Today it dawned on me that in the second part of “Song of Strange Love,” which we posted a couple of days ago, there is one physiological-cultural aspect that would be worth clarifying. Sorry, it was just completely obvious to me.
We will talk about the phrase “red moon” that appears in the text. The point is that this is not the moon during an eclipse or some strange figure of words; this epithet regarding the moon is very stable and widespread among almost all Dzherart nationalities. Why is that? Let's figure it out!
Firstly, the color perception of Gearts is quite different from that of the genus Homo. We still have the same three types of cones, but they work somewhat differently: the sensitivity areas of “green” and “red” overlap very much, which is why in the yellow-red part of the spectrum we distinguish colors worse than the same people. But the sensitivity of our “blue” cones is much higher and reaches even the ultraviolet region, invisible to the human eye.
In short, by human standards Gearts are a little colorblind (roughly speaking, we have something like protanomaly), but we see a lot of blue and a part of the ultraviolet spectrum.
And now about the moon. Compared to sunlight, the spectrum of moonlight contains more red and less blue. Homo can observe this, for example, when the moon is low above the horizon: it looks much redder than the sun at the same height. And Geartam, with our physiological characteristics, even such a small difference in the intensity of blue is very noticeable. So to us, the moon, especially compared to the sun, does look red.
Finally, I’ll add that Gearts (again, thanks to color perception) are completely unsuitable for RGB monitors, and this is extremely unpleasant. But this is a topic, perhaps for some other post, but for now keep an approximation of how our vision differs from human vision. I think you will immediately understand where the original is and where the processed image is.
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