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Re: Color associations

From:Jonathan Chang <zhang2323@...>
Date:Monday, September 4, 2000, 21:30
In a message dated 2000:09:04 2:04:59 PM, hsteoh@QUICKFUR.YI.ORG writes:

>Now that's a very interesting point-of-view. For me it's the opposite: >black is the absence of color, while white is the presence of all possible >colors. <SNiP> If we're dealing with pigments (paints, etc.) then your >POV
is the "right" one, Yep I based this on my early childhood Montesorri schooling experience with fingerpaints & later high school art background... I figure in my Autonomia Isola Verde ConCulture that is also sorta where they - the Caos Generazi - get it too...
>but if we're dealing with mixing colors in light, then my POV would be the >appropriate one. Just shows how brainwashed I am with modern >physics, I
suppose :-P (ya know, elementary colors of light, and all that) 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... czHANg