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Let's stop for a moment to appreciate what this means for us. It means we can identify //"a mixture of red and blue"// | Let's stop for a moment to appreciate what this means for us. It means we can identify //"a mixture of red and blue"// | ||
- | **kavkema** have four basic colour perceptions of spectral colours: | + | However, |
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+ | Let's assume for the sake of simplicity that their // | ||
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+ | The kavkema do not only have the //line of purples// - there are other dimensions to their colour perception! Here is a table of the combinations, | ||
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+ | ^ //valek// ^ //oso// ^ //idi// ^ //s̈elet// ^ spectral ^ Kendane͡ivash ^ English (kavkem) ^ English (human) ^ | ||
+ | | x | | ||
+ | | | x | | ||
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+ | | x | x | | ||
+ | | | x | x | | yes | osodi | green | turquoise | | ||
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+ | | x | | ||
+ | | x | | x | x | no | ::: | ::: | ::: | | ||
+ | | x | x | | x | no | ::: | ::: | ::: | | ||
+ | | | x | | x | no | **sos̈et** | ||
+ | | x | | x | | no | **validi** | red-turquoise | magenta | | ||
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+ | We derive that there are three imaginary lines of colour, of which we can unfortunately only imagine one: | ||
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+ | * Colours around **vals̈et** correspond in //quale// to our 'line of purples' | ||
+ | * Colours around **sos̈et** have no human correspondence, | ||
+ | * Colours around **validi** also have no human correspondence, | ||
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+ | You may have noticed that the table combined three distinct colour sensations into one colour quale: | ||
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+ | ^ //valek// ^ //oso// ^ //idi// ^ //s̈elet// ^ spectral ^ Kendane͡ivash ^ English (kavkem) ^ English (human) ^ | ||
+ | | x | | ||
+ | | x | | x | x | no | ::: | ::: | ::: | | ||
+ | | x | x | | x | no | ::: | ::: | ::: | | ||
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+ | This is because the last two variants of // | ||
===== Hue Modifiers ===== | ===== Hue Modifiers ===== | ||
- | vas̈'- | + | Due to the way kavkem colour names were derived |
- | zys̈'- | + | |
- | Example, using the range of **valek**: | + | The language has the prefixes |
- | {{: | + | Using **valek** as an example: |
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+ | | {{: | ||
+ | |1 | | ||
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+ | The qualia range of //valek// reaches from red to orange. Were you to use //valek// without any qualifiers, it can be any of those colours - or, if you are assumed as being specific about it, it will convey a red-orange hue, about where the 2 is in our example. | ||
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+ | If you wanted to specifically refer to //red//, you would use the term **vas̈' | ||
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+ | If you wanted to specifically refer to //orange//, you would use the term **zys̈' | ||
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+ | But wait! | ||
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+ | Not all colours are spectral, as we already know. What about **vals̈et**? | ||
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+ | * **zys̈' | ||
+ | * **vas̈' | ||
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+ | // | ||
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+ | However, a firing cone adjacent to another cone amplifies its signal in ' | ||
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+ | Returning to our mysterious three-row entry in the qualia table, and assuming that a firing cone adjacent to another cone amplifies its signal in ' | ||
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+ | ^ //valek// ^ //oso// ^ //idi// ^ //s̈elet// ^ spectral ^ Kendane͡ivash ^ English (kavkem) ^ | ||
+ | | x | | ||
+ | | x | | x | x | no | zys̈' | ||
+ | | x | x | | x | no | vas̈' | ||
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+ | Of course, the overall energy reaching the eye is greater in the two latter cases, which also has an effect on lightness and saturation. | ||
===== Saturation Modifiers ===== | ===== Saturation Modifiers ===== | ||
- | amur'ini | + | The kavkem language has **saturation modifiers** as well. |
- | amur' | + | |
- | amur' | + | They would not think to use the word ' |
- | amur' | + | |
+ | Instead, their word for saturation derives from **heavy** (//muri//) the more //heavy// a colour, the more it displaces the other spectral colours. | ||
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+ | The modifier word itself - //amur// - is a linguistic opposite of this concept, and we will translate it as //diluted// (or //pale//, even if 'pale' describes both saturation and lightness effects in English and we are here talking //only// about saturation effects). | ||
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+ | ^ Kendane͡ivash ^ English ^ | ||
+ | | //amur' | ||
+ | | // | ||
+ | | // | ||
+ | | //amur' | ||
+ | | //amur' | ||
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+ | The term // | ||
Example, again using **valek**: | Example, again using **valek**: | ||
