- Manue M
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What is color for YOU? Or what are colors for you?
A kid, a painter, a poet, a musician, a biologist, a physicist, all have they idea about color. Those ideas, concept. And references will be so amazingly diverse. You could cover so many disciplines just by talking about colors.
What is color for YOU.
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Krisztián Pintér 100+
color is a way to convey information.
it can represent categories with distinct colors like blue, red, green, etc. our brain is good at spotting and collecting all the green dots, all the red dots when they are mixed. it is good at picking a lone red dot among many blue ones. so you can use different colors to categorize objects.
it can represent trends or quantities. our brain is very good at estimating where a certain color is within a range of colors changing in saturation. for example you can represent air pollution or temperature gradients on a surface with a color range from bluish-gray to grayish-blue. our brain is good at understanding whether the change is gradual or sudden. if you represent height with color, our brain can tell apart a straight slope from a curved surface this way.
and it can convey small details, intricate patterns. our eye has much more brightness sensing cells. so if you want to show very small details, rapid changes on a small area, you can use colors differing in brightness. combined with the previous technique, you can represent very complex surfaces or other 2D information using a color range from a dark-gray to a lighter-bluish-gray. saturation gradient helps feeling the height, brightness gradient helps seeing the fine structure.
knowing such physiological facts is necessary to design visual images that are representative to the information we want to communicate. for data in a computer has value only if it can make its way to the user's brain.
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Krisztián Pintér 100+
Manue M
As a matter of fact which discipline would not have anything to do with colors?
Music... Nope. Music and colors have been associated for a long time. Colors and notes... Music and colors in art... Kandinsky...
Mary M. 50+
Alot of realtors tell their clients who want to sell a house to plant red flowers in front, since this has been proven to please the eyes and research shows the house will sell quicker.
Also, at the supermarket many food items are packaged using the colors red and blue....this I do not know why, but I imagine it is for the same reason as selling a house.
Mary M. 50+
I love whenever we go to home depot and walk over to the paint section to look at all the variety of colors on the paint swatches. There is something therapeutic about it.
Color helps me enjoy my surrounding more. Also, seeing color on my plate on a variety of foods is exquisite...it is interesting that many of my friends make an effort to make salads using as many colors as possible.......green lettuce, red tomatoes, white cucumbers, orange carrots, and so on.
It's beautiful to walk through open air markets and see the variety of colors in fruits and vegetables, and also spices.
And, what about gems?.....how pretty to see the sparkle of amethyst, citrine, ruby, topaz, and so on.
And the colors on humans?.....such a variety of hair color, eye color, skin color.....and all beautiful!!
Variety is the spice of life!
Manue M
Colors are transporting.
Colors are magical.
I was amazed to see how a coat of paint in a poor part au Cairo made the houses look beautiful. Colors are transforming.
Colors are a perception, helping use to survive... Not so many tigers to stop in the jungle, and not so many forest anymore, still... They help us in other ways
Interaction of colors are fascinating
Colors give an atmosphere
What are the colors of your memories?
The colors of the pictures taken by Hubble are amazing
I could go on and on....
Kat Haber 500+
Rhona Pavis 30+
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Manue M
Thanks for your answer.
Hum. Your last sentence is interesting. It raises up diverse questions. What is beauty? How about Sublimate pictures? A picture can be beautiful and represent something absolutely horrible. A picture with a very lovely sweet subject can be described as not beautiful.
I for myself do not like watching toxic imagery at all. It makes me feel sick. However, sometimes those pictures can be sublime, or/and can make us question ourselves or react for good.
I am thinking for example about this amazing picture of a dying girl with a vulture waiting for her to die. It is a horrible tragedy. Should the journalist have taken this picture or not? The journalist actually did not help the little girl. He went into deep depression and committed suicide after getting the pulitzer price for his picture.
I think that erasing all the toxic pictures from the planet would be like closing our eyes on some terrible things going on. Some people imagine or create horrible fictive pictures for fun. I don't know what to think. If it serves a good cause, it could be positive. If it encourages people to hate humans and love atrocity, it is bad.
A dictatorship would erase all toxic images showing what atrocities they have caused and replacing them with beautiful pictures.
Kids are surrounded with terrible pictures and as a mother, i think this is completely wrong.
I often imagine Horrible pictures of what could happen to my kids if.... If I did not ask the landlord to raise the hight of the banister, what could happen... It helps me keep my kids safe. I then always try to picture them old, heathy and joyous to erase the pictures that came in my mind!
What do you think?
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Manue M
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