I’m writing this post to serve as a directory for colour threads. To summarize using ROY G BIV (ROY G BIV was how they taught us to remember the colour spectrum in 1980s Canada): [image] Show us some purple organisms! So far we have threads for Red Orange Yellow Green (Doesn’t exist yet. Ever…

[image] Show us some purple organisms! Indigo (Doesn’t exist yet. Covered by the blue thread?) Apparently humans added this to the rainbow so there would be 7 colors in it. [image] AdamWargon: ROY G BIV was how they taught us to remember the colour spectrum in 1980s Canada And 2010s Am…

Ah, my favorite color: SPOTS. Also shouldn’t there be a thread for black and/or white? Or metallic?

Re: Roy G Biv, Education, in some ways, is one of the least evolved technologies. We use many of the same methods as the Romans . . . Now, with AI, things are changing rapidly, but I was hoping that they came up with something better over the last 40 years . . .

[image] austin_ajit: Shouldn’t there be a thread for black and/or white? Or metallic? Do it!

Directory for colour threads (color threads)

Nature Talk

AdamWargon June 2, 2025, 7:56pm 7

Black, white, and grey (gray):
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/black-gray-and-white-organisms/65782

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Directory for colour threads (color threads)

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