Help me settle an argument. Can you see any hint of green in this car:
For bonus points, who the fuck not only selects this colour, but also selects blue leather for the interior?
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 16:55 ] |
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Help me settle an argument. Can you see any hint of green in this car: For bonus points, who the fuck not only selects this colour, but also selects blue leather for the interior? (Pistonheads) |
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| Author: | kalmar [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 16:57 ] |
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I used to have a car that colour, and it had blue cloth seats too  It is yellow. Hydrasun Yellow in fact. |
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| Author: | The Rev Owen [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 16:58 ] |
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It's yellow. There is a faint hint of green, but not enough to make it anything other than yellow. |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 16:58 ] |
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It's yellow, but it's towards the greener end of the yellow spectrum. |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 16:58 ] |
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Monkey says: just-ripe banana colour. |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 16:59 ] |
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Also, I think the font on his numberplate might be illegal. |
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| Author: | markg [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 17:00 ] |
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It might look different in real life I guess but looking at that picture on here it's about as yellow as any yellow car I've seen. |
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| Author: | Craig [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 17:01 ] |
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It's the inside of a lime. |
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| Author: | Zio [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 17:04 ] |
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Yellow is for outlandish cars and hot hatches only. Anyone that selects it for something such as a Maserati or an Aston Martin should be made to forfeit thir car on account of their terrible taste. Preferably to me. |
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| Author: | kalmar [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 17:06 ] |
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Zio wrote: Yellow is for outlandish cars and hot hatches only. Anyone that selects it for something such as a Maserati or an Aston Martin should be made to forfeit thir car on account of their terrible taste. Preferably to me. Mine was a Sierra estate. You could've had it if you'd said. Did Westwood actually say that then, dawg? |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 17:06 ] |
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It is the colour of gays. |
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| Author: | kalmar [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 17:07 ] |
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It is a gay colour, no arguments here. |
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| Author: | myp [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 17:07 ] |
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It's yellow. Anyone who says anything else is clearly suffering from a brain malfunction. |
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| Author: | RuySan [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 17:11 ] |
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it looks like a dildo and its yellow |
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| Author: | AceAceBaby [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 17:17 ] |
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It's yellow. Any green is probably due to digital imaging RGB malarky. Blue is ok with yellow though, I think the color wheel says so. |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 17:19 ] |
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This is interesting. I grabbed a copy of the pic in Sumo Paint (my new favourite toy) and used the eyedropper tool on a bit of the bootlid that was neutral in tone, neither in shadow or highlight. It was hex code #dadd44, where the three couplets are red (0xDA, or 218/255), green (0xDD, or 221/255) and blue (0x44, or 68/255). I think that’s pretty greenish. And it looks greenish to me, although I accept Ace's suggestion that they may be down to the photo than the car. And yet a few people I've shown it to don't see any green at all. |
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| Author: | devilman [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 17:20 ] |
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It's red. Oh, the one at the front? Yellow and yellow only. |
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| Author: | myp [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 17:20 ] |
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The Bournemouth buses also say yes: 
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| Author: | kalmar [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 17:21 ] |
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I'll admit it is at the greener end of yellow, but nowhere near being "greenish-yellow". yellow greenish yellow The car is yellow. |
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| Author: | Sheepeh [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 17:24 ] |
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I'd say yellow with hints of green, personally. But my monitor is calibrated so it can pick out whacking great big "errors" in amateur photoshops that other people just can't see, so I'm not sure if it's the picture, or other people's monitors just showing "YELLOW". |
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| Author: | Joans [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 17:28 ] |
