Brown; color is weird
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中文导读
宝藏频道 Technology Connections 的高分科普：剖析为什么“棕色”并不是光谱中的物理基色，而是一种依赖环境亮度的视觉感知——本质上是在明亮背景衬托下的“暗橙色”。
为什么 HN 推它
把枯燥色彩科学讲得如同魔术般的惊艳视频。在 HN 涉及色彩空间、人眼感知等话题时被屡屡提及，几乎人人看完都会直呼神奇。
「竟然能让我聚精会神看上整整 20 分钟关于‘棕色’的视频，而且看完感觉像见证了魔法一样。」HN 网友原话：made me watch a 20 minutes videos on the color brown and makes it feel like magic
英文原摘要（HackerTube / Claude 整理）
Technology Connections explains why brown is not a spectral color but a context-dependent perception, essentially dark orange seen against brighter surroundings.
HN repeatedly recommends it as a surprisingly magical explainer on color perception, often cited in color-space discussions.
HN 上的提及
I learned from a fascinating Youtube video
Worth watching the Technology Connection video on the colour Brown
Worth watching the Technology Connection video on the colour Brown [1].
Brown is weird [1]. It's basically dark orange.
A great video demonstrating the strangeness of representing colours is this video on the colour brown