(edited by Mo Mo.1947)
Explanation for Cyanide Dye set at "Purple"?
Someone did do the math right.
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Someone did do the math right.
I’m not even sure what this means. Do you mean to say someone “didn’t” do the math right?
I don’t see many topics on this. It’s most curious to label something teal as purple… I would think other people would mention this.
(edited by Mo Mo.1947)
Typo on my part, sorry.
There’s a formula to convert RGB into Hue.
This may be due to four of the six dyes in the nightmare set were purple and someone just didn’t bother to figure it out. It clearly wasn’t green like the limonite dye.
Wouldn’t be funny if they game the job to add these colors to the dye categories to someone who’s color blind and it looked like the purple dyes to them.
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Exactly the first thing came across my mind. Color blind. Then I just shrugs it off.
- doranduck, 2016 on Lore in Raids
Assigning colors to a specific hue can be arbitrary; there’s as much ‘art’ and ‘eye of the beholder’ to it as there is science. On other hand, the choice of purple seems strange.
https://www.colorcodehex.com/005562/
- RGB shows no red, ~33% green & ~38% blue
- CMYK shows 100% cyan, ~13% magenta, 0% yellow, ~61% black
That suggests that blue (or even green) would be more accurate, given the limited choices available.
Hue calculation puts at at 184 degrees? which is slightly green of Cyan. But we don’t have a Cyan catagory so green?
It’s interesting that they decided for categories the primary and secondary colors, grey scale and muddled brown.
Edit: oops, swapped green and blue values. So blue?
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(edited by Behellagh.1468)
Assigning colors to a specific hue can be arbitrary; there’s as much ‘art’ and ‘eye of the beholder’ to it as there is science. On other hand, the choice of purple seems strange.
https://www.colorcodehex.com/005562/
- RGB shows no red, ~33% green & ~38% blue
- CMYK shows 100% cyan, ~13% magenta, 0% yellow, ~61% black
That suggests that blue (or even green) would be more accurate, given the limited choices available.
Nice website! As arbitrary as color categorization might be, Cyanide Dye is definitely not stimulating red cones at all, which is what anything “purple” does.
I made bug reports for this color long ago but there it remains in the “purple” category.
Official API stats for this color (not really anything you don’t already know):
id:1252,
name:Cyanide,
base_rgb:[128,26,26],
cloth:{brightness:-5, contrast:1.28906, hue:185, saturation:1.01563, lightness:1.5625, rgb:[0,85,98]},
leather:{brightness:-5, contrast:1.28906, hue:178, saturation:0.78125, lightness:1.5625, rgb:[0,83,79]},
metal:{brightness:-3, contrast:1.40625, hue:178, saturation:1.01563, lightness:1.5625, rgb:[0,92,86]}
So Cyan leaning toward green or blue depending on the material attribute.
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Yeah, I used the wiki’s numbers for cloth, which is directly translated from the API. As Mo Mo says, no way that counts as a cousin to Thistle or Phlox.
If you look, they have moved it to the Blues now, along with the change to outfit dye channel access.
Hurray! I won’t have to question my sanity anymore!
Well…maybe I’ll still have to…