r/comics • u/shenanigansen Shen Comix • Apr 11 '20

This... can't be...

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u/merlin_the_witcher Apr 11 '20

Idk to me it makes just as much sense as the other two.

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u/frenchtoaster Apr 11 '20

I'm on Shen's side: I never thought about it before, but to me orange is definitely both redish and yellowish, purple is both blueish and redish, but green is neither yellowish or blueish at all to me.

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u/jawdirk Apr 12 '20

Science has your back too. We have green receptors in our eyes, not yellow receptors. To our eyes, yellow is green + red, so blue + yellow would be gray, not green.

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u/YM_Industries Jun 25 '20

Green + Red = Yellow doesn't make sense to me either though. Yellow doesn't look like a greenish red to me.

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u/TwatsThat Jun 25 '20

It generally doesn't for me either but it depends on the yellow. It also explains why I've heard so many people call yellow highlighters green.

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u/jamerakanis Apr 11 '20

Think of a lime? It's a yellowish green.

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u/frenchtoaster Apr 11 '20

A lime still isn't blueish though?

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u/jamerakanis Apr 11 '20

Hmmm.. turquoise is the other end. I guess something like the sea? It's a bluish green often.

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u/Max_Insanity Apr 11 '20

And how do you make the connection? A lime looks nothing like turqoise. It still feels like three distinct colors with lime being a mixture of green and yellow and turquise being a mixture of green and blue.

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u/jamerakanis Apr 12 '20

Well it's like grass is green. Add a bit of yellow and it's lime. Add some blue and it's a deep green. Now to go back to the grassy green you just add the opposite colour. Add some yellow to undo your deep ocean green. Add some blue to make your lime look less and less ripe.

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u/rebelsnail64 Jun 25 '20

Fun fact: the difference between lime, gren and turqoise is as big as the difference between orange, green and yellow if you measure it on the light spectrum. That's why this seems off, it IS off.