Indigo and Umami

[Pat Mathews]

Actually the colors are or, argent, gules, vert, azul, purpure, and sable.


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> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:07:18 -0500
> To: brin-l at mccmedia.com
> From: ronn_blankenship at bellsouth.net
> Subject: Re: Indigo and Umami
> 
> At 03:14 PM Tuesday 7/22/2008, Julia Thompson wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Mauro Diotallevi wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 10:04 PM, William T Goodall
> > > <wtg at wtgab.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > >> There used to be seven colours in a rainbow and four basic flavours
> > >> (sweet, sour, bitter, salt) and then indigo became a shade of violet
> > >> and umami became the fifth basic flavour.
> > >
> > > I thought that there were still 7 colors of the rainbow *including*
> > > indigo.  I learned the colors as ROY G BIV -- Red Orange Yellow Green
> > > Blue Indigo Violet.
> > >
> > > Or did you learn a different system?
> >
> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigo
> >
> >"Color scientists do not usually recognize indigo as a significant color
> >category, and generally classify wavelengths shorter than about 450 nm as
> >violet."
> >
> >Also, there's a source text from the 19th century at Wikipedia on this
> >very question; the tinyurl for it is http://tinyurl.com/5f8afl
> >
> >My resident color expert says it's just a word game.  :)  Then again, he
> >knows more about color *science* than color *words*.
> >
> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow#The_place_of_indigo
> >"All the Roy G. Biv mnemonics follow the tradition of including the colour
> >indigo between blue and violet. Newton originally (1672) named only five
> >primary colours: red, yellow, green, blue and violet. Only later did he
> >introduce orange and indigo, giving seven colours by analogy to the number
> >of notes in a musical scale. Some sources now omit indigo, because it
> >is a tertiary color and partly due to the poor ability of humans to
> >distinguish colours in the blue portion of the visual spectrum."
> >
> >My kids' crayon boxes have red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet; if
> >you buy a box of 8 crayons, you get all those but not indigo.  I
> >personally conform to the crayon box school of "rainbow colors".
> >
> >(Oh, and Resident Color Expert warns that magenta, pink and brown are
> >*not* rainbow colors, just in case anyone thought any of them might be, or
> >ought to be.)
> 
> 
> Magenta, however, is a secondary additive color, or a primary 
> subtractive color, along with cyan and yellow.
> 
> 
> . . . ronn!  :)
> 
> 
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