Harmonia Philosophica

Category: Colours

  • What colour?
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    What colour?

    What colour were fossil animals? Scientists have evaluated fossil color reconstruction methods and proposed a new study framework that improves and expands current practice. (1) What a weird era. Our knowledge gets accumulated in amazing rates. And yet, we are still here. Only knowing about us. Yes, we know about the dinosaurs. But we will […]

  • Colour where there is no colour… A cosmos where there is no cosmos…
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    Colour where there is no colour… A cosmos where there is no cosmos…

    Engineers have found that under the right conditions, ordinary clear water droplets on a transparent surface can produce brilliant colors, without the addition of inks or dyes. By tuning size, illumination angle, and curvature, MIT engineers can produce brilliant colors, in patterns they can predict, in otherwise transparent droplets. (1) Under the right angle, everything […]

  • Colour-blind: A surprisingly common problem… [White-balancing red skies]
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    Colour-blind: A surprisingly common problem… [White-balancing red skies]

    Multiple wildfires have ravaged the western United States in the past month, scattering particles of ash and smoke into the air. On Wednesday, residents across the West, woke up to a dark, bronzed sky that nearly shut out all daylight. But as people tried to capture the scene, many noticed a strange phenomenon: Certain photographs […]

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    Babies categorizing colours…

    Researchers have revealed that infants aged between 5 and 7 months hold the representation of color categories in their brain, even before the acquisition of language. [1] We believe we have evolved and changed. But we are still that baby which tries to “categorize” everything it sees. Babies we still are. Trapped in the bodies […]