Light and the way it
reacts with (or to) us has always been
interesting to me.
My interest in light started a long time ago, but
still interests me. I have
done the "prism" experiment when we
split white light into it's rainbow
configuration or spectrum more than once. Red has
the slow vibrational
frequency and violet vibrates much faster, but
you may already know that.
What
was more interesting to me was when I used a
popular 3d imaging
program to simulate and experiment with different
color lights and objects.
It was then that I figured out that certain light
colors had opposite or "polar
opposites" that cancel out or neutralize
those certain colors. I tried to
duplicate the effect in reality with light bulbs
and LED lights, but with almost
disappointing results. I quickly figured out that
in order to cancel out any
one specific color, you need to be in more
control of both the INTENSITY
and tint or HUE. Thats not easy with bulbs and
LED's without filters.
Surgeons and nurses know that when you are seeing
the color red, like
blood, for instance, that if you happen to glance
up, or look away from
the red, you see blue-green spots! So, some
intellligent person figured
out how to get around that. Just make anything
you look at, like the
walls in the room and also uniforms, the same
color as the spots when
you look away from the red. Then the spots are
not visable. The polar
opposite color of red (or crimson) happens to be
a certain shade of
blue-green. A different country in the world just
decided to make their
uniforms red, so that their eyes, or more
appropriately, their brain did
not have to compensate for a lack of seeing red,
because the uniforms
or other colors were already red. I learned
through experimentation
why color works like that.
All colors that
I have experimented with work like that. There
are some
things that I have not mentioned though. I know
the brain tries to
compensate by making us see the opposite color
when we look away.
Have you ever watched a three-dimensional movie
in the red/blue or
blue/red anaglyph method? I have because I have
made several small
test videos in that format and I have a very
small "library" of those
movies on VHS. If you wear the glasses (red-blue
or blue-red) for
just a minute or two and then take them of, your
brain (probably the
visual cortex) causes you to see polar-opposite
colors for just a few
seconds. I mentioned that I used to make short
movies using the
anaglyph format. :) I have done a lot of
experimenting. This is just how
light and the properties of light work.
So, the part I
have left out is that when you have not used the
glasses
and don't stress your visual cortex, that certain
shade of red LIGHT
and specific shade (polar opposite) which is a
BLUE-GREEN, when
combined to the same point cancel each other out
and appear GRAY.
My interest did
not stop there. I tried other colors. Purple and
yellow,
because a photography class taught me that purple
neutralizes yellow.
I was puzzled, because I found that to be
incorrect. Yellow and purple
did not cancel each other out. Many years later,
another photography
student I was working with, but at a restaraunt (
yes we are a diverse
group) said that he was taught the same thing in
school. The problem
was, in my experiments (I decided to do it many
times to make sure)
proved to me that a certain shade of purple was
only nuetralized (it
turned medium gray) by adding a certain shade of
GREEN to it.
Here's what used
to make me shout and start laughing. MOST of the
people who I tell that RED and GREEN make YELLOW,
tell me
that I am crazy, because they remember mixing
PAINT as a child.
I tell them that if the then add BLUE, it becomes
WHITE. They laugh
at me hysterically, but I just try to remind them
that without red green
and blue, you wouldn't get a bright white on your
television screen
or computer monitor. They just laugh....I tell
them that they need to
take a magnifying glass and look at the pixel and
see that are really
only three colors on the screen and they say,
"Whatever, Dave..."
It is not as
easy as I thought to teach people the way color
and other
vibrational energy frequencies react or are
perceived.
Perhaps, I will
add some images here soon. Until then, a lot of
people
need to do some experimenting, and stop laughing
at people who do
and really understand what they are talking
about. The world will be
a more peacefull place for us all to live in,
where we are limited
in what we actually see. Our vision sees only a
speck of what is there.
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