A prism muddy-ing my colors is a fun thing I’d like to sleep and dream about.
In RadioLab — Colors under WNYCStudios, 1665 Issac Newton sits in a lone, shaded room with only a hole poked in its wall. The light spreading into the deepest parts of the dark room is interesting and fun to imagine.
RadioLab notes the idea that mixing cyan with another color—say yellow— creates not one middle green but rather hundreds of different variations of green, teal, and other colors between cyan and yellow. This is very believable in the eyes of a digital artist! Especially in programs such as SAI, Illustrator, Clip Studio Paint which heavily apply the use of a digital color wheel. Under these programs come a powerful access to hundreds of colors under our fingertips. I can pick vibrant teals and pinks using my tablet pen—colors in which could take weeks to mix perfectly under traditional painting medium.
This reminds me of the arduous process of making digital art prints and converting my colors from RGB to CYMK— as printing those vibrant teals and pinks I just picked will almost always not match what is on my tablet screen. RadioLab’s podcast is a soothing (yet unsettling) reminder of how colors work and translate from digital into physical.
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