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Draco18s
QUOTE (Temperance @ May 22 2013, 11:35 AM) *
A more important question: Does the sheep need them?

-Temperance


No, but they could use some safety goggles on windy days.
Cochise
QUOTE (SpellBinder @ May 22 2013, 08:48 AM) *
Great, now I feel stupid for how I described in a story a character's thermographic vision. For him, in situations where there's almost no light (he also has lowlight vision, both natural) he starts to see things in a grayscale from the heat, like a lot of the FLIRs you'll see from police chase helicopters.


That description is just as good as the one in "Changeling" (the novel about Peter "Professor" Clarris) with its reddish description. From a biological standpoint the most likely natural mechanic would involve electrochemical reaction based on near-infrared (similar to the electrochemical reaction for normal light, just with a different base molecule) and one's brain could turn that into grayscales just as well as varying degrees of red or even more (for us unpronouncable) colors. At least you didn't opt for the blurry rainbow colored variant usually associated with long wave infrared in classic thermographics.

Draco18s
QUOTE (Cochise @ May 22 2013, 12:29 PM) *
or even more (for us unpronouncable) colors


They aren't unpronouncable, they just don't have names. If we could see those wavelengths, they'd have names.
(Personally I'd go with Octorange)
Cochise
QUOTE (Draco18s @ May 22 2013, 09:28 PM) *
They aren't unpronouncable, they just don't have names.


~clap~ So you had to nitpick ...

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If we could see those wavelengths, they'd have names.


... but the point is, that we simply cannot see them. And just like a person, who has been blind since birth can ofc technically pronounce a color name as long as he/she isn't simultaniously mute, he/she simply won't be able to pronounce in a meaningful way, where both the sender and the recipient have an identical concept associated with the word. Thus my use of the word of unpronoucable. I'm sorry if that comes as an insult to your understanding of the english language.

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(Personally I'd go with Octorange)


Personally I'd use normal colornames with an added syllable: hyper-red, hyper-green, etc. with hyper-white being the mixed color of all sub colors wink.gif
Draco18s
QUOTE (Cochise @ May 22 2013, 03:03 PM) *
Personally I'd use normal colornames with an added syllable: hyper-red, hyper-green, etc. with hyper-white being the mixed color of all sub colors wink.gif


Aww, you missed the reference.
Well never mind, I screwed it up anyway.
Stahlseele
QUOTE (Draco18s @ May 22 2013, 10:41 PM) *
Aww, you missed the reference.
Well never mind, I screwed it up anyway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_colors
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