To see a difference in saturation as less significant than a difference in hue? Yeah I guess but that doesn’t sound that unlikely for something to evolve with, especially as perceived saturation can easily be changed by a glare over the surface or something.
From a spectral perspective, there’s one that absorbs a lot of red and a bit of green (the blue one), and one that absorbs a lot of blue (the yellow one). Mixing them together, as long as particles overlap eachother and light has to travel through multiple, should result in a greenish hue. The center of the spectrum will still be in a different place from either of the parents even with more than 3 color receptors, while in the top example the center of the spectrum stays in the same space and only the ‘spread’ on the spectrum changes, even with more than 3 color receptors.
This implies that the pencils evolved the same color receptors and optical neurons that humans did
Which by far is the least concerning part of sentient pencils with arms and legs spawning offsprings in the white void?
Shhh I’m almost there
Hey, we can’t prove they didn’t
To see a difference in saturation as less significant than a difference in hue? Yeah I guess but that doesn’t sound that unlikely for something to evolve with, especially as perceived saturation can easily be changed by a glare over the surface or something.
From a spectral perspective, there’s one that absorbs a lot of red and a bit of green (the blue one), and one that absorbs a lot of blue (the yellow one). Mixing them together, as long as particles overlap eachother and light has to travel through multiple, should result in a greenish hue. The center of the spectrum will still be in a different place from either of the parents even with more than 3 color receptors, while in the top example the center of the spectrum stays in the same space and only the ‘spread’ on the spectrum changes, even with more than 3 color receptors.