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This site shows that our perception of color is influenced by the colors surrounding. It's really really cool.

which is why I really want a white/grey/steel UI pallette

I just wish people would pick clothing colors based on their skin color. I don't care if the fleshwrap looks great in the interface, a red fleshwrap on a green twi'lek looks foul. Sometimes people are so wrapped up in what colors are cool in the abstract that they refuse to try out colors that would look far better on them.

OMG!!!! I'd seen the first picture before and had checked it myself in PSP and the RGB values do match.
Picture 2 & 3 on the other hand, they are new to me and when you first look at the third picture, you don't think there is anyway that they can be the same or even close. It's mind boggling!!

Message Edited by Phendrena on 08-02-2005 11:14 AM

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i had to photoshop that 3rd one and use the eyedropper tool to really believe that the right image wasn't yellow.

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Oreet wrote:
i had to photoshop that 3rd one and use the eyedropper tool to really believe that the right image wasn't yellow.

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Well it is yellow with a blue filter over it. The other is blue with a yellow filter over it making the center the same color. Our brains are *really* good at taking away filters to try to percieve the true color though. One fun example of this is to wear some 3D glasses for about 5 minutes (you know, the ones with a red and a blue filter). Take them off and then go back and forth winking each eye. Everything will have a cast over it that is the "opposite" color of what was over each eye until your brain adjusts again.

wow! That is really neat..

yup. color theory rocks. had an issue last night where i had to tell a guildmate the color was duller than he expected because his skin color was brighter. no colors exists in space as its own entity, thus there is not such thing as a 100 percent pure color. great stuff.

/mood clinical

Ah yes, as a matter of fact, this is a very interesting phenomenon.
The eye, and the brain *drones on for an hour about retina's, rods and globules, optical neural pathways, signal transmissionsand the brain's optical centers*.

/mood friendly

But the site gives a great, practical demonstration of how it works.

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ZallusNuranxis wrote:

Falech wrote:

/mood clinical

Ah yes, as a matter of fact, this is a very interesting phenomenon.
The eye, and the brain *drones on for an hour about retina's, rods and globules, optical neural pathways, signal transmissionsand the brain's optical centers*.

/mood friendly

But the site gives a great, practical demonstration of how it works.

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If you're not color blind

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There are actually some color charts listed above for the colorblind tailor. Unfortunately, the color boxes are no longer in the order as they appear on the chart. It would be really nice if our color grids were numbered for that reason - so a colorblind person could keep track of which one is red and so on.