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11 2006年12月, 2008以来愛する色

Tuna

評価: 9,710		愛: 80
パレット: 406		色: 339
パターン: 8		コメント: 406

性別: 男性 年齢: 29
場所: Mediterranean
職業: Engineer

On Colours and Stars

I love palettes with high contrast, especially those based on deep blue/indigo. I am also disturbingly attracted to dark grey. However - for a reason unknown to me - I rarely tend to combine those colours.

When dealing with brighter colours, my undepletable inspiration are the colours of stars. They are indeed the contrast in our universe. Consider their enormously bright surface surrounded by a blanket of the deepest black, extreme temperature surrounded by the absolute zero of space.

For me, the fact that nobody among us on Earth, at least in this era, will ever come even remotely close to them, while anybody can see them almost every night, gives the stars a kind of an aura of immortality. They were here a long time before us, and will outlive us just as immeasureably.

Who is Tuna?

Tuna is an engineer that came across COLOURlovers while searching for a good colour concept for a friend's tiny website he was making at the time, and became addicted right away.

Tuna lives on the Adriatic Sea, plays drums in a band, is an avid snooker player and enjoys photography - especially night photography - although still a beginner. Tuna loves Italian cuisine, heavy rain, jazz, cryptography, casual clothing, literature, alpine climbing, DIY stuff, d(r)iving, cherries, science fiction, white coffee and unusual wrist watches.

Spectral Science

Although I don't have even the remotest intention of dissecting the realm of art into brutal scientific facts, of pure curiosity I've tried to make a small experiment and do some very basic statistical analyses of some top rated palettes. One can never draw completely clear facts when dealing with something as vague and changeable as personal tastes, but nevertheless, some points proved interesting.

But before that, let's just pause on one methodical detail. To analyze the colours effectively, one needs to convert all those RGB values to HSB (Hue-Saturation-Brightness) that are more suitable to human perception and classification of colours, as opposed to Red-Green-Blue values that are primarily used in technical field.

Most of the palettes had at least one of those three variables relatively stable, that is - whether the same hue throughout, roughly the same brightness, or a similar saturation. The latter two were somewhat more frequent. About one fifth had two of those variables stable, and those were mostly transitional palettes.

The paths that the sequence of colours in a palette make in the 2D diagrams (three possible - Hue-Saturation, Hue-Brightness and Saturation-Brightness) usually do not make many "sharp corners"; usually none or one, and almost never more than two. In other words, even within the palettes that appear almost chaotically colourful, there is some kind of underlying structure and well-defined directions and curves that the colours "ride" on, and the aforementioned (at least partial) stability of at least one variable remains. Those three related 5-point curves (HS, HB and SB) also tend to keep their average spread quite stable. Therefore, the more chaotic and irregular one or two of the variables, the more stable remaining one or two have to stay. Usually it will be the brightness and saturation that can withstand the most variance, but providing those two are homogenous, there are also many examples featuring "wild" hue changes.

If you're interested into the matter, let me have a couple of palettes that you like and I can try to extract this kind of data. (Or maybe, I should one day undertake applying this on the complete CL site if possible? What do you think...?)

A couple of big, warm Thank You's

Social theory

There has been some debate around about whether is it all right to create a pattern based on someone's palette. In this case, as my primary interest are the palettes and I very rarely create patterns, feel free to use any of my palettes to create patterns, regardless how many of them, or how much time has elapsed since they have been posted.

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