- [12:10 PM] Hālian: Help, how do I make spess elves more alien :stuck_out_tongue:
- [12:10 PM] Shagomir: blue/orange morality
- [12:10 PM] Shagomir: customs that violate human taboos
- [12:10 PM] DarthDelta: YE!
- [12:10 PM] DarthDelta: like, apostasty
- [12:10 PM] Karbrae_Ren: give them three legs
- [12:10 PM] Shagomir: weird genitals
- [12:11 PM] DarthDelta: public nudity, private clothitity
- [12:12 PM] Shagomir: different colored stoplights
- [12:12 PM] Hālian: Public nudity is already legal in Safiria. They're humanoid so weird genitals and literal third legs are a neg. Blue/orange morality... hmm, can't think of anything right now, story of my life.
- [12:12 PM] Karbrae_Ren: or a retractable tentacle that comes out of a fleshpouch in their necks which can read thoughts and they also use it for intimacy with each other
- [12:12 PM] Hālian: Yes. XD Probably blue/green/yellow or just blue/yellow instead of red(/yellow)/green.
- [12:12 PM] Hālian: No tentacles. :stuck_out_tongue: Plus they're already psychic so
- [12:12 PM] Shagomir: hmmm
- [12:12 PM] Shagomir: okay
- [12:13 PM] Shagomir: how about they use different color receptors in their eyes
- [12:13 PM] Shagomir: so they see a different gamut of colors?
- [12:13 PM] Hālian: And yeah, I was thinking instead of a separate "HEY LISTEN I'M ABOUT TO CHANGE COLOR" face, it blinks blue or yellow depending on what it's about to change to
- [12:13 PM] Karbrae_Ren: locks of flesh instead of hair
- [12:13 PM] Hālian: And they do have an expanded visual gamut, possessed as they are of six primary colors (FIR, NIR, R, G, B, UV)
- [12:13 PM] Hālian: @Karbrae_Ren No asari expy pls. :stuck_out_tongue:
- [12:13 PM] Hālian: (well, maybe not FIR)
- [12:14 PM] Shagomir: so the human eye works on a 3-axis color space. Blue-(Red+Green), Red-Green, Black-White
- [12:14 PM] Shagomir: if your guys use different color axes, it's possible they can see colors that don't exist
- [12:15 PM] Shagomir: at least as pure wavelengths of light
- [12:15 PM] Hālian: O_o
- [12:15 PM] Shagomir: similarly to how humans see purple.
- [12:15 PM] Shagomir: there is such a thing as violet light
- [12:15 PM] Shagomir: but for humans, purple is red + blue light at the same time
- [12:15 PM] Hālian: I wonder what uncolors they might see if they had blue-red/green-purple instead of blue-yellow/red-green
- [12:15 PM] DarthDelta: have eating in the view of others be taboo.
- [12:16 PM] Shagomir: You could make your traffic lights be uncolors that only a safiran can see :stuck_out_tongue:
- [12:16 PM] Hālian: and how do I integrate IR and UV light X3
- [12:17 PM] DarthDelta: have masturbation be a national pasttime
- [12:17 PM] Karbrae_Ren: the politest greeting even
- [12:18 PM] Karbrae_Ren: let us come in peace together
- [12:18 PM] Karbrae_Ren: lol that was bad
- [12:18 PM] DarthDelta: it was good.
- [12:18 PM] Shagomir: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqEgMLDS5CM
- [12:18 PM] Hālian: Bleh, I can't think of any uncolors
- [12:18 PM] DarthDelta: very good...
- [12:19 PM] Hālian: But it probably makes more sense with those axes for the "go" light to be red instead of yellow
- [12:19 PM] Karbrae_Ren: lol
- [12:19 PM] Hālian: Maybe a four-axis system? Blue-red green-purple black-white IR-UV?
- [12:20 PM] Karbrae_Ren: I need to watch some Rick & Morty it seems
- [12:21 PM] Karbrae_Ren: eyes in the palms of their hands
- [12:22 PM] Karbrae_Ren: or maybe they eat with their arses
- [12:22 PM] Hālian: No and no.
