Hue means something to you? Having always worked in RGB, I have laterally no idea that a hue of 30 is orange.
At least with RGB, I can imagine what the mix would be.
At least with RGB, I can imagine what the mix would be.
0° red
60° yellow
120° green
180° cyan
240° blue
300° magenta
Labelled colour wheel:
http://codropspz.tympanus.netdna-cdn.com/codrops/wp-content/...
Tangential, but does anyone else see movement near center of the color wheel when changing focus away from it? Optical illusions fascinate me. Are certain types categorized?
>3 Explanation of cognitive illusions > 3.1 Perceptual organization > 3.2 Depth and motion perception > 3.3 Color and brightness constancies > 3.4 Object > 3.5 Future perception
How much time have you spent fiddling with RGB values to pick colors? I assume it's either a lot less or a lot more than me, because while I too can certainly imagine what any given mix would be, my imagination is usually so far off from the real result as to be useless.
This has been true even when I worked in pure gray. 50% each of R, G, and B results in a perceptually very dark gray (that is, the contrast between #808080 and pure black, #000, is much less than the contrast between #808080 and pure white, #fff).
Elsewhere in this thread I sang the praises of HCL, a color model where you can adjust independently the hue ("color" in the traditional sense, as in orange vs blue vs yellow vs green vs red), the perceived brightness, and the perceived "grayness" (saturation) of a color: http://vis4.net/blog/posts/avoid-equidistant-hsv-colors/
So, regardless of whether or not you know the exact hue value of a given color, it still decomposes more easily than RGB :)