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Re: US Road System (was Re: Ldraw cannon)
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Thu, 12 Nov 1998 03:02:13 GMT
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wvw@earthlink.net (De Bengel) writes:
> In a town in Holland (Zoetermeer), they made a new part where all the
> roads are color-coded. You have a blue quadrant, a red quadrant, etc.
> So the road between the blue and red is called the 'blue-red street'.
> And within the green quadrant you have the (I made these up, for I
> don't know the english equivalents) moss-green street, the basil-green
> street, etc. I never knew there were so many names for different
> shades of red/blue/yellow/green. Not all that practical, but I'm sure
> it looked cute on the proposal.
Seriously?! That's so great to hear!!! One thing we're looking at for the
LUGNET community map(s) is color-coding the boundary markers for a sense of
overall location. Numbers alone just don't cut it.
At first it was going to be four main directional gradients -- West=Yellow,
East=Blue, North=Red, South=Green...with the intensity fading to white the
farther away you got from the center.
But the color mixing code for that was gunky, so now what it does is takes
the cartesian coordinates and converts them to polar coordinates, then
converts the angle (theta) to a hue on the rainbow (red, yellow, orange,
green, blue, purple) and uses the distance from the origin (rho) to modify
the hue into a tone -- black at the center, increasing slowly up to full-on
color at about 15 squares out, then increasing slowly up to full-on white
about 30 squares out.
In the end, I think it works well, and it's fun to navigate around in it.
(Demo coming maybe later this week if people are interested...)
I'm wicked surprised (but in a happy way) to hear that some area of the real
world actually did this with color mixing! So you say that moss-green
street is actually given by a slightly different color of paint on the sign
compared to basil-green street? Or do they just vary the names and not the
pigments in the paints?
> The street I really like is in Utrecht, the one that the university is
> on, called (loose translation) 'The road to wisdom'
That's pretty cool! Does it have an associated color?
--Todd
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| (...) They just vary the names. All signs are blue with white lettering. I don't know if there is a sysyem in the color names. My knowledge of those names is almost non-existant so I don't know if a green-street near the blue quadrant has a blue-hue (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) <snip> (...) In a town in Holland (Zoetermeer), they made a new part where all the roads are color-coded. You have a blue quadrant, a red quadrant, etc. So the road between the blue and red is called the 'blue-red street'. And within the green (...) (26 years ago, 11-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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