Re: [OT] still blue

2022-07-25 Thread gene heskett
On 7/25/22 04:57, Emanuel Berg wrote: Nicolas George wrote: The color triangle possible by the RGB scheme is a tiny part of the colors that light can express. It cannot show real oranges, yellows, turquoises, only washed down approximations, and it is even worse for indigos and violets. Still,

Re: [OT] still blue

2022-07-25 Thread gene heskett
On 7/25/22 04:47, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 10:36:15AM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: [...] Many good points. I'd add: - colour perception varies by individuum far more than we are usually aware of Cheers This is far more true than folks admit to, Tomas. Back when US

Re: [OT] still blue

2022-07-25 Thread mick.crane
On 2022-07-25 09:54, Emanuel Berg wrote: Nicolas George wrote: The color triangle possible by the RGB scheme is a tiny part of the colors that light can express. It cannot show real oranges, yellows, turquoises, only washed down approximations, and it is even worse for indigos and violets. St

Re: [OT] still blue

2022-07-25 Thread Curt
On 2022-07-25, Nicolas George wrote: > > uniform in frequency and reciprocally). The best we can do is know > that our eye evolved for the light of the Sun, and therefore is > optimized for its light, and white is anything that looks like the > Plank spectrum at 5800 K, although 6500 K usu

Re: [OT] still blue

2022-07-25 Thread Emanuel Berg
tomas wrote: > Many good points. I'd add: > > - colour perception varies by individuum far more >than we are usually aware of OK, feel free to provide a solution that takes that into account then ... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal

Re: [OT] still blue

2022-07-25 Thread Emanuel Berg
Nicolas George wrote: > The color triangle possible by the RGB scheme is a tiny part > of the colors that light can express. It cannot show real > oranges, yellows, turquoises, only washed down > approximations, and it is even worse for indigos > and violets. Still, that's what I will use so what

Re: [OT] still blue

2022-07-25 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 10:36:15AM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: [...] Many good points. I'd add: - colour perception varies by individuum far more than we are usually aware of Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [OT] still blue

2022-07-25 Thread Nicolas George
Emanuel Berg (12022-07-25): > How much green and red can a blue color have and still > be blue? > > And how little blue can it have? > > I have a programmable keyboard so I've done some of that [1], > this new idea would be to have a all-blue, all-green etc keyboard randomized > each time, the ra