Can someone just whip up a quick Color Theory module so we can easily import all of this relevant information into Pygame?
Thanks! On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 12:40 AM, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz>wrote: > Miriam English wrote: > >> The red, blue, yellow that people have been using for centuries are now >> often called magenta, cyan, yellow. But many people still call them red, >> blue, yellow. They aren't wrong to do so, but it can make color stuff >> confusing. >> > > Massively confusing, I would say. The difference between red > and magenta, and between blue and cyan, isn't just a minor > distinction -- it's vitally important to understanding how > subtractive colour mixing works! > > Perhaps this bugs me more than others, because I'm the kind > of person that likes to understand the reasons behind things > rather than just memorising a bunch of rules. And the > red-blue-yellow misinformation that I was fed by my parents > and teachers actively interfered with my understanding in > this area for a long time. (Astoundingly, one of the teachers > at fault was my *physics* teacher -- he of all people should > have been able to do a better job of explaining it! In the > end it took an art teacher to set me thinking in the right > direction.) > > -- > Greg > -- Joseph M. Halvarson 612-875-2593
