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Calaway Scholes Mrs. Schroeder ART 1800 February 6, 2016 Radio Lab Assignment Isaac Newton was one of the first people to question what colors were. In 1665, he was at home and pushed a knife into his eye to see if colors came from inside our eye or outside our eye. He then took a glass prism and placed it in front of a light beam and it created a rainbow. He derived that white light was a physical thing from his experimentation. Color is how we perceive it and all different creatures see color differently. The rainbow is made up of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. Dogs, birds, butterflies, and praying mantis shrimp would see much different rainbows than us. Each creature has a different number of receptors which determines how they view color. The more receptors, the larger range of color one sees. Scientists then tried to artificially create receptors to give monkeys the ability to see more colors. It was successful and they found a cure to colorblindness. The question was then if you could boost normal vision humans to see even more color. There are also people who have been discovered as colored mutants whom of which have more color cones. Women could have a fourth cone which would be a yellow cone. These people are called tetrachromats. People have also found color from adding water to different things. There was a paste from Cambodia that without water was an ugly brown but once you added water, it became a beautiful yellow. The order at which languages discovered color was always in the same order. It always started with black and white and then red and then blue always came last. Blue is the rarest color to find in nature....