I hesitate to drag people down another epistemological rabbit hole but color is neither a spectrum nor a set of things so the simple answer is: No.
(Although I’d be interested in answers to Martin’s questions.)
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> On Feb 19, 2016, at 4:17 AM, Salisbury, Martin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Could you elaborate on what those 'strong reasons' are?
>
> When trying to get to the bottom of how many colours are distinguishable
> by the human eye, we tend to encounter those dreaded words,'experts
> estimate ...' followed by any anything from 100,000 to 10 million. And of
> course perception of colour varies from individual to individual. I am
> wondering whether you mean that, even if we can't know something, we
> should pretend that we do in order to facilitate theory?
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> On 19/02/2016 08:42, "Terence Love" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Is it better to assume as an axiom in making design theory that colour
>> always comprises a set of fixed colours rather than assuming colour as
>> being a continuous spectrum?
>>
>> There seem to be strong reasons in theory and practice to make this
>> assumption, and that it is possible calculate exactly how big the set is
>> (i.e exactly how many different colours) for each design scenario.
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