sw00435math-colors.hex.rgb.2

Math       Color Names and Digital Reality


 Having seen sites on which multiple variations of gray
 are shown and are given numbers such as gray 7, I
 did some searching this morning and found this site:
 Graphics Magick where grays are assigned percentage
 values, with 0 being black and 100 being white.  When
 a color is given a language name, the digital realities, i.e.,
 mathematical realities, of the systems being used are at
 that moment sublimated by the fictive, the poetical.  To
 name 00ff00 / 0,255,0 green, light green, bright green,
 lime, or my mother's favorite is essentially a pleasantry
 which only minimally describes fact.  Because black
 needs to be "zero" and not "one", and because white
 (for practical reasons) was set at "255", there are 256
 gradations.  Given the red/green/blue primaries, we are
 faced with 256³ (16,777,216) possible colors. I don't know
 about you, but unless someone or some robot has already
 given a language name to each of these, I suggest using
 the rgb numbers.  Since 255,0,0 is the brightest pure red
 and 1,0,0 is the darkest pure red, 255,254,254 is the most
 nearly white red even if it seems gray.  If I tried to give a
 name to each possible color, how long would it take me?   
 If I tried to write a poem about each, how long would that 
 take?  Maybe we should assign each possible color to each  
 of 16,777,216 humans for the purpose of giving each color
 in our pantheon a name.  Maybe 16,777,216 volunteers
 could be found.  What a bouquet!
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 Has someone created a fireproof, damage-resistant, energy
 self-sufficient house/ replete with pontoons in case a flood
 races toward it?  That would be a better project.
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 Read Kenneth Brecher's remarks in article by Robert Roy Britt
 in the 25 June 2002 issue of Science
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to go to my colors.hex.rgb entry

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Brian A. J. Salchert