How about cyan or aqua? I have a similar color of eyes, and I sometimes use either of those to describe it.
Mine are what I'm calling grazel - sort of mix of grey and hazel.
Essentially I have the eyecolours (except red/pink of course) mixed in together and the colour varies due to light.
Mine are what I'm calling grazel - sort of mix of grey and hazel.
Essentially I have the eyecolours (except red/pink of course) mixed in together and the colour varies due to light.
Can't do this without explaining how eye colours work, as there are several causes for them.I remember hearing (but someone can correct me) that while there are pure blue eyes, other pale colours like green and other various hues are actualy a combination of blue and yellow/brown bits that simply appear uniform from a distance (true in my case anyway):
Can't do this without explaining how eye colours work, as there are several causes for them.
Because of the many causes of eye colour, it can lead to weird situations if multiple factors are 'in play'. My dad has green-ish hazel eyes, my mother has blue eyes, as do my siblings, and I've got solid, dark green eyes. Eye colour is a complicated matter (and yes, I've got DNA evidence that these people are my blood relatives).![]()
Can't do this without explaining how eye colours work, as there are several causes for them.
Brown eyes are caused by large amounts of melanin in the eye (the stroma to be specific, I think); different types of brown exist and are the results of differing levels of melanin. Those shades stay constant.
Blue eyes are caused by Rayleigh scattering (the same phenomenon that makes the sky blue), due to lacking melanin in the stroma. Because it is an optical effect, and not something caused by a particular type of pigment, it differs in different lights.
Amber (aka yellow) eyes are caused by the pigment known as lipochrome; amber eyes are rather solid in hue and do not change. Not to be confused with hazel.
Green eyes are caused by Rayleigh effect and either more-than-blue amounts of melanin or the presence of lipochrome; because of this multitude of factors they are subject to lighting conditions to varied degrees and can be either solid or splotchy.
Green eyes are rarer overall than blue eyes because of this, but can also be found in a larger area.
Hazel is caused by medium amounts of melanin; it's also somewhat dependant on light and usually very splotchy.
Grey eyes are possibly caused by a pigmentation or a type of light scattering. I don't know, I'm law student.
Because of the many causes of eye colour, it can lead to weird situations if multiple factors are 'in play'. My dad has green-ish hazel eyes, my mother has blue eyes, as do my siblings, and I've got solid, dark green eyes. Eye colour is a complicated matter (and yes, I've got DNA evidence that these people are my blood relatives).![]()
Eye color comes down to three factors: one, melanin (brown) pigmentation, two, lipochrome (yellow) pigmentation, and three, Rayleigh or Mie light scattering due to turbidity in the stroma (the front part of the iris).
Eyes without pigmentation can be blue or gray, depending on whether Rayleigh scattering dominates (less turbidity -- blue) or Mie scattering dominates (more turbidity -- gray).
Eyes with only lipochrome pigment can be amber or green, depending on the turbidity of the stroma (less turbidity -- green, more turbidity -- amber).
Eyes with lipochrome pigment plus a small amount of melanin pigment are hazel, and eyes with a lot of melanin pigment are brown.
So if there were no blue eyes, there would probably be no gray eyes either. Let's say that lipochrome concentrations never go to zero. Then people who are blue-eyed would be green-eyed, and people who are gray-eyed would be amber-eyed instead (assuming that stroma turbidity and melanin concentration are unchanged from OTL).
Possibly so; a translation of the Iliad I read recently rendered her epithet as "grey-eyed Athena" (this is Robert Fitzgerald's English translation). Could someone who knows ancient Greek comment on this? (I'm assuming we have such a person, because AH.com is awesome).