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Captain Disillusion3 HN recommenders · 2020–2021
2.9M views · explainer · evergreen · Uploaded 2020-08-18

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

@umvi2020 · in “Impossible Colors”

I highly recommend this Captain Disillusion video about color if you want to learn more about color theory: [VIDEO] You may have to watch the video multiple times though, because the information comes out of a firehouse.

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@Leszek2020 · in “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: [VIDEO]

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@zinekeller2021 · in “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 ( [VIDEO] ) and Technology Connections has a discussion ( [LINK] ).

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@myself2482021 · in “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: [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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