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Johnny_Ray_Wilson
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256? I cheated.
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I factored in white and black.
this porn is bad. that is my conclusion.
254? i need to go back and read some more color theory. surely the answer is in there.
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256- I had to mix them all for a very creepy rape-vibe professor. I didn't look at the rest of the board- my "art student" sense went off. I'm sure that someone already told you.
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Yup. How'd you cheat? You look at a shade chart?
Things don't really start to get fucked up until you get the hues involved.
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seriously 256? acrylic or oil? do you think van gogh discovered all 256 colors? on his own? maybe scattered around on different palates. maybe. likely naught. poor bastard drank too much. all he saw was colour. mixed in and out.
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Meh. I think Van Gogh was using Painter's Viagra and the shade #'s kept climbing!
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The eye can only see 256 shades of any color. There are 3 primary colors (red, blue and yellow) 3 secondary colors (green, purple, and orange) and a fuck-ton of tertiary colors. You mix anything above "true grey" to get hues of that color- and anything below "true grey" to get shades. White is the absence of color, while black is the presence of all color. It's reversed in lighting.
And I had to mix them all. And they all had to be distinguishable from each other. And they had to line up correctly on a scale. That is far more difficult then it sounds.
No one "invented" them; it's science. Rods and cones and whatnot. Interestingly, bees have more hues then we do, especially in the infrared. There are other animals to, but I honestly kinda thought my professor was full of shit about that, because he hit on the youngest-looking guys there and kept thinking that I was Asian, even though I am, in no way, Asian. There was always one guy who secretly worshipped him, who you just KNEW was sucking his cock. But that guy got to go to England... so I'm not really sure how I feel about that.
Edit: I didn't see your question about media. Any medium is gonna have the same color restrictions- I'm talking about real, perceived color. I had to mix them in BOTH, as well as pastels in both chalk and oil and pencil and pen with crosshatching. It was a 'color foundation' class- which is, again, about 93% more difficult then it sounds.
