Colourful Notions, a BBC Documentary about colour

farss wrote on 10/11/2012, 1:20 AM

Quite old but provocative. If you really think you understand how we see colour you might want to skip watching this because it did stand everything I thought I knew on its head.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Bob.

Comments

paul_w wrote on 10/11/2012, 7:53 AM

Gotta love Horizon, and of course its still going today.
I found that very interesting and some of the old equipment they used was great to see too. I grew up on a diet of Horizon programmes. Oh and they spelt 'colour' the right way too :)

Paul.

Laurence wrote on 10/11/2012, 10:40 AM

>Oh and they spelt 'colour' the right way too :)

Is this British spelling of "spelled" or did you mean this? ;-)

Former user wrote on 10/11/2012, 10:42 AM

So... Dr. Edwin H. Land invented the mouse -- not Steve Jobs ;-)

Arthur.S wrote on 10/11/2012, 11:51 AM

http://grammarist.com/spelling/spelled-spelt/

paul_w wrote on 10/11/2012, 12:55 PM

We say 'Spelt' not spelled here when talking about past tense spelling. You guys are always nickin' our words and messing them up! lol.

Paul.

drmathprog wrote on 10/11/2012, 12:58 PM

"You guys are always nickin' our words and messing them up! lol."

That's one interpretation. Another is that we're correcting your mistakes. ;-)

Laurence wrote on 10/11/2012, 1:30 PM

The British may have invented English, but America perfected it. ;-)

paul_w wrote on 10/11/2012, 1:34 PM

Its COLOUR! end of! haha.

Paul.

Red Prince wrote on 10/11/2012, 4:09 PM

The British took their spelling from the French. The Americans took it back to its Latin origins. As simple as that.