bagginsbill opened this issue on Jul 30, 2012 · 130 posts
bagginsbill posted Tue, 14 August 2012 at 2:44 PM
I am plagued with questions about the perception of color!
I have been doing my own investigations, as well as studying published research.
This was prompted by my attempt to assemble a large collection of colors in an upcoming shader set - 11 shades of achromatic black-gray-white and 89 colorful colors.
Three things overwhelmed me:
Attempting to name the colors was a huge effort. There is incredible disagreement about color names. Google "chartreuse" images and be astonished that these people are using the same word for all these colors.
Attempting to even classify them into broad categories led to difficulties.
I don't think perceived brightness is well understood.
Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)