Re: Color associations

On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 05:30:57PM -0400, Jonathan Chang wrote:
[snip]
>     exactly... in the "real world" (read: useful, everyday) of colours
> derived from the earth & sea, organic chemistry etc.  vs. the abstractations
> of light, precision prisms, & physics...
They aren't really abstractions tho... for example, the monitor you're
looking at builds it colors using additive colors (red/green/blue pixels)
instead of subtractive colors (like paint). It's just that we don't
normally play with colored lights; we're more likely to play with colored
materials like paints, instead.

Of course, I'm biased in this direction, since the physics in my
con-universe is such that mixing colored materials are additive, like
light, instead of subtractive, like paints in the "real world". :-)


T