{"id":3785,"date":"2014-06-05T21:18:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T03:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=3785"},"modified":"2014-06-05T21:23:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T03:23:26","slug":"chartreuse-and-puce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/chartreuse-and-puce\/","title":{"rendered":"Chartreuse and Puce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I should weight in about <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/2821769\/directx-apple-metal-opengl\/\">Apple&#8217;s Metal announcement<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2014\/02\/20\/google-launches-project-tango\/\">Google&#8217;s Tango smartphone<\/a>,\u00a0or talk about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/05\/oculus-rift-4\/\">Oculus Rift<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/questvisual.com\/\">Word Lens<\/a> (which really is cool and free for a short time, so get it now), or something. But, others have said enough on them, so let&#8217;s talk about two colors, chartreuse and puce.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/questionable-content\/\">blogged about chartreuse before<\/a>\u00a0(and answers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/questionable-answers\/\">here<\/a>). The gist: it&#8217;s a color that a lot of people think they know, but don&#8217;t (including myself, once upon a time). Get it fixed in your mind before reading further. I decided to actually make it a tiny part of the Udacity MOOC, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udacity.com\/course\/viewer#!\/c-cs291\/l-91376562\/e-147756147\/m-147756148\">asking students about it<\/a>\u00a0for fun. 10,450 students responded, and here are the results:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>41% said yellow-green<\/li>\n<li>22% said red-orange<\/li>\n<li>19% didn&#8217;t know<\/li>\n<li>18% said deep purple<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please use this knowledge for good, or evil. So what about puce? Well, last night I was trying to think about other colors I wasn&#8217;t sure about. I know what drab is &#8211; that&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Academic_regalia_in_the_United_States#Intercollegiate_colors\">the color of commerce, accountancy, and business<\/a>\u00a0(hey, I don&#8217;t make this stuff up). One I though of\u00a0was puce (aka, peuce, puse, peuse). I again got it wrong. Also, it turns out this has to be about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Puce\">the most disgusting color name ever<\/a> &#8211; you&#8217;ve been warned. It sounds nicer in French, though.<\/p>\n<p>This is a mostly content-free post (you really should see Word Lens, though &#8211; it&#8217;s like magic), but I should have an interesting color-related announcement next week, if all goes well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I should weight in about Apple&#8217;s Metal announcement, or Google&#8217;s Tango smartphone,\u00a0or talk about Oculus Rift, or Word Lens (which really is cool and free for a short time, so get it now), or something. But, others have said enough on them, so let&#8217;s talk about two colors, chartreuse and puce. I&#8217;ve blogged about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[565],"class_list":["post-3785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-colors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3787,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785\/revisions\/3787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}