Re: [9fans] plan 9 interface color ergonomy

[Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>]

On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:14:33 GMT
Paul Donnelly <paul-donnelly@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> eekee57@fastmail.fm (Ethan Grammatikidis) writes:
>
> > The only pale colours on the South Downs are the haze-blued hills of
> > the North Downs in the far distance, and the sky when it's
> > overcast. The middle and foreground are occupied by very strong
> > greens, except for some fields near harvest time which are likely to
> > be other strong colours.
> >
> > Curiously I like looking at those green hills much better than
> > anything green on my computer screen, even pictures of the same. I
> > can't account for that.
>
> Likely because your monitor can't produce the right shades of
> green. There's the trick where you stare at a red spot on your monitor
> for a while then look at a gray area, and you'll see an afterimage in a
> shade of teal your monitor can't match. I suppose staring at a magenta
> spot would do much the same thing for green.
>

Ah quite possibly. You've reminded me of certain flowers which produce a visual effect which cannot easily be duplicated onscreen or in photographs. Also a colour space diagram showing the range a monitor can produce as a triangle and the range of colours the human eye can see, the latter covering at least twice the area of the former.

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Ethan Grammatikidis

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