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| Subject: | Re: Colour perception with scale |  |
| Date: | Jan 4, 2008 |
| From: | Bruce Probst | |
The "scale factor" makes no sense to me, and I agree with David's post.
I've heard the argument that the "scale factor" simulates the increased atmospheric effects of looking at a big thing from a long way away. I.E., the tank at the end of the street appears smaller than the one I'm standing next to (because it's further away) and the colour is different because there's a street's worth of air in the way.
That would be fine, if I want to model a tank as seen from a street away. But if I'm going to do that I may as well forget about fine details (they won't be visible), all straight lines should be blurry, etc. "Detailing" and "scale effect" are contradictory; they should never be combined on the same model.
The reality is that my model doesn't look small because it's a long way away; it looks small because it IS small. And being small doesn't change colour, or how we perceive colour.
All that being said: at the end of the day, what "looks right" is what's important. If you think that applying a "scale effect" makes the model "look right" to you, then who am I to argue? It's the same issue as finding the "true shade" of a camouflage colour: either it "looks right", or it doesn't. Not a lot of point in arguing about it, in my view. |
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 | Colour perception with scale - Paul A. Owen - Jan 4, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Colour perception with scale - David Byrden - Jan 4, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Colour perception with scale - Roy Chow - Jan 4, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: Colour perception with scale - Bruce Probst - Jan 4, 2008 |
| . . . . . . 1:7 or a new can of worms - Glenn Gerson - Jan 6, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Colour perception with scale - Steve Camley - Jan 5, 2008 |
| . . . . . . trompe l'oeil - Roy Chow - Jan 6, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Colour perception with scale - Gary Cooper - Jan 6, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Colour perception with scale - Mike Siggins - Jan 7, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Colour perception with scale - Andrew Herbert - Jan 9, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: Colour perception with scale - Stewart Rose - Feb 9, 2008 |
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