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Monday, December 27, 2010

Is this really it?

What if the world we think we know isn't at all how we perceive it? Color blind people could be the ones who see the world the way it actually was meant to appear. Or humans could simply be incapable of seeing the true beauty/horror of the universe. To understand what I'm saying, I can give you a small-scale example. When you read this text on a monitor or display, you're really looking at a bunch of lights. Let's say your resolution is 1600x900 like mine. Follow these steps:

1.) Find the product or your display/monitor width and height.
For me that's 1,440,000.
2.) Multiply it by 3.
For me that's 4,320,000.

That's the number of lights in your display/monitor if it's not HD.

Why?
Because each pixel in a standard quality display/monitor is composed of 3 colors (red, green, and blue).
These colors are the primary colors of light.

How can pixels be black, white, and stuff like that then?
You see the pixels as single colors unless you look closely because of optical color mixing. So to get a white pixel the red, green, and blue lights are all fully lit. Black pixels are red, green, and blue lights at their dimmest.

So you see, (no pun intended) you aren't even seeing this how it truly appears.

I hope you learned something today.