel from it, it wouldn't look like an orange (fruit) any more, but it would look orange (color). Likewise sampling a pixel from a picture of a piece of gold wouldn't look like gold (metal), but it would still be gold (color).
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_druid@sh.itjust.works · 30 pts · 1y
If this is another attempt to get me to stare into a laser, I'm going to say "Fool me once."
moonlight@fedia.io · 21 pts · 1y
The article is paywalled, but from the part I could read, it sounds like they're just making hyperbolic colors, which is a pretty well known phenomenon which you can experience at home: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_color#Chimerical_colors
They've done it using a new technique which is cool, but seeing super saturated hyperbolic colors is not a new thing.
crimsoncobalt@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
https://archive.is/2025.04.18-182116/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01252-3
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 16 pts · 1y
It's bright super-saturated teal. So now we know teal is "true" green.
Teal@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
This sounds cool to me. I’d love to see it.
HorikBrun@kbin.earth · 12 pts · 1y
Better be named "Octarine"
shalafi@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
I will never have an original thought in my life.
Anyway, I'm on book 18 or so, 3rd pass, still finding jokes and references I missed. Calling it now, Discworld is the best fiction I've read in 40+ years.
adespoton@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 1y
Sir Pratchett was a genius. He will continue to be missed.
Also worth reading the books he co-wrote with Stephen Baxter.
lunarul@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
The first book is ok, but the rest of the series is pretty meh. Still bought and read them all as a Pratchett fan, but I wouldn't recommend them to others. If you want to expand past the Discworld series, Good Omens is a much better recommendation. Also Nation is a really good book too.
Rhoeri@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Similarly, I think I’ve read somewhere that pink isn’t in the color spectrum. Or was it magenta?
catloaf@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
A lot of colors, like those, as well as gold, aren't on the spectrum of visible light either.
moonlight@fedia.io · 4 pts · 1y
Gold is – it's an orangeish yellow. I think what you're meaning is that when people say "gold", they usually are referring to the material properties of the metal as well. But the actual color does have a spectral hue. Magenta on the other hand, (including shades of pink that fall under magenta) is not a spectral color, and is just how our brain interprets the combination of signals from our red and blue cones.
catloaf@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
Right. If you took a picture of a piece of gold and either sampled a point or blurred it together to one color, it wouldn't look like gold any more.
moonlight@fedia.io · 2 pts · 1y
I'm not quite sure what you mean. If you took a picture of an orange and sampled a pixel from it, it wouldn't look like an orange (fruit) any more, but it would look orange (color). Likewise sampling a pixel from a picture of a piece of gold wouldn't look like gold (metal), but it would still be gold (color).
iopq@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
It would just be yellow
catloaf@lemm.ee · -1 pts · 1y
https://www.w3.org/wiki/CSS/Properties/color/keywords
Gold just looks like a dull yellow out of context.
Rhoeri@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y
I’ve always wondered why no one ever seems to mention that there’s no such thing as brown light.
BT_7274@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
It’s orange. Brown is just really dark orange.
iopq@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y
It could be a very dark red or yellow as well
moody@lemmings.world · 0 pts · 1y
Pink is a shade of red, so pink itself is not a real color.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y