Tiresian blue
.jpg)
Tiresian blue is a hue of the color blue which is visible only during prophecy and fortune-telling events.
Description
One cannot normally perceive Tiresian blue, because it is only perceivable while genuine prophecy or fortune-telling is actually in progress.
Compare Numen and Cryptographic numen.
Commentary
Context: "Whuuuuuut?"
Yes. That is what I said at first.
Since then I have imagined other impossible colors. It takes a little getting used to, but it can be done.
Once you have a theory of impossible colors, theories about real colors become much easier.
In the News
2017: Signed first edition of Blue Foliage 2 stolen from the Walker Art Museum in New Minneapolis, Canada.
"Tyler Tork Blue" (also known as hexadecimal color code #0b9493) is a color in the teal blue range claimed by Tyler Tork on the morning of 1 June 2021.
Tiresian blue makes a cameo appearance in 2015 gothic science tragedy film Crimson Droid.
2017: Steganographic analysis of the famous Pale Blue Dot photograph unexpectedly reveals "nearly a petabyte" of encrypted data relating to Gnomon algorithm functions.
"Let's drown those meddling campers before they discover the grow room on old Mister Withers' Haunted Toilet Paper Ranch. Then let's go out for Fat Baby sandwiches."
Fiction cross-reference
- Crimson Droid
- Cryptographic numen - some cryptographic numen have been reported to glow Tiresian blue; this may be a blue version of Gray light
- Fat Baby Literary Classics
- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
- Scrying engine - commonly use Tiresian blue to indicate stochastic confidence
- Tyler Tork Blue
Nonfiction cross-reference
- 4578a1 (nonfiction)
- Blue (nonfiction)
- Blue Foliage 2 (nonfiction)
- Color (nonfiction)
- Numen (nonfiction)