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Re: RGB color values for many brick colors
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Wed, 27 Jun 2001 21:30:47 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, David Eaton writes:
> In lugnet.publish, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > > http://www.baseplate.com/colors/gif-pic.html
> > 
> > Cool. Do you know the actual CMYK values, or are you saying that everyone
> > ought to do that sampling on their own??
> 
> I'm assuming "CMYK" translates to something along the lines of
> Blue,Red,Yellow,Black?
> Or more appropriately "Cyan","Magenta","Yellow",K? (what the heck would K be?)


CMYK is Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black (subtractive color model vs RGB
additive color model).  CMY gives you a muddled gray/brown so K is added for
pure black.

Go to http://www.mundidesign.com/presentation/index2.html
and then option 2b, Color Theory for a nice presentation on the topic.  I
think his site require the Flash plug in.

-Rob Doucette.



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(...) I'm assuming "CMYK" translates to something along the lines of Blue,Red,Yellow,Black? Or more appropriately "Cyan","Magenta","Yellow",K? (what the heck would K be?) If you had the CMYK values, could these be mathematically translated into (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.trains, lugnet.faq, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad)

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