Take something you like: Embrace & Extend

I'm trying to stretch out the colours that are in my life. Things I enjoy, little things from jubjubs and gummy bears to being lost in the trees all represent my comfortable colours. Hmm, perhaps the next colours for my room?

A world without Colour.

Oh to be colour blind.

Like I've mentioned before (or maybe I haven't), peoples vision comes from different colour sensing cones. When someone is colour blind they are missing or have one or more cones a bit less responsive than other, well, normal people.

And that brings up a problem of how to communicate with those that are colour blind about color, or for those blind that might want to find an associated hue to something. There is this:
http://www.colblindor.com/color-name-hue/

Mostly, I'll be matching names to things and having fun.

Colour Language; Like Signlangauge.. sort of..

The names of colours are much more universal than I made out to be.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061019094031.htm

At some point, everyone will speak english, and I dread to see that day. The english language, although diverse or.. huge, misses on some real fundamental values of the true meaning of things. I happen to think the same thing is with colours. We have 11 different names for the basic colours, but really there only needs to be a few, maybe a maximum of 6 colours.

Safari, Here we come

I often like to boast my hind off about Firefox and it's amazing qualities in rendering Standards with a gecko based backend. But I was working in Illustrator and exporting images when I noticed that the colour was off, way off in my lovely browser. When I save an image to the web Illustrator asks me if I would like to embed my colour profile settings into a jpeg. If I do then other programs can read this and use the same colour profile. But it turns out the colour profile settings weren't being adhered to in Firefox, and thinking it was just a browser issue I continued on my way trying to oversaturate the image in illustrator to match the desaturation that would happen when exporting. A lenghty process I assure you.

I then accidently viewed it in Safari.. and. The colours were fabulous. I investigated, and, it appears this was a nice goody that was added back in 2007.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/cnet/2007-06-19-safari-colors_N.htm

It's interesting that in the article it mentions Firefox 3 will have these nice features. Yet, I'm using Firefox 3 beta 4 and.. it doesn't.. .. but not according to bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16769

Our Poor selves. We're only Trichromatic.

Most people trichromatic, however, most spiders, birds & reptiles outdo us by being tetrachromatic. Makes me a bit jealous.

I've often wondered what it'd be like to see like with more colour. And so we turn our heads to women. About 2-3% of women are expected to be tetrachromatics, possibly yielding a chance to see more colour than men.

*sigh*

There is a pdf on this:
http://www.klab.caltech.edu/cns186/papers/Jameson01.pdf

Lighting, Happiness?

Colour, it comes from the spectrum of light... Which, while daylights don't contain the full spectrum of colours, the sun does. Now, the sun also makes people happy, coincidence? I THINK NOT!

Indoor lighting, the kind you see in cubicles does not provide full spectrum lighting. Do you see happy people in cubicles? no. Coincidence? I THINK NOT!

that is all for today

Colour Experimentation

There are commonalities in people and what they think about colour yet this is often something that forms through the foundation of our childhoods. Reds formed passioned hates and loves, and is supposed to make people hungry. Blues formed skies of peace and tranquility and finds itself in religious standings. Green is on the forfront of nature and fertility, wealth and growth. Yellow of sunlight and happiness. Purple of Envy creativity and royalty.