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| Subject: | Re: Does scale effect really exist for WWII AFVs? |  |
| Date: | Feb 18, 2005 |
| From: | Ardell Bourgeois | |
Colour changes, due to distance are an observable fact. In order to create depth on a two-dimensional painting, atmospheric perspective is used to replicate what is actually happening in real life. All colours will loose chroma and shift to the ‘horizon’ colour with distance. An object 50% of the distance to the ‘horizon’ (where everything disappears or appears the same colour) will be a roughly 50/50 balance between the colour as it appears when directly in front of you and the horizon colour. At 25% of the distance it will be 75/25 original to horizon and so on. There is an exception with white, which tends to warm as it moves toward the ‘horizon’ colour.
An extreme example of this would be a foggy day where the ‘horizon’ is brought up to a relatively short distance. You will be able to observe the colour shift in a fence or tree line as it fades into the background. There will also be a loss of detail with distance.
How this is translated into modeling is debatable. On a bright clear day, when you can see for miles the distances to get to the 50/50 ratio can be quite long. I guess if you were building a diorama set in foggy, rainy or some other highly atmospheric environment you could calculate a viewing distance in scale then determine what the ratio is to your imagined horizon. This would give a scale representation of atmospheric distance that could be called a scale effect.
A little food for thought.
Ardell |
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 | Does scale effect really exist for WWII AFVs? - Saul Garcia - Feb 17, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Does scale effect really exist for WWII AFVs? - John Barnicoat - Feb 17, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Does scale effect really exist for WWII AFVs? - Steve Campbell - Feb 17, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Does scale effect really exist for WWII AFVs? - Paul A. Owen - Feb 18, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: Does scale effect really exist for WWII AFVs? - Ardell Bourgeois - Feb 18, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Does scale effect really exist for WWII AFVs? - David Byrden - Feb 19, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Does scale effect really exist for WWII AFVs? - Steve Dowty - Feb 19, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Paging Professor Herbert - Paul A. Owen - Feb 19, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Does scale effect really exist for WWII AFVs? - Al Crawford - Feb 19, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: Does scale effect really exist for WWII AFVs? - John Prigent - Feb 20, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . Great Point John! - Saul Garcia - Feb 20, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: Does scale effect really exist for WWII AFVs? - David Byrden - Feb 22, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Does scale effect really exist for WWII AFVs? (Longish) - Thomas Naser - Feb 21, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Does scale effect really exist for WWII AFVs? - Rick Bennett - Feb 22, 2005 |
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