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richardgaywood wrote: This is interesting. I grabbed a copy of the pic in Sumo Paint (my new favourite toy) and used the eyedropper tool on a bit of the bootlid that was neutral in tone, neither in shadow or highlight. It was hex code #dadd44, where the three couplets are red (0xDA, or 218/255), green (0xDD, or 221/255) and blue (0x44, or 68/255). I think that’s pretty greenish. And it looks greenish to me, although I accept Ace's suggestion that they may be down to the photo than the car. And yet a few people I've shown it to don't see any green at all. White is #ffffff, that's 255/255 green. Would you say that was "pretty greenish"? Edit - you could use your argument to say the car was pretty-reddish. Edit2- It's yellow. |
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| Author: | AceAceBaby [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 17:29 ] |
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richardgaywood wrote: It was hex code #dadd44, where the three couplets are red (0xDA, or 218/255), green (0xDD, or 221/255) and blue (0x44, or 68/255). Um. That's almost exactly the same red and green values, which makes yellow in RGB color space. There's a difference of 3/255 between them, or 1.18% into "green" from "pure yellow". There is some blue, ok, but blue isn't very relevant to "greenness" in RGB Jeah, Joans, you tell 'im. |
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| Author: | andyb [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 17:31 ] |
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It not green, this is green: 
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| Author: | markg [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 17:32 ] |
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I'd call that lime myself or just maybe Kawasaki Green, not yer typical green though. |
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| Author: | sinister agent [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 17:37 ] |
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It is yellow. I didn't expect it to be yellow. Infinite obscurity points for anyone who gets this reference. |
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| Author: | Pod [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 17:42 ] |
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Kids: It is yellow. Colourwise, it is made up of lots of (equal amounts of) red and green. If you're a bit red-deficient then you're going to see more of the green. Hence you'll think it's greeny. |
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| Author: | Dimrill [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 17:44 ] |
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You need an extra option: "Goppin" |
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| Author: | Cras [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 17:44 ] |
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richardgaywood wrote: And it looks greenish to me. Your eyes are broken. |
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| Author: | BikNorton [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 17:55 ] |
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Definitely yellow. So many LCDs have really odd colour gamuts though, I wouldn't be surprised if it looked green to quite a few of us. I was fortunate enough to have one of those (in a much more appropriate pearlescent black) stopped at some lights alongside me, and even fortunater to have it aggressively accelerated away on green. Fucking hell they sound nice, nicer than any Ferrari I've heard in real. |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 17:59 ] |
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Stop proving me wrong fuckers. |
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| Author: | BikNorton [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 18:01 ] |
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Joans wrote: richardgaywood wrote: This is interesting. I grabbed a copy of the pic in Sumo Paint (my new favourite toy) and used the eyedropper tool on a bit of the bootlid that was neutral in tone, neither in shadow or highlight. It was hex code #dadd44, where the three couplets are red (0xDA, or 218/255), green (0xDD, or 221/255) and blue (0x44, or 68/255). I think that’s pretty greenish. And it looks greenish to me, although I accept Ace's suggestion that they may be down to the photo than the car. And yet a few people I've shown it to don't see any green at all. White is #ffffff, that's 255/255 green. Would you say that was "pretty greenish"? Edit - you could use your argument to say the car was pretty-reddish. Edit2- It's yellow. * Absurdly, I've had to know this in the last week at work, when normally I need know nothing about colour mixing - or colours at all. I don't normally even have cause to use a colour picker. Or any colours at all, in fact - my usual use of colour is restricted to setting up my development environment after reinstalling Windows. |
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| Author: | Pod [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 18:06 ] |
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richardgaywood wrote: Stop proving me wrong fuckers. Do the following: Open paint. Draw a bright red. Draw a bright yellow. Draw a bright Green... does the yellow look more like one that the other? |
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| Author: | BikNorton [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 18:07 ] |
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Funnily enough, the Simpsons on C4 right now has very green-looking skins, much unlike Gaywood's avatar. |
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| Author: | Dudley [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 18:13 ] |
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Yellow. Pure Yellow. |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 18:20 ] |
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Pod wrote: richardgaywood wrote: Stop proving me wrong fuckers. Do the following: Open paint. Draw a bright red. Draw a bright yellow. Draw a bright Green... does the yellow look more like one that the other? I don't think he he saying that the car looks green, Pod, rather that the yellow of the car has a slight green hue to it. |
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| Author: | Shin [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 18:50 ] |
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I cannot see how there is any green there at all. CUSTARD YELLOW I hate yellow cars. But in that same game we play I could punch someone when seeing it |
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| Author: | devilman [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 18:57 ] |
