Re: YASFID strange color

On Sun, 20 Apr 2025 10:03:20 -0400 (EDT), kludge@panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) wrote:

In article <pan$8287b$9f14df55$976a4592$4c1d29e3@cpacker.org>,
Charles Packer  <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:

This news item about a "color no one has seen before"
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/apr/18/scientists-claim-to-have-found-colour-no-one-has-seen-before
(or https://tinyurl.com/3hmdzjmk )
brought to mind a short story from no later than 1956 about something
similar, except that, as I recall, it was an attribute of some
kind of object.

>
The Colour From Out of Space by Lovecraft.

I don't normally do this but, as it happens, I recently saw a film
based on the story that I really liked:
<https://www.amazon.com/review/R3M5UVI9YLBC4D/ref=cm_cr_srp_d_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8>

These films all face (or faced?) a similar problem: how do you show,
on the silver screen, a color that is different from all known colors?
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"