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Apr 28, 2004 17:03

Ask me any question.

The harder it bites, the better.

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kimpton April 29 2004, 13:05:33 UTC
How would you discribe the colour blue?

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inkburn April 30 2004, 04:28:54 UTC
opposite of red.

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ninfreak16 May 1 2004, 12:38:30 UTC
*in mork voice* ACTUALLY, nicola, according to Herring's colour-opponency theory, yellow is the complementary colour of blue. *nerd laugh*

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inkburn May 1 2004, 12:59:06 UTC
to reiterate:

NEEEEERD.

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lotus_secret May 1 2004, 14:31:16 UTC
lol my god, i haven't had that sound in my head for ages. i thought it was long gone...back to therapy i spose.

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estrangler May 9 2004, 14:21:13 UTC
isn't it orange?

primary colours = red, blue, yellow.

orange = red + yellow

thus, complementary.

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ninfreak16 May 9 2004, 14:25:30 UTC
nah... that's subtractive colour mixing which involves masking out different frequencies. that's why when you mix all the colours together you get this ugly brown mess.

the actual three primary colours are red, green, and blue, shown through additive colour mixing which involves the mixing of light. have a look at your TV set, it should say RGB for red-green-blue wavelength mixing to produce all the other colours.

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estrangler May 9 2004, 14:34:02 UTC
yeah i know about rgb from editing photos and whatnot. to me the old primary school way of learning it [primary and secondary colours] seems more real and pure and right, but i guess both are correct in this case. there's no reason why either would be more appropriate, coz the question didn't give any context.

in any case describing blue as the opposite of another colour is just a cop out, nic. and look what you got us into.

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ninfreak16 May 9 2004, 14:35:39 UTC
yeah we are both right...

mixing paint = subtractive
mixing light = additive
mixing stupidity = nicola!

UNNNGH! NICE ONE NICOLA!

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estrangler May 9 2004, 14:38:36 UTC
Yeah, Nicola!

You realise that all of this is your fault. you could've just said "the colour of your finger when i tie string around it really tightly", but nooooo, you just had to be difficult. tut tut. what will we do with you.

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