Re: Yellowblue (was Re: Quest for colours: what's basic then?)

>> Just found this very interesting thing on the web regarding the
>> above. Have a look at the background of the following webpage:
>>
>> http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/indologie/tamil/mwd_search.html
>>
>> Most surprisingly, it does look (at least to my eyes and on my
>> screen) like a smooth transition from blue to yellow _without_
>> an obvious green or grey in between. To see it more clearly,
>> you can try saving the background image and opening it in your
>> computer; it is a thin stripe in whose middle you will find
>> the closest approximation to yellowblue I've ever seen on
>> a computer screen.
>
>Um, on my screen, it starts as turquoise blue and goes to white via very
pale
>green. There's not a trace of yellow.
Then you must revise the calibration of your monitor, because
the colour at the right extreme is RGB {255,255,206}={FF,FF,CE},
that is, the encoding *is* without the slightest doubt that of
a pale pure yellow and as such should appear on any properly
calibrated monitor. It clearly appears as such on mine, so mine
is presumably not the one that needs calibration. The colour
at the left extreme is RGB {156,206,206}={9C,CE,CE}, a pale
cyan blue.

Cheers,
Javier

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