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Stop Colour Theory

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Re: Stop Colour Theory

#11

Post by ibelievethings »

notriddle wrote: post #5

> Violet occupies the highest frequency of the visible light spectrum with a whopping frequency of 668-789THz6. With such a tremendous frequency, you would expect violet to be everywhere - but in reality, it's not found in the natural world with great prevalence. Lavender, eggplant, grape flavoured NerdsTM, and amethysts are among the few naturally occuring violet things. This is a parody, isn't it? Because "frequenc…

> Also, grape flavoured NERDS don't occur in nature.

Have you looked in the mirror?

Re: Stop Colour Theory

#14

Post by kevin_thibedeau »

Jimbo3 wrote: post #9
notriddle wrote: post #5

> Violet occupies the highest frequency of the visible light spectrum with a whopping frequency of 668-789THz6. With such a tremendous frequency, you would expect violet to be everywhere - but in reality, it's not found in the natural world with great prevalence. Lavender, eggplant, grape flavoured NerdsTM, and amethysts are among the few naturally occuring violet things. This is a parody, isn't it? Because "frequenc…

Little purple crunchy fellas? Yeah I've seen them out hiking in Oregon

Bummed because his Pop Rocks buddy suicided in the rain.

Re: Stop Colour Theory

#16

Post by georgeecollins »

oraknabo wrote: post #10

This has to be a joke. If not, the writer seems to be confused by the difference between additive & subtractive color systems. I admit to not really having any idea what they are getting at in their proposed replacement system and don't see any way it could be helpful in predicting how colors mix in either paint or monitors.

Right, you say additive and subtractive, I think of it as emmissive colors vs reflective colors. That point seems to get ignored.

Some of this is interesting-- like every color is a frequency. But human vision systems are probably not innately tuned to perceive every frequency along a chunk of spectrum with an equal weight. Training and cognition probably influence our acuity in certain parts of the range.

Re: Stop Colour Theory

#17

Post by notriddle »

ibelievethings wrote: post #11
notriddle wrote: post #5

> Violet occupies the highest frequency of the visible light spectrum with a whopping frequency of 668-789THz6. With such a tremendous frequency, you would expect violet to be everywhere - but in reality, it's not found in the natural world with great prevalence. Lavender, eggplant, grape flavoured NerdsTM, and amethysts are among the few naturally occuring violet things. This is a parody, isn't it? Because "frequenc…

> Also, grape flavoured NERDS don't occur in nature. Have you looked in the mirror?

I am not a nerd. Nerds are smart.

Re: Stop Colour Theory

#19

Post by smrq »

notriddle wrote: post #5

> Violet occupies the highest frequency of the visible light spectrum with a whopping frequency of 668-789THz6. With such a tremendous frequency, you would expect violet to be everywhere - but in reality, it's not found in the natural world with great prevalence. Lavender, eggplant, grape flavoured NerdsTM, and amethysts are among the few naturally occuring violet things. This is a parody, isn't it? Because "frequenc…

I wasn't sure whether I was reading parody or mild Time Cube insanity until I got to this bit.
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