This implies that the pencils evolved the same color receptors and optical neurons that humans did
Which by far is the least concerning part of sentient pencils with arms and legs spawning offsprings in the white void?
Hey, we can’t prove they didn’t
To see a difference in saturation as less significant than a difference in hue? Yeah I guess but that doesn’t sound that unlikely for something to evolve with, especially as perceived saturation can easily be changed by a glare over the surface or something.
From a spectral perspective, there’s one that absorbs a lot of red and a bit of green (the blue one), and one that absorbs a lot of blue (the yellow one). Mixing them together, as long as particles overlap eachother and light has to travel through multiple, should result in a greenish hue. The center of the spectrum will still be in a different place from either of the parents even with more than 3 color receptors, while in the top example the center of the spectrum stays in the same space and only the ‘spread’ on the spectrum changes, even with more than 3 color receptors.
Why are the younger pencils pared-down? Do they age backwards?
oh yeah why aren’t baby pencils the larger ones
Maybe they should be tiny but unsharpened.
My sister looks white/east Asian, my brother in law, german with maybe a Korean twist. Thier kid? 1000% Korean with red hair and green eyes. Genetics
What is the punch line?
Found an explanation from Medium:
The blue pencil father suspects infidelity seeing the green baby, but green is actually the correct result of blue + yellow. He’s wrong about cheating because he doesn’t understand basic color theory.
But that would be like two black people having a blavk baby and then go: hmmmm is that right? You would assume in a pencil based society they would know that?
Maybe… that green doesn’t look like yellow or blue but is still what you get when you mix them? IDK, honestly 🤷
Yeah, I’m not sure anyone here actually knows, even that Medium article. It honestly would make perfect sense and ultimately be a mediocrely funny comic if the baby was orange and you could see the red guy in the background of the last panel. As is, without any additional dialogue or captioning, it’s too vague and open to interpretation.
Yes, that’s what I thought as well. At worst, I did not understand color theory as good as I thought. At best, the comic is just not that funny.
See, much better! Thanks Mose
Np! Also my initial thought was to use AI, then stopped myself and said, this is a pretty trivial replace color and cut/paste. Admittedly I use LLMs occasionally, but this has me thinking, maybe I should quit 100%. Something really satisfying about being able to manually manipulate photos and knowing what tools to use. Similarly, I quit copilot a while ago and I’m really starting to get comfortable with vim. Really chasing that ability to manipulate text like it’s nothing, it’s so satisfying. Idk where I’m going with this, but PSA don’t forget how to use the amazing tools around us. LLMs are overrated.
I didn’t mean for this to get deep lol
you mix yellow and blue to get green (at least elementary school usually teaches it this way)
And you mix red and white to make pink. That is not a punch line.
Admittedly pink looks a lot more like red than green does blue or yellow.
The punnet square checks out
Now do Red and Blue.
