- #36
NeedBioInfo
- 177
- 0
Hypothetically, what ways could this ridiculously long list be made?
Thanks
Thanks
What is it you want this list for? For all practical purposes, as people have mentioned, the road from red to violet is a continuum.NeedBioInfo said:Hypothetically, what ways could this ridiculously long list be made?
Thanks
zoobyshoe said:What is it you want this list for? For all practical purposes, as people have mentioned, the road from red to violet is a continuum.
In reality none of the colors around us is pure, and it's pretty much arbitrary what you call anything. A tint somewhere between green and yellow, but more toward green, might be called "lime", but that is just for marketing purposes for fabric, or paint, or formica or whatever. "Lime" doesn't correspond to any exact position between red and violet because it will have white mixed in, and who knows what else. Pigments and dyes have particular qualities depending on what they're made of.
For an artist to paint a "green" leaf 10 different colors may have to be employed. "Greenness" is only the overall dominant impression you get when looking at a leaf. There are highlights and shadows, and a lot of plants we call green actually have a lot of brown in them, and brown is already a complex shaded orange. Some "green" plants have a lot of subtle red streaks, and some have a lot of blue, and some are very yellow, depending on how the light hits them.
NeedBioInfo said:No I just...my ex-boyfriend was an artist and I thought it would be neat to really embrace the world of color even if I can't draw. Sorry I know that doesn't make sense. I guess I just wanted to go up to him some day and say like "Look! I know ALL THE COLORS THAT EXIST! I have them right here so I can be aware of them all the time! That makes me kind of artistic doesn't it?"
It's not that I have issues. It's just complicated. Oh, wait, it is that I have issues...okay, well, never mind
Yeah. Just get a couple books with titles like How To Paint With Oil Colors, and there is sure to be an explanation of the color wheel. That tells you how to mix colors from primaries.Simetra7 said:Maybe you would be better off borrowing some art books from the library.
zoobyshoe said:Yeah. Just get a couple books with titles like How To Paint With Oil Colors, and there is sure to be an explanation of the color wheel. That tells you how to mix colors from primaries.
This may come across a bit blunt, but just knowing colors isn't what makes you artistic. That would be somewhat like saying memorizing all the words in a dictionary would make you a poet. You may simply be too technical in your thinking to really relate to the creative/artistic side of things. Maybe it's good that he's an "ex" boyfriend if you think and view the world from such very different points of view as to make it difficult to relate to each other.NeedBioInfo said:No I just...my ex-boyfriend was an artist and I thought it would be neat to really embrace the world of color even if I can't draw. Sorry I know that doesn't make sense. I guess I just wanted to go up to him some day and say like "Look! I know ALL THE COLORS THAT EXIST! I have them right here so I can be aware of them all the time! That makes me kind of artistic doesn't it?"
It's not that I have issues. It's just complicated. Oh, wait, it is that I have issues...okay, well, never mind
This is from the color thread:NeedBioInfo said:Somebody said this:
"list all the different "chromatic situations" (i.e. descriptions of the spectral content of the scene)"
What does it MEAN though? How would you do that? etc
thanks
Gerben said:You would have to determine which of those situations give the same color and give those the same color-name. Whether any two give the same color could be established by asking human subjects.
Moonbear said:It would be a ridiculous undertaking though. The other replies in that thread already pointed out how difficult it would be. You could come up with A list, but I doubt you could ever come up with a comprehensive or complete list.
The best information you can get on this is at Hyperphysics (I think you might want to be sure to follow all of the links from this primary link):NeedBioInfo said:Could somebody give me a list of all the colors that we could normally (Except for when we're color-blind, etc) perceive?
Also, could somebody give me a list of all the different shades, etc (Eg an illustrated list) that we could normally (Except for when we're color-blind, etc) perceive? Or at least, for example, a numerical amount of the shades that we could normally perceive?
hitssquad said:The best information you can get on this is at Hyperphysics