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Re: Colors in Czirehlat

From:David Peterson <digitalscream@...>
Date:Monday, July 30, 2001, 8:51
In a message dated 7/29/01 5:52:34 PM, hmiller@IO.COM writes:

<< >Stage 6B.) If black doesn't split off, blue and green split up, leaving:

>White, Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, warm and cool. (7 terms.)
This leaves yellowish brown, orange, and pink in the "warm" category, and blackish brown, gray and purple in the "cool" category? >> Indeed it does. <<I was assuming black and white would be included.>> Ah, see we were thinking from two different base points. You were thinking of colors as non "black/white/gray"'s, while I was including them. Yes, your system works fine. <<I'm not familiar with what color Laker uniforms are. Could they be a hue intermediate between the blue range and the purple range? Or a shade of purple that isn't picked up well by TV cameras?>> Not that it's terribly relevant by this point, but yes, the latter is true. Still, there are those that maintain that they're still purple on TV... <<I think for Czirehlat I'm settling on a system with five basic hues (red, yellow, green, blue, purple) plus black, white, and gray. I'll keep the words for orange and brown, but I'm not sure yet if either or both of them are basic colors.>> <snip> I went to both sites and looked at your diagrams, and I really like your color system, and it's perfectly workable. In my first language, I went wild with color terms. I kept the 11 basic, tons of extras like "teal", "magenta", and so forth, and then also more basic color terms, like "warm", and even a color I called "tree", which describes the colors one sees when looking at a forest scene in the daytime (every shade of green, yellow, browns and some black, with the occasional splash of red/purple from a flower or two...). Anyway, your system makes "color" sense to me, if that's a real concept, and that's all that counts, in my book. :) -David

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