Colour

Everything is Arbitrary

Music from Danosongs

This gif from Wikicommons is what to cast to mind when the topic of a prism dispersing a beam of white light comes up.

Sources:

  • Kassia St Clair’s The Secret Lives of Color
  • Phillip Ball’s Bright Earth
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light#/media/File:Light_dispersion_conceptual_waves.gif
  • https://xkcd.com/273/
  • http://brainden.com/color-illusions.htm
  • https://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/apr/29/what-vocabularies-tell-us-about-culture?CMP=fb_gu
  • https://www.colormatters.com/color-and-design/are-black-and-white-colors
  • https://www.pantone.com/color-intelligence/color-education/color-iq-test
  • https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/11/how-pantone-became-a-pop-culture-icon/414043/
  • http://theconversation.com/curious-kids-do-different-people-see-the-same-colours-107972
  • https://www.thecut.com/2018/02/my-life-as-a-woman-with-colorblindness.html
  • https://medium.com/@terossjr/indigos-indignity-16cd7ad1f54a
  • https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/gems-of-colour-pigments-of-the-%E2%80%98colourmen%E2%80%99
  • https://slate.com/technology/2017/04/heres-why-people-saw-the-dress-differently.html
  • https://www.jstor.org/stable/20203637
  • http://www.webexhibits.org/pigments/intro/medieval.html
  • https://www.the-scientist.com/foundations/newtons-color-theory-ca-1665-31931
  • https://medium.com/a-history-of-color/the-debate-over-indigo-671a0154525a
  • https://jezebel.com/the-history-of-pink-for-girls-blue-for-boys-5790638
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/when-did-girls-start-wearing-pink-1370097/
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0beqeccEEFI
  • http://ebdjournal.com/blog/health/mythbusting-colour-therapy
  • https://neilpatel.com/blog/gender-and-color/
  • https://theconversation.com/can-pink-really-pacify-102696

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