Explanation for Cyanide Dye set at "Purple"?

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Posted by: Mo Mo.1947

Mo Mo.1947

Hi,

I am trying to figure out why Cyanide Dye is labeled purple. It looks teal. It shows as very similar to “Deep Teal” dye just with better texturing.

The teal range of colors is on the green side of the blue spectrum so I don’t understand why it’s sorted as “purple”. Does it show up in the purple spectrum on some armors? Anyone have as screenshot of this? :S

Cyanide Dye isn’t any more purple than my character’s hair. They are both teal.

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Posted by: Behellagh.1468

Behellagh.1468

Someone did do the math right.

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Posted by: Mo Mo.1947

Mo Mo.1947

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.

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Posted by: Behellagh.1468

Behellagh.1468

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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Posted by: Iris Ng.9845

Iris Ng.9845

Exactly the first thing came across my mind. Color blind. Then I just shrugs it off.

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Posted by: Illconceived Was Na.9781

Illconceived Was Na.9781

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.

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Posted by: Behellagh.1468

Behellagh.1468

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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Mo Mo.1947

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.

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Posted by: Sariel V.7024

Sariel V.7024

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]}

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Posted by: Behellagh.1468

Behellagh.1468

So Cyan leaning toward green or blue depending on the material attribute.

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Posted by: Illconceived Was Na.9781

Illconceived Was Na.9781

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.

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Posted by: Donari.5237

Donari.5237

If you look, they have moved it to the Blues now, along with the change to outfit dye channel access.

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Posted by: Mo Mo.1947

Mo Mo.1947

Hurray! I won’t have to question my sanity anymore!

Well…maybe I’ll still have to…