From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:23:52 +0100 From: Ethan Grammatikidis To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-Id: <20090713112352.5507060b.eekee57@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <874otkp3gh.fsf@plap.localdomain> References: <6e35c0620907101131x5657b7at39cba5a7024f1ddc@mail.gmail.com> <20090710205029.f480b9f8.eekee57@fastmail.fm> <874otkp3gh.fsf@plap.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] plan 9 interface color ergonomy Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1ceef544-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:14:33 GMT Paul Donnelly 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. -- Ethan Grammatikidis Those who are slower at parsing information must necessarily be faster at problem-solving.