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BranShea #167804 04/25/07 07:32 PM
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In engineering it is often considered convenient to define colours even more precisely, such as by FED-STD-595 codes, or RGB values in computer graphics, e.g., 12/146/244*. [Just to be technically snooty :/]

*And no, just a straw example so do not know what that one is.


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BranShea #167806 04/25/07 07:45 PM
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If you want to have a laugh see this: "rhyming with "CAESIOUS" ":


Now don't you just LONG to use it in a poem!

Oh blackberry caesious
with colour abstemious
yet taste capacious
etc.

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when it comes to computer colors, even RGB values can be different. depending on OS or browser.

colors made with 0, 3, 6, 9, C, are supposted to be the same on ALL browsers.

003300 should be virtually identical when viewed on but
103310 could be surprizingly differnt!

Pantone is another standare (used by print media,and some programs like photo shop can calibrate your monitor to give 'pantone value' colors.

these various standards correct the various names/ideas about what color is what
Red--even 'true red' can be very subjective! just as (as has been discussed) A or middle C is subjective.. is the value for C 440 H? or some other number?) you can get an idea even when slightly out of tune, but music definately sounds better when there is a commonly agreed on value!

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Oh blackberry caesious
with colour abstemious
yet taste capacious
etceteracious
Yeh!! And behold, it was brought within my grasp

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pardon me for butting in just to change the subject line, but.

-joe (aeiou) friday

of troy #167816 04/25/07 11:40 PM
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Originally Posted By: of troy
when it comes to computer colors, even RGB values can be different. depending on OS or browser.

colors made with 0, 3, 6, 9, C, are supposted to be the same on ALL browsers.


Kia ora Helen, Like music or sound the environment is important. All the monitors need to be perfectly calibrated and in the same viewing environment to be seen as true representaions(due to different coulour temperatures, fluoro, as opposed to daylight)LCD and plasma monitors reflect light differently as well,

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003300 should be virtually identical when viewed on but
103310 could be surprizingly differnt!

Hexadecimal equivalents of RGB
In the second colour red and blue have been added into the mix creating a slight difference.
Java and HTML interpret the colours almost identically as well.

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colors made with 0, 3, 6, 9, C, are supposted to be the same on ALL browsers.


In the 216 "web safe" colors, each R, G, or B value is either 00, 33, 66, 99, CC, or FF. This was back when many computers could only display 256 colors at a time and Windows and MacOS each had 40 different colors reserved. If you picked a "random" RGB value, the OS\browser on a 256 color display would have to pick some color to replace it.

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Originally Posted By: tsuwm
pardon me for butting in just to change the subject line, but.

-joe (aeiou) friday


Just contributing a little hæft..

AnnaStrophic #167830 04/27/07 12:06 AM
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Just contributing a little hæft..


As in?

BranShea #167837 04/27/07 04:36 PM
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Bluish or grayish green.
[From Latin caesius, probably from caelum (sky)

So...did Caesar have blue(ish) eyes? Is that why he was named that? (She asked, wondering if it was documented somewhere, not remembering much about Caesar herself.)

And...the link didn't work, for me. :-(

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