- | {{: | + | | {{: |
+ | |1 | | ||
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+ | **amur' | ||
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+ | **amur' | ||
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+ | **amur valek** is roughly where the 3 in our example is - a definite red, but still rather subdued. | ||
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+ | **amur' | ||
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+ | **(amur' | ||
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+ | (**// | ||
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+ | This affects compound colours much the same way - the less they are washed out by unrelated colour components, the more '// | ||
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+ | Saturation modifiers also have some implications for // | ||
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+ | ^ //valek// ^ //oso// ^ //idi// ^ //s̈elet// ^ spectral ^ Kendane͡ivash ^ English (kavkem) ^ | ||
+ | | x | | ||
+ | | x | | x | x | no | amur' | ||
+ | | x | x | | x | no | amur' | ||
===== Lightness Modifiers ===== | ===== Lightness Modifiers ===== | ||
- | vem'- | + | Finally, kavkema have **lightness modifiers** in the form of the prefixes **vem'** and **ath'**. |
- | ath'- | + | |
Example, again using **valek**: | Example, again using **valek**: | ||
- | {{: | + | | {{: |
+ | |1 |2 | ||
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+ | The colours depicted here are, roughly speaking: | ||
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+ | ^ Position ^ Name ^ Translation ^ | ||
+ | | 1 | //izi// | black | | ||
+ | | 2 | **// | ||
+ | | 3 | //valek// | red | | ||
+ | | 4 | **// | ||
+ | | 5 | //zel// | white | | ||
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+ | In regards to physical phenomena, positions 1 to 3 are the only in the example that truly involve lightness. Position 3 is as light as red can get - there are no dark components to the colour. The colours between positions 3 to 5 are technically an increased lightness of //all other// spectral colours - in other words, a change of saturation. | ||
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+ | Given the kavkema sensitivity to lightness, however, the importance to them is indeed the overall power delivered to the retina. When red can no longer increase in lightness, the lightness of the colour impression can be increased with the other spectral colours. | ||
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+ | This of course harkens back to our favourite mystery colour, // | ||
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+ | ^ //valek// ^ //oso// ^ //idi// ^ //s̈elet// ^ spectral ^ Kendane͡ivash ^ English (kavkem) ^ | ||
+ | | x | | ||
+ | | x | | x | x | no | amur' | ||
+ | | x | x | | x | no | amur' | ||
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+ | ===== Combining the modifiers ===== | ||
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+ | Generally speaking, any order of combinations is understood and describe the same colours, except where local dialect has defined otherwise. The ' | ||
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+ | **[amur...] [ath'/ | ||
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+ | The default modifiers that are assumed if none of a particular type are supplied are: | ||
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+ | ^ Modifier ^ Default ^ Meaning ^ | ||
+ | | //amur// | // | ||
+ | | //ath' / vem'// | neither | regular - neither light, nor dark | | ||
+ | | // | ||
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+ | Examples: | ||
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+ | ^ Example ^ Translation ^ Meaning ^ | ||
+ | | //valek// | red | fully saturated (implied) red | | ||
+ | | // | ||
+ | | // | ||
+ | | // | ||
+ | | // | ||
+ | | // | ||
+ | | // | ||
+ | | //amur ath' | ||
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+ | ===== Scientific colours ===== | ||
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+ | Spectral colour //ranges// also have **scientific names**. With the exception of //valek//, each primary colour of the kavkem qualia (//valek//, //oso//, //idi// and // | ||
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+ | ^ scientific term ^ wavelength ^ associated quale ^ | ||
+ | | banthu | ~500 to ~700 nm | valek | | ||
+ | | tasath | ~400 to ~600 nm | oso | | ||
+ | | venthu | ~300 to ~500 nm | idi | | ||
+ | | edath | ~200 to ~400 nm | s̈elet | | ||
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+ | The ~100 nm overlap implies that the colours must be shared between terms. And indeed, formally, //oso// is still in the //banthu// band, although near the edge, whereas it is closer to the center of the //tasath// band. Similarly, //idi// is still n the //tasath// band, but much more central in the //venthu// band. //s̈elet// manages to almost escape // | ||
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+ | {{: | ||
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+ | The scientific terms are typically used when talking about the colour cones themselves, as theoretical absorption bands - they are not precisely defined by wavelength, but by the ' | ||
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+ | These terms are in use by (sufficiently literate) kavkema and local Threadwielders, |
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