Hi Terry,
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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Martin
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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?
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>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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>The advantage in design theory and research is between fixed and known
>variety and 'infinite' variety.
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>I welcome thoughts/comments.
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>Best wishes,
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>Terence
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