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richardgaywood wrote: This is interesting. I grabbed a copy of the pic in Sumo Paint (my new favourite toy) and used the eyedropper tool on a bit of the bootlid that was neutral in tone, neither in shadow or highlight. It was hex code #dadd44, where the three couplets are red (0xDA, or 218/255), green (0xDD, or 221/255) and blue (0x44, or 68/255). "Hi. Is that Pistonheads?" "Yup. How can I help you?" "I'm phoning about the Modena you have listed" "Oh yeah, the yellow one?" "Er, no.. the #dadd44 one" "Yeah, the yellow one" |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 19:04 ] |
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I opened up the car picture supplied by Richie G and eye-dropped three areas of the car colour - one in semi-shade (top), one in the most neatral area I could find (middle) and one with the light hitting it (bottom). To my eyes it does look like the yellow of the car has green tones - in all tonal areas but especially in areas of shadow - because part of the car is in shadow it seems to increase, to my eyes, the green tinge that I percieve. I made a relatively warm yellow patch as well, if you put the two side by side you can see how the eye might perceive some areas of green in the picture. |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 19:05 ] |
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Actually, eye droppered and isolated they look really green... |
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| Author: | AceAceBaby [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 19:07 ] |
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The color temperature or white balance is probably off anyway. |
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| Author: | Pod [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 19:10 ] |
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Mimi wrote: Pod wrote: richardgaywood wrote: Stop proving me wrong fuckers. Do the following: Open paint. Draw a bright red. Draw a bright yellow. Draw a bright Green... does the yellow look more like one that the other? I don't think he he saying that the car looks green, Pod, rather that the yellow of the car has a slight green hue to it. But it doesn't look green! Look at it's colour values I think Rirchard Gaywood might not see reds so well... it's hardly uncommon in men. |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 19:12 ] |
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Make me stop looking at this picture. It is making me queasy. |
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| Author: | Dimrill [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 19:29 ] |
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So, in conclusion, Richard Gaywood = an air of Welsh wrongness. |
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| Author: | Pod [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 19:58 ] |
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Mimi wrote: Make me stop looking at this picture. It is making me queasy. They're all just different brightnesses of the that mega-yellow? Infact: Look at the RGB values. In all cases the green and red are within 2 units of each other, if not the same. Which just means they are dimmer versions of the mega-yellow. ergo: Not green in any way! |
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| Author: | Shin [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 20:00 ] |
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Pod wrote: Mimi wrote: Make me stop looking at this picture. It is making me queasy. They're all just different brightnesses of the that mega-yellow? Infact: Look at the RGB values. In all cases the green and red are within 2 units of each other, if not the same. Which just means they are dimmer versions of the mega-yellow. ergo: Not green in any way! This sounds logical, thus it must be true |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 20:04 ] |
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Dudley wrote: Yellow. Pure Yellow. Technically incorrect. It is very very very very yellow. |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 20:13 ] |
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This is pure yellow (attached). The yellows in that picture of the car have relatively high blue values (as opposed to the 0 blue value of the 'pure' yellow..) The colours as perceived are quite 'muddy' yellows with the inclusion of some blacks. If you add just a teeny tough of black paint to some yellow, it does look like a pale forest green. I am not saying that it is correct, but it is how many people see it - like adding a tiny spot of black to red would make a colour that many people would think of as brown. |
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| Author: | DBSnappa [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 20:22 ] |
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OK. Pure colours, such as this, have a tendency to be very subtly effected by their environment. It's impossible to isolate that colour unless you could shoot the car on a 18% grey background. I would be inclined to think it is a hue of the cadmium yellow colour, a pale one at that. Any green in it, to my eyes is likely to be attributable to the blue/grey sky and the grey tarmac - they are neutral/cool colours - if you cool yellow down it tends to look green. Ultimately Rich, it's yellow. It is most categorically not green. It might appear to have a very subtle green hue to it, but that is down to environment. Whichever way you slice it, it's an affront to the eyes and almost ruins one of the better looking cars out there. |
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| Author: | AceAceBaby [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 20:25 ] |
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Paint isn't really relevant when talking about colors on a screen. Yellow is made from red and green. The less red or blue in a color, the more green it is. The amount of blue doesn't have anything really to do with how green it is, because green is the G in RGB and it doesn't need any help. The colors are all close in red and green levels, which makes them yellows. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 20:27 ] |
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You also have to take into account the cars paint finish reflecting the surrounding colours. And obviously the image balance of the camera itself. And everyones monitor calibration. And everyones eyesight. And everyones colour perception. Obv. |
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