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Re: Is there a guide to which bricks go best with which transparent elements?
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lugnet.space
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Sun, 5 Dec 2004 13:20:46 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Geoffrey Hyde wrote:
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> "Trav" <trav@jeack.com.au> wrote in message
> news:6.0.1.1.0.20041205205236.01d295e8@pop.hotkey.net.au...
> > At 05:11 PM 5/12/2004, you wrote:
> > > I am planning on building a Space MOC, and I wanted to know if there are
> > > any
> > > guides which can help to pick viable colors for space cockpits. Obviously
> > > if using certain transparent cockpit elements, they will block some
> > > colors,
> > > so is there some easy way of determining which color bricks go best with
> > > which transparent colored cockpit elements, without actually having to
> > > have
> > > the actual transparent cockpit in the color I'm planning on using for it?
> >
> > What an Interesting idea.
> >
> > as far as I know, no there isn't a "guide" but damn, I'm starting to think
> > there should be one. I would make one, but I don't care that much since I
> > only use Smoke (or Trans Black), Trans Blue (light and dark) and clear
> > (which goes with any colour)
>
> OK as an added incentive of sorts if anoone can come up with an idea they
> can prove is viable, doesn't require the actual transparent elements to be
> around and if they're one of the first 5 people to do so, I'll give them $15
> store credit valid in my store Far North Bricks.
>
> As far as who is first in line, I'll take them from the newsgroup posting
> dates. Submissions by email will be rejected as I want anyone who has an
> comment or objection to something to speak up about it.
>
>
> Cheers ...
>
> Geoffrey Hyde
I have been thinking about this thing since i read your post, and after a while
I had come up with three different solutions (though i still think there should
be a guide somewhere to make it easier for all of us).
The first one requires that you have a small part - a 1x1 plate or brick,
doesn't matter if it's round or not. You'll place the brick or plate on a very
small light, a white LED or a small torch. Stand in a dark room and let the
light fall on a brick of the color you want to use inside the cockpit. Then
you'll see if you like the color of the light reflected on the brick - this will
be the same color as if you had had the brick inside a cockpit of the same color
as the small 1x1 part. (Or at least almost the same)
The second idea is to buy light filters, the kind of filters you'll find on some
spotlights. These filters are thin sheets of plastic, and are available in a
fairly wide range of colors. Once you've bought one of these, place a part in
any color behind the filter, and see if you like the color it will appear to
have when viewed through the filter.
The third and most simple idea is to chance and use logic. If you have a blue
windshield, all objects behind it will look more blue. That is, the more unlike
blue they are, the more distorted the colors will be.
You may use the entire grayscale, blue green and yellow, but red just wont work
to good (will look black)
So try to use color not too unlike the color of the windshield.
Cheers /Joel
PS these ideas are pretty basic, (especially the last one) but I couldn't know
whether you hade thought of them or not. I hope you could find something of it
useful.
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