Let's talk about the primary

[yo soy el mejor]

colors

[slunken]

damn.

got my ass.

[teh b0lly!!1]

Originally Posted by yo soy el mejor

you know, it's actually not long ago that i first discovered the proper nature of relationships between colors, despite sketching all my life and occasionally dabbling in painting.

the way you can make colors relate to each other by being aware of how far apart they are on the color wheel, or the ability to make any color/tint warm (ie: adding yellow) or cool (ie: add blue), and blending the two convincingly within the same piece even when they seem disparate (going from a very hot red to very cold blue by using some violets and purples in the middle). it's all so fucking cool and opens up seemingly infinite possibilities. totally an artform in and of itself that requires its own mastery.

[smashingjj]

hahaha yo soy made an ironic thread! lol

[LaBelle]

blue!

[redbreegull]

LaBelle is LaBack

[MyOneAndOnly]

Pink or STFU

[yo soy el mejor]

Originally Posted by MyOneAndOnly

Pink or STFU

[FoolofaTook]

[Mals Marola]

Originally Posted by MyOneAndOnly

Pink or STFU

i'm into the sweet spot between pink & purple, myself. "berry" i think they call it

either way, let's give it up to the mother of these 3, RED

(but i love my boy blue, too, i ain't forgettin' blue out here)

[FoolofaTook]

Blue is my fav color.

No lie.

[smashingjj]

[FoolofaTook]

My three favorite ingredients: curry, almond extract, and vulva nectar.
-Steven Tyler

[Alice]

Originally Posted by FoolofaTook

Blue is my fav color.

No lie.

I probably would have guessed green

[yo soy el mejor]

Originally Posted by Tyler

I probably would have guessed green

i like green $_$

[FoolofaTook]

[wHATcOLOR]

each time i try to view this thread, it is in the evening, and the f.lux app on my machine is making the colors different so i never get the full effect.

on day, i will view this during the day! i swear it on my life. so please don't delete it, i do not want this to be the reason i die

[wHATcOLOR]

i did it! i FUCKING did it you guys. i really did it.

yes!!

[LaBelle]

okay so.....
wHATcOLOR?

[Disco King]

I find colour fascinating in that there seems to be rich theories behind it in both art and science that I have trouble wrapping my head around.

For example, it seems as though there is nothing inherent about a certain wavelength of light that makes it primary or secondary or tertiary. Rather, the primariness of a colour is a function of the visual system perceiving it. We've got three cones in our eyes, one most responsive to wavelengths in the reddish part of the spectrum, one most responsive in the blueish, and one in the greenish. When light stimulates both the blue and green, for instance, the brain reasons that the reason for this is that we must be perceiving a wavelength of light kinda between the two, so it shows us yellow. This is what makes RBG (hey!) the primary colours of light.

What I don't understand is why the primary colours of pigment are red, yellow, and blue, rather than red, green, and blue. Pigment and light seem to act differently because one is subtractive while the other is additive, but I have no idea why it should be the case that it matters whether the light reaching our eyes was emitted or reflected by something. Especially confusing when in print, the primary colours used are cyan, magenta, and yellow, which are slightly different from blue, red, and yellow, and are the secondary colours of light. I mean, I understand that pigments absorb certain wavelengths of light, so the colour you see is the wavelength that was reflected rather than absorbed, but in the end, both subtractive and additive are transmitting some wavelengths of light to your eye regardless, so why does it matter how it got there?

[myosis]

also different guitar paint colors give a totally different sound

[Disco King]

There's also some interesting shit about how violet and purple are technically different colours.

Violet occurs in the spectrum. In the spectrum, the different colours aren't really mixtures of light, there are single wavelengths of light. So, pure orange in a rainbow isn't a mix of red and yellow light, it is simply orange light. The reason we see orange when we mix red and yellow light is that our brain is going "whatever light this is, it is stimulating both my red and yellow receptors a lot, so it's gotta be a colour in between that overlaps both receptor ranges." It fills it in with orange.

But violet occurs at the end of the spectrum. After violet, we reach into the range of light we cannot perceive, ultraviolet and beyond.

So, when a mix of red and blue light seems to equally stimulate our red and blue cones, but not our green, it's a little odd for the brain, because green is between red and blue, and whatever wavelength that stimulates red and blue should also stimulate our green cones. The brain kind of throws up its hands and fills it in with "purple," which is similar to violet. So, purple is what our brains perceive when it gets a mix of red and blue light, and doesn't really have an electromagnetic wavelength to itself. Violet, however, is a region in the spectrum, but it's not "between red and blue," because unlike our colour wheels, the electromagnetic spectrum isn't cyclical, but linear. After violet, there's only invisible light, and before red, there is only invisible light.

So, tl;dr: purple is a lie, pretty much just fake violet our brains made to trick us.

[Disco King]

Originally Posted by myosis

also different guitar paint colors give a totally different sound

You can totally hear the sunburst on Gish. Except for "Rhinoceros," which sounds more cream.

[topleybird]

Originally Posted by Disco King

purple is a lie

I feel like the logical endpoint of this idea is that Prince was our brains inventing what we needed to see, which I'm quite on board with

[yo soy el mejor]

Originally Posted by wHATcOLOR

i did it! i FUCKING did it you guys. i really did it.

yes!!

YEAH BOI. How'd you like it?

[yo soy el mejor]

[wHATcOLOR]

Originally Posted by LaBelle

okay so.....
wHATcOLOR?

white. or silver? i don't really know

Originally Posted by yo soy el mejor

YEAH BOI. How'd you like it?

thanks! i freaking loved it!!

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by Disco King

There's also some interesting shit about how violet and purple are technically different colours.

Violet occurs in the spectrum. In the spectrum, the different colours aren't really mixtures of light, there are single wavelengths of light. So, pure orange in a rainbow isn't a mix of red and yellow light, it is simply orange light. The reason we see orange when we mix red and yellow light is that our brain is going "whatever light this is, it is stimulating both my red and yellow receptors a lot, so it's gotta be a colour in between that overlaps both receptor ranges." It fills it in with orange.

But violet occurs at the end of the spectrum. After violet, we reach into the range of light we cannot perceive, ultraviolet and beyond.

So, when a mix of red and blue light seems to equally stimulate our red and blue cones, but not our green, it's a little odd for the brain, because green is between red and blue, and whatever wavelength that stimulates red and blue should also stimulate our green cones. The brain kind of throws up its hands and fills it in with "purple," which is similar to violet. So, purple is what our brains perceive when it gets a mix of red and blue light, and doesn't really have an electromagnetic wavelength to itself. Violet, however, is a region in the spectrum, but it's not "between red and blue," because unlike our colour wheels, the electromagnetic spectrum isn't cyclical, but linear. After violet, there's only invisible light, and before red, there is only invisible light.

So, tl;dr: purple is a lie, pretty much just fake violet our brains made to trick us.

til!

[qwerty sp]

I want to smack someone’s little bottom till it’s bright red

[FoolofaTook]

ok pm me