CompuServe Messages

If I may add my two cents, this is a great example of where the art theory that they teach you in school just doesn't hold up. The color theories generally posit that any given color is a mixture of the primaries, as though orange were a combination of red and yellow. That makes as much sense as saying the the note A# is a combination of G and Bb. We have to remember that the color we see is a symphony of differing wave lengths. There is no one red, rather a spectrum of them, a spectrum of oranges and of yellows. The poor computer would be hard pressed to deal with that so we compromise. I came to that realization after spending a long hard day trying to match a particular shade of orange, every color that I could come up with was lacking in one or more respects. The final color I chose was lacked both red and blue, but both were set at the maximum. I realized that the problem was that I could not get the correct frequency of red or the correct frequency of blue or green to match the sample that I was given. The color selection bars on the materials editor are in the right direction, only if you could get a color that was combinations of the purple, red and yellow-green.Like notes on a scale, harmonics of color, saturation like the signal to noise ratio and intensity like the volume. It seems wierd till you struggle with 16 million colors and you still can't find the right one. Please forgive my musical allegory of A# and Bb, its late, and I realize that they are one and the same. How about A as a combination of G and B?, or is orange a harmonic of red and yellow?