Re: [pygame] "Making Games with Python & Pygame" free book

[Lee Buckingham <lee.buckingham@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think the iphone 5 can see in ultraviolet.

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Joseph Halvarson
<joehalvarson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Can someone just whip up a quick Color Theory module so we can easily import
> all of this relevant information into Pygame?
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> Thanks!
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> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 12:40 AM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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>> Miriam English wrote:
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>>> The red, blue, yellow that people have been using for centuries are now
>>> often called magenta, cyan, yellow. But many people still call them red,
>>> blue, yellow. They aren't wrong to do so, but it can make color stuff
>>> confusing.
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>> Massively confusing, I would say. The difference between red
>> and magenta, and between blue and cyan, isn't just a minor
>> distinction -- it's vitally important to understanding how
>> subtractive colour mixing works!
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>> Perhaps this bugs me more than others, because I'm the kind
>> of person that likes to understand the reasons behind things
>> rather than just memorising a bunch of rules. And the
>> red-blue-yellow misinformation that I was fed by my parents
>> and teachers actively interfered with my understanding in
>> this area for a long time. (Astoundingly, one of the teachers
>> at fault was my *physics* teacher -- he of all people should
>> have been able to do a better job of explaining it! In the
>> end it took an art teacher to set me thinking in the right
>> direction.)
>>
>> --
>> Greg
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