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Is Cyan a shade of Blue or Green?

Blue 48% (19 votes)
Green 0% (0 votes)
Bluish Green 20% (8 votes)
Greenish Blue 12% (5 votes)
AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! 7% (3 votes)
DAK KNEE! 10% (4 votes)

Total Votes: 39

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Post Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 10:13 pm — Post subject: Is Cyan a shade of Blue, or Green?

So which is it to you? Blue, Green, or AHHHHH!!!!

Just something fun to lighten stuff up around here. Very Happy

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Post Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 10:41 pm — Post subject:

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Post Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 10:42 pm — Post subject:

True cyan, which is the color complement of true red, sure as heck looks BLUE, at least according to this illusion. Smile


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Post Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 1:56 am — Post subject:

Don't ask me, i m colorblind Very Happy


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Post Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 4:34 am — Post subject:

Four colour printing process is made up of CMYK: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black.


Let's do basic algebra!

C + Y = Green
C + Y = Blue + Yellow
C = Blue


IZ BLUE!



(Sorry. I'm a bit of a design geek.)


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Post Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 6:15 am — Post subject:

i'd say it's an off color mauve... but then i'd be yanking chains...

Cyan must have been something they thought up off the tops of their heads

Rand: "What do we call ourselves (i.e. our garage Razz )

Robyn: "I dunno, how bout a color."

Rand: "Yeah, sure. You're the artiste what color do you like."

Robyn: "erm... Let's go with Cyan."

Rand: "CYAN? oh why not..."

EDIT: glad i'm not the only nave what voted for DUK NEE Razz

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Post Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 12:24 pm — Post subject:

Or to be more specific it is #00FFFF


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Post Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 1:39 pm — Post subject:

cyan

1889, short for cyan blue (1879), from Gk. kyanos "dark blue, dark blue enamel, lapis lazuli," probably a non-IE word, but perhaps akin to, or from, Hittite *kuwanna(n)- "copper blue."

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper

(Douglas Harper? Hmmmmm, they omitted the 'S')


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Post Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 5:34 pm — Post subject:

Cyan, blue with NO trace whatsoEver of yellow, magenta or black. In italian we call it azzurro or celeste (sky blue). Clicky clicky here.

And here is a nifty cyan illusion.


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Post Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 6:16 pm — Post subject:

Main_Avvie's hypothetical rumination makes me wish random would pop in and tell us how it really happened.

*crosses fingers*


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Post Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 6:22 pm — Post subject:

iirc, i seem to remember reading it was a spur of the moment decision they had to give to a publisher...

this was mentioned in either the prima myst guide or the prima cc guide in the retrospective in the back... i'll check...

wouldn't mind hearing it from the horses mouth though Cool

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Post Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 7:52 pm — Post subject:

Hello.
We express this color in this way in Japan.
「薄青緑」
We call it in English in this way.
“Light bluish green”
Wink


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Post Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 10:36 pm — Post subject:

Wow, this is turning much more educational then I thought it would be. So cool! Cool

(and Laughing at 4 dak knee votes.)

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Post Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 1:40 am — Post subject:

Chiro wrote:

Hello.
We express this color in this way in Japan.
「薄青緑」
We call it in English in this way.
“Light bluish green”
Wink



Thanks, Chiro. Well, Colors are Universal so that must be the case ^_^

おかげで、チロ。よく、色は普遍的なものであるため、その次に、^_^でなければなりません

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Post Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 1:10 pm — Post subject:

IIRC, Japanese didn't traditionally have a different word for blue and green. It was the same word. But they have different words now.


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