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Re: Why do you love bley?
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Wed, 9 May 2007 18:00:38 GMT
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In lugnet.color, David Laswell wrote:
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In lugnet.color, Timothy Gould wrote:
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I’d like to see some sort of citation or evidence for this.
Isodomos has a very comprehensive colour
guide so perhaps rather than just accusing people of having malfunctioning
eyes you can back your argument up with some evidence.
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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 the Primary Blue on a color wheel. See for yourself. Or
take it to a paint shop that can color-match any sample, see if they can give
you a readout of the color spectrum involved, and have someone who really
understands the numbers side of color theory explain what it means to you.
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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 your purposes. I’d be happy to be
proved wrong but your refusal to demonstrate any real knowledge in this response
suggests I may have to wait a while. I’ve been looking through colour theory
tutorials and other resources and I’m yet to find much about cool and warm
colours except a suggestion that they are old-fashioned and outdated as a
concept.
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Plus the ones Tim listed and I find they work just as well as the old
colours with the whole range apart from yellows and yellowed white (but
perfectly fine with fresh white).
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Um, you mean fresh off-white. White ABS is never truly white.
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Considering that I have sat around tweaking rendering settings I’m well aware of
this. I’ll rephrase it for you and hope you will maintain the same high
standards in subsequent descriptions of colour. “(but perfectly fine with fresh
off-white with the pantone colour CoolGrey1C or the RGB triplet
242/355,243/255,242/255)”
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It’s impossible. Raw ABS has a somewhat milky-tan color that will necessarily
skew white a bit towards brown, which is a warm color. I worked nearly six
years for an ABS thermoforming company, and one of the customers had some
silly scheme that they thought they could save money on by using unpigmented
ABS since they were just going to paint it after delivery (ironically, or
perhaps not, the entire board of directors ended up being fired for gross
mismanagement of the company), so I have actually seen what it looks like.
It’s possible that the intended colors, as defined by the pigments used, do
not have a warm tone to them, but the plastic that they mold into parts does.
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And your point is what?
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Actually huge amounts of sane people light their homes with these. They’re
an environmentally preferable choice, last longer and use less power per
brightness level.
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No, people light their homes with ergo-friendly compact flourescent bulbs
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--snip--
Fair enough. I missed the cool-white bit.
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Considering that it is very rare that people will actually see real Lego
bricks while purchasing Lego I find this an odd theory but YMMV.
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Rare? Every local Toys”R”Us has at least five display boxes set up right now
(I’ve seen boxes for BIONICLE, Star Wars, Batman, Exo-Force, Aquaraiders, and
Ferrari recently, plus maybe a few others that I can’t recall right now),
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Do you mean the bricks contained in a translucent plastic box with coloured
background imagery and usually its own lighting or models sitting out for the
children to handle? Because if it’s the former I’m sure you’ll understand with
your excellent grasp of colour theory that the external store lighting probably
has minimal effect on what you see through the plastic.
Tim
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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 (...) (17 years ago, 10-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 (...) (17 years ago, 9-May-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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