On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:14:33 GMT Paul Donnelly <[email protected]> wrote:
> [email protected] (Ethan Grammatikidis) writes: > > > The only pale colours on the South Downs are the haze-blued hills of > > the North Downs in the far distance, and the sky when it's > > overcast. The middle and foreground are occupied by very strong > > greens, except for some fields near harvest time which are likely to > > be other strong colours. > > > > Curiously I like looking at those green hills much better than > > anything green on my computer screen, even pictures of the same. I > > can't account for that. > > Likely because your monitor can't produce the right shades of > green. There's the trick where you stare at a red spot on your monitor > for a while then look at a gray area, and you'll see an afterimage in a > shade of teal your monitor can't match. I suppose staring at a magenta > spot would do much the same thing for green. > Ah quite possibly. You've reminded me of certain flowers which produce a visual effect which cannot easily be duplicated onscreen or in photographs. Also a colour space diagram showing the range a monitor can produce as a triangle and the range of colours the human eye can see, the latter covering at least twice the area of the former. -- Ethan Grammatikidis Those who are slower at parsing information must necessarily be faster at problem-solving.
