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Old 02-06-2012, 05:17 PM
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Blue is attractive to humans because it's a somewhat rare color amongst terrestrial life forms on Earth. It's unusual, so it catches our eye faster than other colors; especially the brighter cyan/sky blue colors.

It's not as rare amongst marine organisms, though.
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Old 02-06-2012, 06:57 PM
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You forgot Liara - while nowhere near Neytiri, she's still very attractive


Blue is the perfect colour for aliens, it gives them that real attractiveness

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Blue is attractive to humans because it's a somewhat rare color amongst terrestrial life forms on Earth. It's unusual, so it catches our eye faster than other colors; especially the brighter cyan/sky blue colors.

It's not as rare amongst marine organisms, though.
This. It's also the most common colour for people to have some form of liking it, as well as one of the most common favourite colours, and in terms of atmosphere, can convey a lot more different meanings than others.

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I think the colour blue is something that catches attention, like how annoying blue power LEDs are for instance. Blue light in particular is really disruptive to eyes for some reason. Maybe we can get some scientific input from someone who has experience and or knowledge from that sort of thing.
Short wavelength, and Earth's sun is relatively lacking in the blue part of the spectrum compared to red/yellow. That makes it quite noticeable in quantity.
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Old 02-06-2012, 07:27 PM
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Short wavelength, and Earth's sun is relatively lacking in the blue part of the spectrum compared to red/yellow. That makes it quite noticeable in quantity.
What is it exactly that makes star a certain spectrum when it comes to visible light? Also considering that it's such a short part of the radiation spectrum to begin with. Our sun just happens to be of the yellow spectrum, but there are also different colour stars, and I don't know what gives each star their predetermined colour. Is it the temperature that determines the wavelength when it comes to visible light?
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Old 02-06-2012, 09:17 PM
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What is it exactly that makes star a certain spectrum when it comes to visible light? Also considering that it's such a short part of the radiation spectrum to begin with. Our sun just happens to be of the yellow spectrum, but there are also different colour stars, and I don't know what gives each star their predetermined colour. Is it the temperature that determines the wavelength when it comes to visible light?
Yes. Hotter stars emit more energetic wavelengths. Blue, purple, and UV are the higher end of the light spectrum. Also, have you noticed that you can't focus directly on a blue LED? There's something about the human brain that won't allow you to focus on a blue-only source. As for power LEDs, I like blue power LEDs, just not when they're annoyingly bright. If you have a super bright one that bothers you, just stick another 1Kohm resistor in front of it. (or cover it up with black electrical tape, whichever you prefer )

I don't really know why blue women are more attractive, maybe because blue is so... different. I'm not going to argue with a color scheme that works.

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Old 02-07-2012, 07:05 AM
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If you have a super bright one that bothers you, just stick another 1Kohm resistor in front of it. (or cover it up with black electrical tape, whichever you prefer )
Strangely enough, I have already done exactly that. The one on my monitor, speakers and case have all been covered by black electrical tape.
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Old 02-12-2012, 06:25 AM
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It is interesting how fascinated many artists and film makers seems to be of blue women. Is the girl of our dreams blue?

From the comic book Time Spirits:

LOL! Well guys you've come along way since the first days after Avatar came out. Now seems you can handle the idea of other 'blue women'. When I was the one that first found and posted that Comic Image on Avatar-Forums ...... I GOT LYNCHED for doing so, as i remember correctly :/

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Why do so many artists like blue women?
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Blue is attractive to humans because it's a somewhat rare color amongst terrestrial life forms on Earth. It's unusual, so it catches our eye faster than other colors; especially the brighter cyan/sky blue colors. .
That wouldn't have occured to me, but when you explain that actually makes the most visual sense of the explanations.
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Old 02-13-2012, 03:10 AM
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LOL! Well guys you've come along way since the first days after Avatar came out. Now seems you can handle the idea of other 'blue women'. When I was the one that first found and posted that Comic Image on Avatar-Forums ...... I GOT LYNCHED for doing so, as i remember correctly :/
It's all in the intention. In this case, you weren't trying to make some snarky point about how some obscure and probably bad comic had a similar looking character (a MASSIVE double standard, incidentally) - if people reacted against it elsewhere, I'd guess you were there.

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For a while after I first heard of Avatar (about a week or two ), I thought it was somehow related to Hinduism.
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I always knew the normal definition of an avatar before I heard of the mythological definition, my first thought was that they copied it
I didn't hear a huge amount about Avatar before I saw it (scifi, beautiful aliens, James Cameron film) - that was enough - I don't have a TV so never saw the trailer until afterwards (disadvantage of seeing everything adfree).


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I've noticed that most of these blue women happen to have yellow eyes >.>
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Contrast.
There are whole scales of how different colours interact.
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Old 02-16-2012, 05:44 PM
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I always knew the normal definition of an avatar before I heard of the mythological definition, my first thought was that they copied it
Yes exactly

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There are whole scales of how different colours interact.
>.> I was just saying that I like it. I'm a liberal arts major, I know about the color wheel.
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I know about the color wheel.
There's a WHEEL!?
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Old 02-17-2012, 05:32 PM
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There's a WHEEL!?
You should be ashamed to call yourself a liberal arts major
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