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Re: Colous in Lego
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lugnet.general
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Sun, 10 Oct 1999 18:11:13 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Jamie Obrien writes:
> Hi, i was just pondering some issues about colours in Lego. Mostly
> about transparents and Fluros. I've always called the transparent
> parts clear XXX, but is it more proper to call them Transparent XXX.
> Also what is the actual colour of the (almost) transparent
> windshields. I have some really clear pieces, and others with a slight
> tint of blue. I'm presuming they are 2 seperate colours. Are they?
Yes, there's clear clear, and there's transparent dark blue that you see
in Space and Aquazone and more recently in Extreme Team, and then there's
a transparent light blue that's been in Town for years and years. Also,
I believe (but I'm not 100% positive) that there may actually be two shades
of transparent light blue -- but they're hard to tell apart, and it might
just be due to the thickness of the plastic.
> One last thing. Is the Fluro Green actually Fluro Green, or Fluro
> Yellow?
It's kind of both. When you see the color on a flat surface, like a large
clipboard that they give away at tradeshows, then it's very much yellow and
very little green. But when the light changes direction at corners and bend-
points in the plastic, then the wavelength seems to change to a yellowish
green. The most accurate name for it might be something like Transparent
Fluorescent Chartreuse, of course that's too unweildy. (Merriam Webster,
BTW, defines chartreuse as "a variable color averaging a brilliant yellow
green." :-)
The transparent fluorescent orange is also bi-colored. At times it seems
like a red, but when it's "lit," it's obviously bright orange and not red.
> ( and do we need to add transparent/clear to the colour name
> when describing them?)
I certainly would. There has been at least one non-transparent fluorescent
color so far: orange, in 1998, on the Town/ResQ theme torsos. It's entirely
possible (although perhaps frightening :) that LEGO may produce fluorescent
plastic bricks someday.
--Todd
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| (...) I forgot to mention: Another name for the transparent fluorescent green/ yellow color is "antifreeze" or "antifreeze green/yellow." --Todd (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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