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[Μarkham]

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[ClydeArgyle]

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Can't I? I didn't see any problem on my end when I did so. Well, I've removed it anyway, so... yeah.

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Oh, I thought it was because magenta isn't a "real" color (doesn't have a corresponding wavelength,  http://www.null-hypothesis.co.uk/science/strange-but-true/profs-probings/colour_spectrum_magenta_complimentary_bizarre), which I thought was odd since it had nothing to do with indie game dev :/

Wow, this is cool.  I wonder if there are animals whose brains work like ours for light except that they don't "close the loop".  Or if we could model that type of vision and see what the world would look like without magenta.  ...That is, for those of us who aren't indie enough to already know.

[Ben_Hurr]

This is me everyday.

[Glaiel-Gamer]

Shall we see how deep the magenta rabbit hole gets?
Magenta is a color trademark of Deutsche Telekom AG, parent company of T-Mobile.


...T-Mobile?
And AT&T is set to buy them soon...

The clues have been in front of us all along. Somebody has to stop this or the consequences could be DIRE.

[eiyukabe]

...T-Mobile?
And AT&T is set to buy them soon...

Really? That's surprising considering how much of a hard time T-Mobile gives AT&T in their latest commercials. Oh well, if you can't beat 'em, buy 'em.

[phubans]

One network provider.

One bank.

One nation.

One God.

One World Order.

 


It's amazing how something as simple as a piece of paper allowed all of this to happen.

[drChengele]

Please tell me you are not taking that "magenta is not a color" thing seriously. Because it's not really a meaningful article as much as pop-science drivel. Colors don't work that way. The mechanisms of discerning colors are much more complex than that.

White isn't anywhere in the spectrum, either. I suppose that means that white is not a color.

[Glaiel-Gamer]

Please tell me you are not taking that "magenta is not a color" thing seriously.

you're blind to the truth man, you need to open your eyes

[ClydeArgyle]

Please tell me you are not taking that "magenta is not a color" thing seriously. Because it's not really a meaningful article as much as pop-science drivel. Colors don't work that way. The mechanisms of discerning colors are much more complex than that.

White isn't anywhere in the spectrum, either. I suppose that means that white is not a color.

To me, "color" is synonymous with "hue." White is not a hue.

[Paul Eres]

i've never really considered white, grey, and black to be colors -- but my parents are both visual artists so i grew up with a lot of color theory around me. something can be commonly considered to be a color but technically not considered to be one. white and black (and shades of grey) are like that, they are not actually colors so much as colorless levels of brightness, so it's not a stretch to say that magenta could also work that way (linguistically)

it's also notable that you rarely see things that are colored magenta in nature, it's one of the rarest colors of the natural world. only a couple of flowers are magenta (simultaneously emit both red and violet hues, which the brain mixes), and even among flowers red and violet flowers are far more common.

an interesting thing is that because of how we mix colors, we see e.g. blue-yellow things as green things, so the brain can't really distinguish between something that is *both* blue and yellow and something that is green, even though those those are two separate things (a mix of two wavelengths and a single wavelength).

which i guess is good for the game industry, otherwise we'd have had to figure out a way to make pixels change to any color (emit any wavelength) rather than just the three (red/green/blue). it simplified display technology. i wonder if we'd even know the difference if someone created a monitor that could make any pixel into any color rather than relying on combinations. probably not, but other visual systems would -- aliens which used a different visual system, and even some animals with different enough visual systems, would literally not be able to interpret pictures on a television or monitor (a leaf on a screen wouldn't be colored like a leaf in real life to them), because it relies on the observer's visual system operating in a particular way.

(come to think of it, film projection using the old style of film rather than digital technology would probably be an example of when colors are not mixed frequencies but pure ones -- there's no red-green-blue mixing in traditional film projection theaters. do those colors look more real than television? if so i never noticed it)

[Gimym TILBERT]

I don't remember wich but I have read somewhere we have the gene for infrared or ultraviolet, some people can born with this ability too!

But hey it's optimistic Indie dev here (OID) not color theory thread

[Ness Kain]

There is not a number which describes the number of times i've been asked this question

I just got this for the first time today. That's strange timing, considering how recently I read your post there.
I hope this doesn't become a trend for me, too.

[phubans]

I used to get that all the time, and people would be like, "OMG YOU HAVE TO SEE GRANDMA'S BOY! YOU'RE SOOO GRANDMA'S BOY!" etc... Ugh. I finally saw it and was like, "OK?"

dum

[Guillaume]

Who's grandma's boy?