I need to win an argument

  • @[email protected]
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    6515 days ago

    That’s RGB 1, 122, 134.

    So while it’s slightly more blue than it is green, I would argue that by calling it one or the other, you are cutting yourself off from a whole spectrum of wondrous complexity. Needing to win an argument denies you the subtle beauty of expanding your view of the world, opening your eyes to the possibility that not only is the other side correct, but you are correct as well.

    • @[email protected]
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      814 days ago

      If that was the red-green distribution, no one would be arguing whether it was a greenish-red or a reddish-green, because we all know about yellow. OP’s color is teal.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      415 days ago

      How did that one red appear? It used to be 0 red before i made the screenshot, cropped it and uploaded to lemmy

      • @[email protected]
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        515 days ago

        There would have been a bunch of image compression and transcoding along the way. Are the other values as expected?

        • @[email protected]OP
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          I only remember that the red was 0 and that the other values were close

          When using the color picker i used to get this image on the uploaded image(that i redownloaded), it said rgb(0, 122, 133). I copied that color and used another website to make the screenshot so either the 2 websites i used are wrong, the method you used is wrong, or something strange is happening

          • @[email protected]
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            615 days ago

            It’s a jpeg, it has lossy compression. There could be compression at any point in that chain, most likely right on creation of the screenshot, storage on your lemmy instance, download to my device, upload to my colour picker…

          • @[email protected]
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            315 days ago

            There are a lot of steps in converting color spaces to suit people’s individual monitors and in compressing files to be stored on web servers.

            Sometimes rounding errors happen. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

  • Dr. Bob
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    https://ismy.blue/

    You and your friend can both do the test above and see exactly where your breakpoints are.

    eta: I’ll show you mine…

    • @[email protected]OP
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      815 days ago

      The problem was that for some colors i would say its blue and they would say its green, but for other colors i would say its green and they would say its blue

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        ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ That’s just part of the fun. The colours are based RGB values so they are what they are.

    • TheEmpireStrikesDak
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      This annoys me. It keeps showing me cyan, but only giving me the options of green or blue. Cyan is neither. It’s freaking cyan! It’s a subtractive primary colour!

      (Don’t get me started on art teachers insisting the primary colours for paint are red, yellow and blue. Naff off with that crap. Go look at printer ink, then naff right off again.)

    • Capt. Wolf
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      This is the scientifically correct answer. Any other observance should be chalked up to differing displays, color temp settings, or just differing color reception in a person’s eyes. Numerically, it’s more blue. Blue Lagoon specifically.

      • @[email protected]
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        It’s a good example of how to explain Intelligence vs Wisdom in RPG’s. An intelligent person knows how to find the correct answer. A wise person knows it’s best to sometimes avoid debating opinions with their spouse.

        • Capt. Wolf
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          1114 days ago

          I once had a guy on a livestream arguing with me that the color I was using in a graphic was orange and needed to be red. I calmly told him, I am using red. He got angry that I kept telling him it was red. I finally pulled up the color picker and showed him 255 0 0. As red as red can get. He continued to argue. I ignored him. Some people are just fools who can’t be wrong. Better to leave them be or they’ll drag you down to their level.

      • @[email protected]
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        313 days ago

        That also depends on the color accuracy of your device.

        We know what the intent of the color was now but not what is actually displayed.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      The argument was if a color could be both green and blue at the same time

      But this is 100% blue

      • moonlight
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        1015 days ago

        It’s CYAN. Teal and turquoise are shades of cyan. Cyan is a primary color. This post is like asking if yellow is red or green.

        • @[email protected]
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          It’s definitely yellow.

          But, for real, OP is having a struggle with it for this reason.

          If something is 50% G and 50% B, it is neither one or the other. It’s exactly where C sits. If it is 75% G and 25% B, you could say it’s green. But if I asked if it’s green or cyan, we’ll have the same issue again, sinc it’s. 50% G and 50% C.

          OP gotta learn their colour spectrum a bit more.

        • @[email protected]
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          114 days ago

          Cyan is a primary color when working subtractively, but for additive color the primaries are RGB. Since this is on a screen, green and blue would be the relevant primaries

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              Are we talking additive or subtractive color? If additive then yellow is the secondary of green and red, and magenta the secondary of blue and red

    • Iron Lynx
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      There. </thread>

      Learn some colour vocabulary, my esteemed internet posters.

  • @[email protected]
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    1914 days ago

    Tourqoise which means more into blue than teal would be

    But what im seeing may be influenced by display settings, we all are probably looking at slightly different colours.

  • @[email protected]
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    Green. I often have the same argument about my jacket

    Wait, I had “night light” on. It’s blue.

    Try this with our friend.

    • @[email protected]
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      I did two runs, the first ended at 177 (three more greens than 76%of respondents), the second at 174 (the exact median). I think the methodology is flawed, there’s a little randomness at the threshold so you need to gather more data to be certain of a person’s perception. You’ll see that the same hue can seem bluer when it follows a strong green, or greener when it follows a weak green.

      Edit: did a third run, this time staring at a white wall for 5 seconds between each color and responding as quickly as possible. Got 170, way over in the green. A lot of it looked like a pale blue sky.

  • HEXN3T
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    1615 days ago

    This is definitely more blue than green, but it’s a dark cyan or turquoise. Calling it blue or green implies otherwise.

  • @[email protected]
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    1515 days ago

    The RGB value for this color seems to be:

    (0,122,133)

    As such, it is slightly more blue than green, if that helps you win your argument. If not, you can just say it’s “bluegreen” and only be half wrong.