More Color Math

gabemott's picture

Well, I tried the simple math to create a middle child color by averaging the hue value of the two parents. But no such luck, I'm wondering if this needs javascript again.

The two backgrounds are moving slowly through the hue spectrum and different different period lengths. Occasionally they are they same hue.

The middle square is supposed to be the middle child all the time, but it's not. The left and right squares are supposed to be children closest to the background parent on each respective side.

The inspiration for this is: http://samesameordifferent.com (if you check this out keep trying "new" (then smoosh) until you've seen both same and different)

And the image attached done in illustrator gives an example of what it would look like if I had done the math correctly. I thought averaging the hues would get the middle child, but I can't sort out why it doesn't (all the time).

Any ideas?

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jersmi's picture
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Use RGB instead of HSL then average each component. I appreciate anybody exploring work with color and perception. :)

jersmi's picture
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On closer inspection here's a comp. Actually, I am having a parallel conversation with a friend about exploring some color tools for QC. Props to his work: http://chromaticarts.net/cms/

Edit: then I just realized you could achieve what I did easily with the Color Mixer patch, too. This would lend itself well to iteration.

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adamfenn28's picture
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Here's a version that does what I think @jersmi was suggesting.

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jersmi's picture
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Yep, that's it. Fwiw, here's mine which does the exact same thing.

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jrs's picture
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I stumbled upon this site the other day which I'm sure you will love

http://colorisrelative.com/original.html

gabemott's picture
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Great link: chromaticarts.net Beautiful work and nice quotes. I'll check out your composition now. Thanks so much.

gabemott's picture
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Such beautiful work you guys. Thank you. I could stare at these for lengths... the longer I stare the greater the eye fatigue, the more halations and more the colors seem to become transparent. I just love it.

I was amazed at how simple the composition was until I clicked and realized there is much for me to learn. I don't even know what "things" are being pulled from the library that are then manipulated. How are you creating these so quickly? Ok, enough admiration. Just let me say thanks!

I'm going to dig into the math and see if I can sort out what is happening. My goal it to drop this into the tryplex stuff. We are setting up the kinect and I look forward to USER 1 being the middle child. As he steps from the left background to the right background, he will perceive himself changing color thought he is not. The USER 2 becomes the left child, USER 3 the right child... I'll post what I get. Not sure if any of you are using the kinect or tryplex though.

Thank again.

If you're interested, here's a simple video of what happens when you move the swatches onto different backgrounds. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OWDQX3pYBU

jrs's picture
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A cool idea - can't wait to see what happens

Edit - just realised the site i linked to above is actually your site gabe, nice work

jersmi's picture
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high compliments, referring someone to their own site, eh? :)

yeah, gabe, appears that you and the author of chromaticarts are two peas in a pod. you should drop him a line, he'd appreciate it.

gabemott's picture
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Thanks you guys. Gonna try to get this interactive. I made some changes to the size of squares for little better visuals.

I also separated the 3 squares so that they each appear the same. I realize I went to the first one @jersmi did - without the iterator - but that's only because I thought it would be easier to make the boxes moveable.

Now, how do the squares become moveable to the kinect OSC stick guy!

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gabemott's picture
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Sebastian and Nicholas made an OSCeleton "hit" composition and I plugged in simultaneous contrast study. Very very rough. Just thought I'd share if anyone is interested. For the color stuff, this would work better if the box was static until it got bumped or moved by the guy (and would be better with the three boxes) but baby steps...

I'm working on getting the box, once captured to be still.

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