{"id":5952,"date":"2022-12-23T11:35:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T17:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=5952"},"modified":"2022-12-23T15:00:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T21:00:43","slug":"seven-things-for-december-23-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/seven-things-for-december-23-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Things for December 23, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Let&#8217;s focus on colors. We&#8217;re in, we&#8217;re out, it&#8217;s quick, unlike yesterday&#8217;s post:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Jos Stam told me about the color named <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isabelline_(colour)\">Isabelline<\/a>. The story&#8217;s probably apocryphal, but fun. This one&#8217;s now in my neurons along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/chartreuse-and-puce\/\">chartreuse and puce<\/a>. As well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/resources\/RTNews\/html\/rtnv3n4.html#art3\">the trademarked pink<\/a> (I found the full rundown <a href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/appellate-courts\/F2\/774\/1116\/10307\/\">here<\/a>).<\/li><li>Is it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petscribbles.com\/is-it-fuchsia-or-fuschia\/\">fuschia or fuchsia<\/a>? I finally forced myself to learn the right one a few years back.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/car-paint-colors\/\">Car paint in real life<\/a>: it&#8217;s complicated.<\/li><li>Harvard&#8217;s art museum has a <a href=\"https:\/\/harvardartmuseums.org\/tour\/a-history-of-color-an-audio-tour-of-the-forbes-pigment-collection\">collection of pigment for colors<\/a>. It&#8217;s off limits to most people, in part because some contain dangerous chemicals. Someone just tipped me off that there are video tours, however. Here are three: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GVq7GC4WsvI\">short<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F8aVfqDKx1U\">medium<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rApTzWboLrA\">longer<\/a>.<\/li><li>Wikipedia has a crazy long list of colors, divided into parts. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_colors:_G%E2%80%93M\">Here&#8217;s G-M<\/a>. I like the duh text there, &#8220;Colors are an important part of visual arts, fashion, interior design, and many other fields and disciplines.&#8221; Proof that Wikipedia is meant for aliens who have never visited Earth before.<\/li><li>If you just can&#8217;t get enough about colors, consider getting the book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0143131141?tag=realtimerenderin\">The Secret Lives of Color<\/a><\/em>. Some you&#8217;ll know, some&#8217;s obscure knowledge (when did red, yellow, and blue become the primaries?), some&#8217;s more obscure knowledge (the long list of colors, each with  a story, making up the bulk of the book). It&#8217;s relatively cheap and, well, colorful &#8211; nicely produced.<\/li><li>Need more colors? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aiweirdness.com\/new-paint-colors-invented-by-neural-17-05-17\/\">AI&#8217;s got your back<\/a>. So so many great names here, I can&#8217;t even pick out just one. Just a few shown below.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ai_colors.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"265\" height=\"271\" src=\"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ai_colors.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5953\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s focus on colors. We&#8217;re in, we&#8217;re out, it&#8217;s quick, unlike yesterday&#8217;s post: Jos Stam told me about the color named Isabelline. The story&#8217;s probably apocryphal, but fun. This one&#8217;s now in my neurons along with chartreuse and puce. As well as the trademarked pink (I found the full rundown here). Is it fuschia or [&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":[],"class_list":["post-5952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5952","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=5952"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5957,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5952\/revisions\/5957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}