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45 votes
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When video games were brown
27 votes -
Real-time 3D shader on the Game Boy Color
14 votes -
Has anyone else intentionally lowered their phone's screen's saturation?
For a while now, I was getting micro-annoyed by all the "colour vomit" in my app drawer and on some modern websites and apps - even with my fairly minimal set of apps. Thus, around a month ago, I...
For a while now, I was getting micro-annoyed by all the "colour vomit" in my app drawer and on some modern websites and apps - even with my fairly minimal set of apps.
Thus, around a month ago, I spontaneously decided to reduce my screen's saturation by almost half... And it actually felt pretty natural! I stopped noticing it merely minutes later, and I still never notice it unless I look at another screen while using my phone or unless I'm trying to take a photo of something where colours are very important - like when I wanted to show someone my eyeshadow blend recently. Today, my partner and I were watching old pictures/videos of the cat, and she didn't notice the lower saturation either.
I'm aware someone on Tildes is using a phone in pure greyscale mode, but is anyone using the same "trick" as me? What are your experiences
27 votes -
The hydrant directory
15 votes -
“Tomato” versus “#FF6347”—the tragicomic history of CSS color names
39 votes -
BairesDev - Palette app
13 votes -
The color of the future - a history of blue
8 votes -
Museum of Color - from ancient ochre to blacker than Vanta Black
13 votes -
Girlie pens, again? Why ordinary things go pink. (2012)
15 votes -
On attempts to replace artificial food dyes by Mars Inc. (2016)
21 votes -
The hydrant directory: A public domain design resource created from public US infrastructure
8 votes -
Is my blue your blue?
48 votes -
Poke_Transporter_GB: A Pokémon Generation I/II to Generation III transfer tool
19 votes -
Study: Language affects how quickly we perceive shades of colour
15 votes -
The strange origin story behind Akira's megacity, Neo Tokyo
12 votes -
I made the world's blackest flipbook
11 votes -
Why are plants green? To reduce the noise in photosynthesis.
25 votes -
Western exclusive Nintendo games (first party)
5 votes -
Japan uses blue instead of green on traffic lights
25 votes -
Climate change is changing the ocean’s color
16 votes -
How one company owns color
18 votes -
Butterfly-inspired films create vibrant colors while passively cooling objects
9 votes -
Barbie Pink: What do Mattel’s rights in the valuable color look like?
7 votes -
What color is the sun?
15 votes -
Scientists at Purdue have created a white paint that, when applied, can reduce the surface temperature on a roof and cool the building beneath it
56 votes -
We made an epic fireworks display to explain the science of fireworks
8 votes -
What are two things that are your favourite colour?
I would like you to think of two things that you associate with your favourite colour. For example, if your favourite colour were black you might choose "the night sky" and "New Zealand rugby."...
I would like you to think of two things that you associate with your favourite colour. For example, if your favourite colour were black you might choose "the night sky" and "New Zealand rugby." Try not to put too much thought into it, and don't expand the spoiler sections below until you have your two things.
The point of this
These two things that you have thought of are supposed to describe your personality. Please, discuss with the class. Please also share any other fun thought exercises you have done as part of teambuilding/icebreaking sessions. They're tacky and dumb, but I enjoy hearing about them, if just to cringe.Some backstory
Inspired by the "favourite colour" thread over in ~tildes, I thought back to an old job where as part of an ice-breaking exercise we were tasked to do exactly this. We all sat around in a circle, and listed our two things that were our favourite colours. There were a lot of sports teams, flowers, foods... that sort of thing. My turn came around, and I announced that my two objects were fire & blood (I hadn't seen or read Game of Thrones at this stage either). When we had all revealed our pair of coloured items, the guide on this awkward teambuilding journey revealed that the two things we had picked were indicative of our personalities. Cue an awful lot of funny and/or concerned looks pointed my direction. I never lived it down, but nor did I last long in that job before actually wanting to burn the place to the ground, so...13 votes -
Why it took us thousands of years to see the colour violet
6 votes -
McDonald's releases new game for old console: Grimace's Birthday, on Game Boy Color
26 votes -
The new Barbie movie used so much pink paint on set that it caused an international shortage, according to its production designer
22 votes -
Why Kyoto prohibits bright colours
7 votes -
What’s the correct color of bees? In Austria, it’s a toxic topic.
15 votes -
Arne Aksel: ‘Denmark had become this decorative no-go land. We've been in a white or gray or beige box for what – 20, 25 years? I think people have had enough.’
5 votes -
The toxic history of color
2 votes -
I have to pirate colours now?
8 votes -
Why do new cars look like this? (Gray and without any flake, as if formed out of dough)
14 votes -
Designing accessible color systems
5 votes -
How ‘The Dress’ sparked a neuroscience breakthrough
8 votes -
Why do we see color?
4 votes -
Why we're blind to the color blue
9 votes -
New electronic paper displays brilliant colors
17 votes -
Werner's Nomenclature of Colours
4 votes -
The library of rare colors
10 votes -
Whitest paint ever created could have air-con like cooling effects
10 votes -
The political meaning of colors around the world
3 votes -
Meet YInMn, the first new blue pigment in two centuries
12 votes -
What color was “Apple Beige”
11 votes -
The first blue pigment discovered in 200 years is finally commercially available. Here’s why it already has a loyal following.
20 votes -
Verdigris: The color of oxidation, statues, and impermanence
5 votes