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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)

I used to have a car that colour, and it had blue cloth seats too

It is yellow.

Hydrasun Yellow in fact.

It's yellow. There is a faint hint of green, but not enough to make it anything other than yellow.

It's yellow, but it's towards the greener end of the yellow spectrum.

Monkey says: just-ripe banana colour.

Also, I think the font on his numberplate might be illegal.

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.

It's the inside of a lime.

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?

It is the colour of gays.

It is a gay colour, no arguments here.

It's yellow. Anyone who says anything else is clearly suffering from a brain malfunction.

it looks like a dildo

and its yellow

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.

It's red.

Oh, the one at the front? Yellow and yellow only.

The Bournemouth buses also say yes:

I'll admit it is at the greener end of yellow, but nowhere near being "greenish-yellow".

yellow
greenish yellow

The car is yellow.

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".

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.

It not green, this is green:

I'd call that lime myself or just maybe Kawasaki Green, not yer typical green though.

It is yellow.

I didn't expect it to be yellow.



Infinite obscurity points for anyone who gets this reference.

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.

You need an extra option: "Goppin"

Your eyes are broken.

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.

Stop proving me wrong fuckers.

Not only that, but yellow is full red, full green, no blue*. So the surprising thing is how blue that yellow is.

* 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.

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?

Funnily enough, the Simpsons on C4 right now has very green-looking skins, much unlike Gaywood's avatar.

Yellow. Pure Yellow.

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.

"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"

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.

Actually, eye droppered and isolated they look really green...

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.

Make me stop looking at this picture. It is making me queasy.

So, in conclusion, Richard Gaywood = an air of Welsh wrongness.

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!

Technically incorrect. It is very very very very yellow.

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.

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.

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.