File talk:Color mind.svg

Note about the central gap

[Edit: I changed my username from SharkD to datumizer if you are confused.] The hole in the middle was added as something of an afterthought (or, rather, for practical reasons in the context of color science). Originally, all the lines met at the exact center with no gap separating them. This in my opinion was actually a much better example of a "singularity" than an empty hole, since in this former case many many coordinates (in the spherical coordinate system, all coordinates with zero radius) would then occupy or struggle to occupy the same three-dimensional space--an impossibility, physically, and useless for a color model. The point might thus have represented a point of maximal spiritual "conflictedness", and could as a result have been at odds with the notion of "bindu" in religious drawings and elsewhere. (I don't really know, honestly.) I also thought this was kind of like a black hole (another type of singularity) where what happens in the exact center in my understanding is not really explainable using physics. datumizer ☎ 03:51, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

The bottom arrow should maybe also properly point up. (Cannot remember.) datumizer ☎ 16:18, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

Anyway, I no longer think this image is the type of thing that belongs on Wikimedia Commons. Maybe DeviantArt instead. datumizer ☎ 16:20, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

I uploaded a version that is closer to what the idea was originally like. datumizer ☎ 09:01, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

In this version maybe the word "self-loathing" should be removed. Maybe "loathing" of any kind should only appear at the top of the axis. It's hard to pick the right words. datumizer ☎ 01:43, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

It's hard to tell right now where the grays in the image are due to how the colors are rendered by the software. datumizer ☎ 00:30, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Let me explain what happened a second time. The hole in the middle was added as something of an afterthought (or, rather, for practical reasons in the context of color science). Originally, when I first envisioned the model (and the metaphor itself, nearly simultaneously) all of the radiating lines met at the exact center with no gap in the middle. It was pointed out to me later here on Wikipedia, however, that having all the colors in the model with zero saturation coalesce at a single point was useless in the context of color science, since there is no benefit to a color model or color space where a large number of coordinates cannot be discerned from one another visually. Adding the hole solved this problem by pushing the zero-saturated colors outward so that they were once again visible/distinguishable. I slapped on the "emptiness" and "bindu" labels to the "Color Mind" illustration afterward to justify/explain this. ... However, now I think the overlap of points in the center of the (original version of the) model was a good idea, and that it was a pretty good example of a singularity, and maybe even a "bindu" like in a yantra or mandala. But the idea of so many points overlapping in the middle definitely conflicts with the idea of there being "emptiness" in the middle. Sorry if you're having difficulty puzzling all this out. datumizer ☎ 01:19, 25 January 2021 (UTC)