No? Oh well.
Anyway, check out this intense mastery of your sensory perception!
Woohoo!
You don't get it do you?
I just made you see blue! I did that. I just momentarily took control of your brain!
No?
Ok, let me explain.
So, in the real world what would happen is you would look at a piece of wood thats actually in front of your face. White light (from a bulb or the sun) would hit the wood and everything but the blue light would get absorbed by the wood and the blue light would be left to bounce off. And so, since your eye is aimed at the piece of wood, your eye is collecting the light that just bounced off the wood. Cool, huh? You wait, that was just the physics.
Ok, in our real world example, your eye just caught some blue light. It just stays bouncing around in there forever, right? WRONG. We all have these neat little structures dispersed around the back of our eye that are designed to be sensitive to specific types of light. Rods and Cones, you've probably heard of them. The Rods pick up light intensity, how bright something is. (They're the ones that leave that little white dot when you look at a camera flash) they work kind of like those "Measure Your Strength" carnival games.
Was I right? Just like the carnival game. The the light hits the Rod and the rod says how bright it is. DING
The Cones are responsible for telling the different colors apart. Guess what? There are three different types of Cones! (First person to correctly tell me what the three different types of Cones are responsible for in the comments below will get a custom antiqued mirror a'la Elizabeth)
After the light hits the rods and cones they send the information along a series of small nerves to the main optic nerve of each eye. Watch out for those blind spots. Those nerves meet up at a little junction called the optic chiasm and split into two parts. So now we have light information about a single image broken up into four parts. Two parts, two eyes, two plus two is four, yes? Ok, moving along. Your brain takes those four parts to four different places in your brain for processing.
Once all that is processed, your brain sends the processed information to other parts of your brain. When it gets to the linguistic center you may say to yourself, "that's a nice blue". When it gets to the memory center it might bring up that episode of The X-Files when the guy with brain cancer kept saying "cerulean" until a police officer drove into a semi-truck.
Anyway, I TOTALLY just hijacked your brain.
And I'm going to do it again.
I made you see red!
Here's another one. What do blue and red make?
Purple!!
Um, oh yeah. This is a blog about my awesome stuff. What in the hey does all this have to do with all my stuff?
Well, those colors are actually wood stains that I made. Yeah that's right, Minwax doesn't have purple wood stain but I do.
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