What colour is this tent?

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23 Feb 2012, 1:58 am

Look at this image:

The two labelled squares are actually the same colour.

This shows that context is very important in deciding colour. The tent in the picture might actually be a colour that I would call pink in a different context. But since the context is that light is hitting it, and it's thin and therefore slightly transparent, I call it red.

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23 Feb 2012, 2:13 am

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23 Feb 2012, 2:24 am

I'd say red.

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23 Feb 2012, 2:29 am

Declension wrote:

Look at this image:

The two labelled squares are actually the same colour.

This shows that context is very important in deciding colour. The tent in the picture might actually be a colour that I would call pink in a different context. But since the context is that light is hitting it, and it's thin and therefore slightly transparent, I call it red.

I fail to comprehend. Explain.

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23 Feb 2012, 2:37 am

Nim wrote:

I fail to comprehend. Explain.

The two labelled squares are the same colour. What I mean by that is, they are the same RGB value on the computer. But we see them differently, because one of them is in shadow. Since we know that it is in shadow, we automatically "adjust" how we see the colour in order to compensate for the fact that we "know" that the shadow is making it darker.

In the same way, if I used Microsoft Paint and took a pixel from the image of the tent, and coloured an image of a balloon with it, I would probably call it pink. However, I know things about tents. I know that when sunlight hits a thin transparent material, it makes it appear lighter. And so I adjust my perception, and call the tent red.

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23 Feb 2012, 2:50 am

Declension wrote:

Nim wrote:

I fail to comprehend. Explain.

I have tested and agree. The shades are off ever so slightly.

Quite interesting.

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23 Feb 2012, 3:05 am

Just looking at the poll results again. I SWEAR THAT TENT IS DARK PINK.

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23 Feb 2012, 9:09 am

I said red, although it looks a rather pinky red to me.

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23 Feb 2012, 10:08 am

Declension wrote:

Look at this image:

i have checked the shade of grey that those 2 squares are and they are the same shade of grey (they are not a color)
it is very interesting that the checkerboard pattern must have gone out of kilter somewhere for the "b" square to be the same shade as the "a" square. the checkerboard pattern seems to be uninterrupted, but if "b" is the same shade as "a" then i can not see where the pattern went out of sequence.

anyway, i wrote a simple program that i use to understand colors, and i think that the color of the tent is 220/255 red, and 40/255 green and 90/255 blue (all combined). it is not exact, but in my mind it is close. i conceived of the true color (in my mind) without exceptional illumination.

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23 Feb 2012, 10:15 am

Red or pink. I definitely wouldn't say orange.

Every time I come across it, that checkerboard scares me! I copy and paste the A + B together, to make sure they ARE the same, then look at the original image. It hurts