CD / Color
Captain Disillusion3 HN recommenders · recommended in 3 months, 2020–2021
explainer · general · evergreen · 2020–2021 on HN
Captain Disillusion's comedic, fast-paced explainer on how color works in cameras, displays and video. It covers the biology of color perception and what it means for screens.
Commenters recommend it as a dense but entertaining primer on color theory and color in video systems.
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4 comments from Hacker News
For A/V stuff, I went looking for an understanding of how color works in video systems, and ran across this gem from Captain Disillusion: ▶ this video His whole channel is great, though there's not a ton there, it makes sense given the staggering amount of work that goes into the visualizations of each one.
I highly recommend this Captain Disillusion video about color if you want to learn more about color theory: ▶ this video You may have to watch the video multiple times though, because the information comes out of a firehouse.
This video from Captain Disillusion does a great job of explaining both the biological mechanism and the consequences it has on displays: ▶ this video
Short answer: No. We (the majority anyway, as some are colourblind) only perceive lightness, reddish, greenish, and bluish. The brain uses the info and effectively synthesises the image in our brains. Long answer: Colour is a very rabbithole topic but Captain Disillusion has a summary of it ( ▶ this video ) and Technology Connections has a discussion ( link ).