Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul S Person Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: YASFID strange color Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2025 09:29:22 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 26 Message-ID: <9n7a0klgchoc30pm0i0qb5hv87jgb2ge5m@4ax.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2025 18:29:25 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="56751586c98094faa8f8ccd5f7abfbb2"; logging-data="202719"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19vSISEgD8g5DdcH4tUGxjkSheEPt0mOR4=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:zajk+q3nS3BAivFG07Fuy4ALaRk= Bytes: 2095 On Sun, 20 Apr 2025 10:03:20 -0400 (EDT), kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote: >In article , >Charles Packer wrote: >>This news item about a "color no one has seen before"=20 >>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/apr/18/scientists-claim-to-hav= e-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: 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? --=20 "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino, Who evil spoke of everyone but God, Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"