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Captain Disillusion

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Beginner. No background in the topic needed.

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Captain Disillusion explains the physics of light, human color perception, and how digital displays and cameras reproduce color.

Please consider supporting my videos on: patreon.com/CaptainDisillusion Special Thanks to the Action Movie Kids for lending their voices! youtube.com/user/theActionMovieKid More CD/ • Intro - youtu.be/R4sF0MT1TGM • Aspect Ratio - youtu.be/g5ZgUIobSj0 • Frame Rate - youtu.be/DyqjTZHRdRs • Resolution - youtu.be/1unkluyh2Ks • Interlacing - youtu.be/1Yja9m1Lu6M ATTRIBUTION: - Keanu Reeves at the 41st American Film Festival - photo by Marybel Le Pape CC BY-SA 4.0 - Unknown Brain - Saviour (feat. Chris Linton) [NCS Release] music provided by spoti.fi/NCS

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What people say. Highly recommended as an exceptionally clear, fast-paced, and visually engaging explanation of color theory and digital imaging.

umvion Hacker News • Recommends

On “Impossible Colors”

I highly recommend this Captain Disillusion video about color if you want to learn more about color theory: link to this video You may have to watch the video multiple times though, because the information comes out of a firehouse.
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On “A toaster from 1949 is still smarter than any sold today”

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: link to 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.
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On “What Color Is This? Part 2”

This video from Captain Disillusion does a great job of explaining both the biological mechanism and the consequences it has on displays: link to this video
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On “Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [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 ( link to this video ) and Technology Connections has a discussion ( link ).
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