2/ There are at least things going on w colors: * other cultures divide the spectrum up into more or fewer discrete colors * specular effects (reflectivity / glossiness / etc.) sometimes get conflated with what we would call colorhttps://clarkesworldmagazine.com/hoffman_01_13/
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13/ also, there is a tiny tiny Easter egg buried in the early part of the 2nd novel, IIRC, where the flood of Earth refugees is arriving at Aristillus that suggests that the dogs are, through cutouts, trying to hire genetic engineers with expertise on eyespic.twitter.com/reDcv0VEIg
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15/ Aristillus 3 and 4 spoilers: the two phyles of dogs, which split after the Discord (off screen post book-2) call themselves Blues and Oranges.https://twitter.com/TheLumpenprole/status/1437387673119961094 …
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17/ also, obligatory shout out to "A Deepness in the Sky" where Vinge had a very quick passing reference to the Spider's having a color called "plaid" which packed so much into one word >>>https://twitter.com/pythonrocksnake/status/1437399518568398853 …
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18/ The implication, to my mind, was some sort of incomplete-sensor-fusion effect, off in the direction of human perceptions of "impossible" or "chimerical" colorshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_color …
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19/ LOL, damnit, the "impossible color" wiki article references the Vinge book I mentioned!
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