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Re: Colous in Lego
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lugnet.general
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Sun, 17 Oct 1999 22:38:43 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> > One last thing. Is the Fluro Green actually Fluro Green, or Fluro
> > Yellow?
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> 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." :-)
> [...]
I forgot to mention: Another name for the transparent fluorescent green/
yellow color is "antifreeze" or "antifreeze green/yellow."
--Todd
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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 10-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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