- [12:22 PM] Karbrae_Ren: bony plates protruding from the back like stegosaurus
- [12:23 PM] Hālian: No
- [12:23 PM] Karbrae_Ren: meter-long tongues
- [12:23 PM] Hālian: No, and stop asking for biological things
- [12:23 PM] Karbrae_Ren: ok
- [12:24 PM] Hālian: Or perhaps blue/green red/teal (cyan?) instead
- [12:25 PM] osswix: i hav returnd
- [12:25 PM] Hālian: wb
- [12:36 PM] Shagomir: hmm
- [12:36 PM] Shagomir: Humans have 4 receptors and 3 axes
- [12:36 PM] osswix: something tells me, i burnt my tongue somewhen(edited)
- [12:37 PM] Shagomir: I'd expect something like NIR-FIR, Red-Green, Blue-UV, IR-Yellow, (IR+Yellow)-(Blue+UV)
- [12:38 PM] Hālian: Interesting
- [12:38 PM] Shagomir: So a lot of the IR vs UV stuff would be un-colors
- [12:38 PM] Hālian: Yep
- [12:39 PM] Shagomir: but they could still see visible light colors similar to humans - unless those colors had UV or IR components
- [12:40 PM] Shagomir: "That's a nice shade of Irgreen you're wearing, but why did you pair it with that hideous Uvblue?"
- [12:40 PM] Hālian: X3
- [12:42 PM] Hālian: So since a human's color vision is red-green blue-yellow black-white, their stoplights are red-yellow-green. I think a safir's would be blue-green-red instead?
- [12:42 PM] Hālian: (or just blue-red with a face flashing when it's about to change)
- [12:43 PM] Shagomir: actually - I think they might use UV for stopping - I would think, not a lot of sources would be bright in UV
- [12:43 PM] KippLeKipp: ... the sun?
- [12:43 PM] Hālian: The sun appears white to the planetbound, iirc
- [12:44 PM] Shagomir: It could be interesting to have it be Uvred
- [12:44 PM] Shagomir: or another uncolor
- [12:44 PM] Hālian: UV-IR?
- [12:45 PM] Shagomir: sure - as a byproduct, humans see it with a purple - red tinge
- [12:46 PM] Shagomir: something like that
- [12:46 PM] Hālian: Or perhaps green from photon merging
- [12:46 PM] Hālian: And/or maybe they're UV/blue - red/IR for the benefit of people who can't see IR or UV
- [12:46 PM] Shagomir: that seems reasonable
- [12:47 PM] Hālian: I predict a lot of tourists will be getting in crashes from the whole "red means go" thing, especially if they mount stoplights "backwards" a la Japan, since they too drive on the left :stuck_out_tongue:
- [12:47 PM] Hālian: Maybe a red arrow, then, instead of a red ball
- [12:47 PM] Hālian: IDK
- [12:48 PM] Hālian: (also prohibitory signs being blue and permissive ones red)
- [12:48 PM] Shagomir: shapes would be good.
- [12:48 PM] Hālian: Yeah
- [12:48 PM] Hālian: I remember seeing a stoplight in Canada that was red square-yellow ball-green diamond or something like
- [12:49 PM] Hālian: http://i.stack.imgur.com/mdNlR.jpg
- [12:49 PM] DarthDelta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaOSCASqLsE
- [12:49 PM] Karbrae_Ren: Canada is alien
- [12:49 PM] Hālian: http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2010/11/17/sandglass_signal2.jpg I like this hourglass one too
- [12:49 PM] Hālian: and if you google "shapes traffic light" there are some other interesting ones
- [12:50 PM] osswix: oh that's cool
- [12:50 PM] Hālian: (Maybe if machine psionics is a big enough thing someone's experimented with a signal that telekinetically pulls the lead cars forward a few inches when it turns to go :P)(edited)
- [12:50 PM] osswix: in the netherlands we now have ones that count down in the amber(orange) area with white numerals so you know when it's gonna turn green
- [12:50 PM] Hālian: And I've seen draining-bar ones too, etc.
- [12:51 PM] Shagomir: nobody actually drives on my core worlds, at least in dense areas - traffic signals would be rare, and when in place would probably just be flashing caution signals instead of actually controlling cars
- [12:52 PM] Shagomir: the arcologies on Pacifica are totally grade-seperated, there are different networks for cars and trucks, bicycles and other personal transports, and pedestrians
- [12:55 PM] Shagomir: I love this channel. Haha
- [12:55 PM] Hālian: :smile: :heart: