17 Nov
2004
17 Nov
'04
8:31 a.m.
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, John Foust wrote:
RGB color is far more complex than that. What about
the monitor
you're displaying it on? Consider the various phosphor blends
and the implicit or customizable settings of color temperature
in the monitor. RGB "White" isn't "white".
....
Reproducing a finish on metal or plastic must be even
more
complicated than anything computer-based. Your perception of
the appearance of the finish is potentially dependent on all
sorts of specular and multi-layer-reflective and transmissive
colorings.
Color is the same as food. Totally subjective!
And paints also derive effects -- often NOT subtle -- depending
on their depth, literally -- thickness; partially transmissive
partially reflective, and the texture changes the color and
the subjective emotional response to the whole thing.
Think "food".
But likely for squirting color on an old computer, "close is close enough".