darkSpyro

Also looks more rectangular to me.

Are you sure it's really red? Is there a method for verifying that, or a certain wavelength of radiation that is assigned to the color red? I know that 625-750 nm is the common approximation, but there's a vast (20%) difference between those two extremes.
And what happens when you approach either extreme? For instance, can the human eye reliably tell the difference between wavelengths of 624 nm and 625 nm? Are you supposed to be able to tell which one is red and which one isn't?

Even if you could, human color vision isn't always accurate or uniform. For example, to a person with severe red-green colorblindness that square might be indistinguishable from a green square, and in a similar manner, it's not entirely unfathomable to think that maybe no two human beings really perceive colors the exact same way. What if your red isn't the same as mine?

And not only that! What if my computer screen's visual settings differ from yours? Or maybe the light in my room is slightly tinted, which could make the color of the square look different relative to it. How do I know that the square I'm seeing is at all like the square that you assumed I would be seeing?

There are entirely too many variables to take into account, and so I propose a much more scientifically accurate way of describing color by simply approximating the wavelength of the radiation reflected/shone by the object in question, instead of relying on our inaccurate sensory organs to make the distinction.

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Are you sure it's really red? Is there a method for verifying that, or a certain wavelength of radiation that is assigned to the color red? I know that 625-750 nm is the common approximation, but there's a vast (20%) difference between those two extremes.
And what happens when you approach either extreme? For instance, can the human eye reliably tell the difference between wavelengths of 624 nm and 625 nm? Are you supposed to be able to tell which one is red and which one isn't?

Even if you could, human color vision isn't always accurate or uniform. For example, to a person with severe red-green colorblindness that square might be indistinguishable from a green square, and in a similar manner, it's not entirely unfathomable to think that maybe no two human beings really perceive colors the exact same way. What if your red isn't the same as mine?

And not only that! What if my computer screen's visual settings differ from yours? Or maybe the light in my room is slightly tinted, which could make the color of the square look different relative to it. How do I know that the square I'm seeing is at all like the square that you assumed I would be seeing?

There are entirely too many variables to take into account, and so I propose a much more scientifically accurate way of describing color by simply approximating the wavelength of the radiation reflected/shone by the object in question, instead of relying on our inaccurate sensory organs to make the distinction.

I could prove this easily with MS Paint.

Prove what? Is MS paint red the "official" red upon which all other observations are based?

him square alright