"Mr Macaw" wrote in message news
On Wed, 27 Apr 2016 16:02:33 +0100, NY wrote:

"Mr Macaw" wrote in message
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WHich is also why generally omen are bettere at picking out curtains
and scattter cushions while the men are hunting pints.

No it's not all women, just some.

In general women see more colours or rather have a beter perception of
shades.

No, a few % do. The rest are just damn fussy. Why should a certain
colour "go with" or "clash with" another colour?

I wonder if it's that some women have a lower tolerance to "that's close
enough" and are more exacting, whereas some men think "that'll do, now
let
me concentrate on something more interesting".

I can tell the difference between colours very easily - if I'm trying to
patch up a damaged wall and can't get the precise paint colour, it annoys
me. But I just don't understand how a woman can say "you can't wear
orange and blue at the same time." Why not? Why should orange and blue
be wrong when both are right individually?

I don't know why not, but it is a real effect.

If you don't mind a melt down between the ears, try this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_color

Colour perception is a very strange thing. Do you remember that picture
of a
dress (possibly a bride's mother's outfit for a wedding) that was in the
news last year. Some people saw it as gold and some as black. My wife and
I
both swore blind that it was one colour or the other (we saw different)
and
could not see the opposite colour even when we knew the alternative
perception. It turned out that the actual colour (by looking at relative
intensities of RGB) was the one that I couldn't see, and that I was one
of
the people who were fooled by the blue background and mentally corrected
for
what we perceived as a tungsten-versus-daylight colour cast in the whole
photo. I forget what the proportions were of people who saw the dress as
one
colour or the other, but it was far more evenly balanced than the
proportion
of people with normal colour vision versus those with one the the various
types of colour blindness.

I saw it as light blue and gold. Which is what the photo was. You can
see it in the link below, and if you put it into a photo editor you'll see
the lighter areas have more B than R and G. And the darker areas have way
too much intensity for black. It's the camera that got it wrong, nothing
to do with colour perception.

Your cite below says the exact opposite.

If you're seeing anything other than light blue and gold, either your eyes
are ****ed up, or your monitor is very dark.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dr...ral_phenomenon)