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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:14:33 +0000
From: Paul Donnelly <paul-donnelly@sbcglobal.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] plan 9 interface color ergonomy
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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.