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This week I've been mainly reading, no. 109.

Like the 5 previous volumes in Michel Pastoureau's series of books on colour, White: The History of a Colour (2022) is a mixed bag. Its full of great insights & wonderful illustrations, but (unavoidably) repeats some aspects of the previous books & never really completely coheres into a focussed argument about white as a colour. That said, there is so much of interest, that you can forgive this (inevitable?) short-coming.

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wootube,

@ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon I remember being told that white wasn't a colour but that's not true. My take: 'colour' is something the human eye and brain creates from and mix of light frequencies. White is a mixture where we can't detect an 'imbalance' towards red, green or blue that isn't dark enough to be grey, but some of us detect change 'relative' to 'normal', so white is a social construct :-).
'The Dress' (and ADHD) made me explore colour theory.

wootube,

@ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon New thought: I wonder if people who get SAD are more likely to see 'absolute' colour. They see grey where I just see "dark white". I often can't see a colour cast in photos because my brain makes it the 'right' colour.

wootube,

@ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon Sadly, the shelf where I keep my unread books can't take any more weight. I'm MUCH better at buying books than reading them.

wootube,

@ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon I've always enjoyed that Newton got colour theory wrong (RYB as primary paints, a mistake we perpetuate) but I've recently been learning music theory using Newton's colours and they actually work better that 'the truth'. Models only have to be useful, not right.

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@ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon I think we should expose the mistakes of 'the greats' more, to tell people it's OK to be wrong sometimes. You can learn and carry on. I don't think Einstein was a great husband either.

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