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Re: Its starting to happen...
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lugnet.color
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Mon, 9 Apr 2007 13:20:52 GMT
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In lugnet.color, David Laswell wrote:
> In lugnet.color, David Eaton wrote:
> > I appreciate that people probably want a "clean" solution to the problem, but
> > the issue is that the color change is so ridiculously subtle for light gray
> > (and pretty darn close for brown and dark gray) that it simply *IS*
> > confusing. Even seasoned Lego fans who know about the difference sometimes
> > have a hard time telling the colors apart. The problem is confusing, so any
> > solution is going to be have to be confusing too.
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> That's a bit of a generalization, I'd say. I can peg dark-grey vs. dark-bley
> every time, regardless of the lighting (well, as long as there is some, that
> is), and I'm very accurate with light-grey vs. light-bley under flourescent
> lighting and pretty good under incandescent (though I always check it against a
> reference when I can). Now, I don't have enough experience with reddish-brown
> to know how good I am at differentiating them, but I think I'd be pretty
> accurate. Of course, I used to sort Rosco gels by eye when I was doing theatre
> work in college, so I might have a more developed sense of color than most.
I only have trouble with the light greys. Dark Bley is an obviously different
color to my eyes, and blown is different enough to be noticeable in most light-
but the light greys give me fits even in sunlight. :-(
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| (...) Try flourescent lighting sometime. I'm thoroughly convinced that any focus groups that might have been asked about the bleys vs. greys had to have been shown the different colors under standard cool-white flourescent lighting like you'd find (...) (18 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.color)
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| (...) That's a bit of a generalization, I'd say. I can peg dark-grey vs. dark-bley every time, regardless of the lighting (well, as long as there is some, that is), and I'm very accurate with light-grey vs. light-bley under flourescent lighting and (...) (18 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.color)
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