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(...) I never said there was anything wrong with liking them, just that they don't match well with tan because tan is a warm color while the bleys are unusually cool for a LEGO color. Although, given the abundance of shades and tints used in your (...) (18 years ago, 10-May-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) It has been a few years since I was actively working in theatrical lighting, I don't have ready access to my lighting design texts, I don't have the color temperature chart memorized, and I don't have access to any type of spectroscope. I (...) (18 years ago, 10-May-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) Try using a blacklight (the flourescent variety, as the incandescent types barely produce any UV). TNG lights up very brightly, while trans-yellow is just trans-yellow (unless it's the original Toa eyestalk or Kaukau mask, which are actually a (...) (18 years ago, 10-May-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) I fully understand the concept of contrasting cool/warm tones. It's one of the first things I was taught regarding theatrical lighting design (though heavily weighted with the idea that you use a strong color for the primary lights, with a (...) (18 years ago, 10-May-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) And some people from those other great nations, Myanmar and Liberia. Cheers Richie Dulin (18 years ago, 11-May-07, to lugnet.color)
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(...) This has been in the news recently. Although CF bulbs do contain up to 5 milligrams of mercury (and should be recycled) the *overall* pollution produced by the bulb manufacture and the power to light it over its lifetime is greater for (...) (18 years ago, 11-May-07, to lugnet.color)
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(...) Environmentally preferable? Why, because the lower power requirement? Then go with LEDs - at least you won't be polluting the environment with mercury when replacing your CFLs. FYI, incans are purported to quadruple in efficiency within 5-10 (...) (18 years ago, 11-May-07, to lugnet.color)
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(...) True enough. Like any color, it depends on what you are doing with it and what other colors are involved. For building a tiger, Orange would be my first choice. (18 years ago, 10-May-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) I'm not saying it doesn't... but given the outpouring of colour wisdom in this thread, I'm keen to read the explanation. (I'm sure it will be insightful and enlightening.) Cheers Richie Dulin (18 years ago, 10-May-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) Works well enough with red, white and blue and I'm pretty sure I've seen it working well with dark bley although that may have been a different orange. Tim (18 years ago, 10-May-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) Truthfully, Orange clashes with a lot of colors. Even the pretty ones. (18 years ago, 10-May-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) What reason? You seem to have come up with 'reasons' to support most of your assertions in this thread - why not this one? Cheers Richie Dulin (18 years ago, 9-May-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) (snipped) As a trained graphic designer, and self-proclaimed student of color, I would like to point out that most art instruction books, professors, and other color experts state that pairing warm and cool colors creates stronger contrast and (...) (18 years ago, 9-May-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) I think you misunderstood my request. I wanted evidence, not a description of your ability to match gels in theater work. From your response it seems to me that you have a bare minimum knowledge of colour theory which you're twisting to suit (...) (18 years ago, 9-May-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) David, are you seriously going to tell me that what I like in colors isn't correct? If so, you've got bigger issues than the color change. I used Tan with new greys in (URL) building>, for example. It's one thing for you to tell me you don't (...) (18 years ago, 9-May-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) Nope, it's warm. (...) Sand-blue and dark-blue, yes. Regular blue is warm. I haven't really checked any of the lesser shades of blue, but I doubt it would look good with Maersk-blue, and dark-bley does ugly things to medium-blue (for some odd (...) (18 years ago, 9-May-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) Well, when I was doing theatre lighting work, I was one of the few people who could color-match Rosco gels by eye. Maybe I just have an unusually well-developed eye for colors. Regardless, take a blue brick to an art store and compare it to (...) (18 years ago, 9-May-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) For me, either fluorescent light or bright sunlight work well. But just keeping the parts separate like Tim said would be a lot faster. (18 years ago, 9-May-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) I too suffer colour blindness so I have to keep them separate. This also makes it much easier when I want to build exclusively in one colour since it's already separated out. I agree it can be a pain though and I have been caught out before (...) (18 years ago, 9-May-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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All this color talk has me finally posting something I have been thinking for awhile: My biggest problem with the greys and bleys is that it is hard for me to be consistent when I want to be consistent. If I need, say, eight 1x2 plates in grey or in (...) (18 years ago, 9-May-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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