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As of this month of May, I will post a series of monthly ‘riddles‘ of sorts for whoever wishes to figure them out – actually, they will be more like exercises, the word ‘riddle’ just sounds more attractive. You can answer on the comments section below. I will provide the real answer at the end of the month – yes, there is a larger purpose to this, and yes, there is an answer.
Using the chart below, answer the following:
1. At what point precisely (what html code) does red start?
2. Which html code represents the exact blend between ff008a and ff0900?
3. Divide the spectrum into the following categories: pink, red, orange, yellow and green. How many boxes are there in each category?
1. ff003e
2. ff003a
3. Pink = 70; Red = 70; Orange = 182; Yellow = 40; Green = 86
Can’t wait to see the answers!
1. ff0038
2. ff044
3. pink = 76, red = 64, orange = 126, yellow = 112, green = 84 = 432
pink (ff008e-ff039), red (ff0038-ff0e00), orange (ff1100-ff9e00), yellow (ffa100-e0ff00), green (ddff00-80ff00)
I’ll be interested and scared to find out what this says about me.
The point is that color, like so many other things, is a continuous function. One color blends into the next and at some point you say “Oh, now it is a new color!” However, each person could choose a slightly different point to identify this change and none of them would be wrong. It is simply an artifact of applying human-generated labels to something that is continuously varying. Evolution is the same way. When do we say something has stopped being one species and started being another? It is a false dichotomy.
1. going down the chart: ff003e, going up: ff4100 [but the more I stare it, the less gradient detail I perceive]
2. ff004b
3. pink = 70, red = 126, orange = 140, yellow = 56, green = 70
The first two ‘correct’ answers are missing from the chart, and so can not be answered, as we’ve been instructed “Using the chart below…”
Folks… HTML codes are ‘precise’ numerical codes that represent a precisely defined mix of RGB colours… there’s no ‘guess work’ involved and it doesn’t involve perception or the quality of your monitor.