2004-05-19 - 3:19 p.m.

Vincent Van Grillo (moi) has been a busy monkey, paintin' up a storm und shniffin' der materials until marvelous things are discovered, getting ready for mine big eBay onslaught.

Grillo has found that contrary to what he was told in skool, color theory am not a perfect science. When painting with the pure primary colors, me has found that although red and yellow make a good orange when mixed, the blue and yellow only make a mediocre green that cannot, no matter how it is mixed, create a green as good as the pure green that comes straight from the tube.

Most disturbingly, blue and red, which theoretically are supposed to make purple, actually make a range of shitty grays und browns. Me consulted an expert and was told that to get a really good true purple you must buy a ready-made one such as Dioxazine Purple rather than mixin' it yerself. Somethin' just seems wrong about all this but I cain't put ma stinky finger on it, Sarge. Why is purple so goldarbed spayshul?

In skool we were told that one can create any color from the three primaries, but in practice this is shimply not true. Even with black and white as options to temper der hues, all possible colors cannot be made.

And in HTML, for some reason the proper color scheme cannot be done by usin' the traditionimal red-yellow-blue system of primary colors. Much of the innernet operates on a skewed red-green-blue (RGB) system. Why? And of all the colors rendered in HTML, why does orange suffer? It is currently impossible to render in hexadecimal code a really bright "hot" orange that sizzles the eye in the same way that cyan and yellow do, even though obviously such hot orange colors exist in real life.

Fuck, Grillo just realized me has squeezing green paint on his sushi instead of the tube of wasabi paste. That's what me gets fer paintin' in der kitchen.

Tasty, though.

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