home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   rec.arts.sf.written      Discussion of written science fiction an      448,027 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 448,026 of 448,027   
   Cryptoengineer to Robert Carnegie   
   Re: Totally OT: See a color you've never   
   22 Feb 26 16:27:58   
   
   From: petertrei@gmail.com   
      
   On 2/22/2026 3:23 PM, Robert Carnegie wrote:   
   > On 18/02/2026 02:54, Cryptoengineer wrote:   
   >> This is cool. It uses cone bleaching and after images to create a   
   >> color in your eyes you've never seen.   
   >>   
   >> Not SF, but this is the nearest thing to The   
   >> Color Out of Space I've ever encountered.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> https://youtu.be/Q6jyq_RY8i8   
   >> Showing you a color you’ve never seen before.   
   >> Channel: A Brush with Bekah   
   >>   
   >> The whole channel is worth browsing. She makes   
   >> paints using classical recipes, and explains   
   >> their history. Want to see actual Uranium   
   >> Yellow, Arsenic Green, Vermilion, ultramarine,   
   >> and Royal Purple?   
   >   
   > Now what's that short story, possibly on Mars,   
   > where it's determined that a sense which the   
   > aliens have and humans don't, can be given by   
   > stimulating a certain part of the brain -   
   > to appreciate an alien performed art form -   
   > but the stimulation is destructive.   
   >   
   > Obviously, a human undergoes the process,   
   > appreciates the art form, and then regrets   
   > that they now can never experience it again.   
   >   
   > I don't think it's "A Nose For Ecclesiastes".   
      
   The Secret Sense, by Asimov.   
      
   pt   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca