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Comment on Rooting around Mike Yoder’s Brickshelf account by TheQ

TheQ — Mon, 25 May 2009 07:51:01 +0000

Actually these kind of “re-discoveries” are very interesting as they point out things that have been either forgotten or not even noticed first time around.

That ladder idea is really neat.

Comment on Lots of stuff is going on! by Niels Bugge

Niels Bugge — Wed, 06 May 2009 22:28:44 +0000

Thanks for the heads up Q: I tried to fix the text-field long time ago, but couldn’t find it in the css-file - and then forgot all about it :)

It turned out that text-fields are measured in “rows”, not pixes, and had to be fixed directly in the comment.php sub-file… strange.

Comment on Lots of stuff is going on! by TheQ

TheQ — Wed, 06 May 2009 18:54:16 +0000

Ah, nice to have you around updating the sites again, Niles. I am expecting new article from you in near future ;)

Oh, you might also check the settings for this comment textbox, it seems that it hides part of the writing area behind the right “horizontal bar”.

-Q

Comment on 83 Microscale Figther and a nifty function in Photoshop by Niels Bugge

Niels Bugge — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:20:28 +0000

Cool thanks Steen!
I’ll look into that when I get the time :D

Comment on 83 Microscale Figther and a nifty function in Photoshop by Steen

Steen — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:34:58 +0000

Hi Niels,

Batch-adjusting is as easy as pressing Record in Photoshop!
You simply open the Action-palette, it can be found in the Windows-menu.
Once the palette is open, open the Option-menu in the Palette. Now choose
‘New action’ and name your action - and you’re recording. Go through the steps you
wish (loading Level-presets etc) and hit the Stop-button at the buttom of the
Actions-palette.
Now you’ve got your action down, you need to make into a droplet (which let’s you
drop files on to it). Go to File -> Automate -> Create droplet, work through the
settings and you’re ready to start dropping files on the droplet, and have them
batch converted :-)

Comment on Colour wheel - build it yourself! by SirBugge

SirBugge — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:22:06 +0000

While you’re perfectly right that CMYK-colours are the best choice if you want to mix colours, which isn’t the case when it comes to lego (unless you grind some of you bricks to powder in order to tone other parts).
The available colour-palette in Lego is excactly the subject for the following blogpost (which would have fitted in really well before this one): Most of us have red, blue and yellow in over-abundance - while Cyan and Magenta are extremely rare.
I naturally hope to use the knowledge I gain from this investigation outside Lego (webdesign, choosing clothes, and interiour design), the main reason for taking up the subject on this lego page is the hope that we can all learn to utilize our collections better, and create more interesting spaceships.
That said I really find the coloured glass-discs on the wikipedia article you linked to interesting - it does look like cyan and magenta would complement Lego Green and Blue better… so perhaps the scarce colours can play a minor role yet.

Comment on Colour wheel - build it yourself! by Bram Lambrecht

Bram Lambrecht — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:19:50 +0000

If you take a more scientific rather than artistic approach to color theory,
you’ll note that red, yellow, and blue aren’t a very good choice of primary
colors. Color exists as light of a specific wavelength. Spectral colors are
just one wavelength, while most colors we see are a combination of wavelengths
in different intensities. Fortunately, there are many different combinations
that yield the same signal when processed by the sensors in our eyes. This lets
us trick our eyes into reproducing colors by just mixing three or so different
colors in different quantities. We call these primary colors.

Blue, red, and yellow, blue sort of work, but like you said, they get kind of muddy
brown when mixed. We can do a little bit better by using cyan, magenta, and
yellow like your printer. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtractive_color)
If we’re adding light together, then red, green, blue does pretty well. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive_color) The specific choice of wavelength
for red, green, and blue determines the color range (gamut) you can display,
which is why the same image displayed on different monitors look slightly
different.

None of these can replicate true spectral colors, they’re just approximations.
For more, you might want to explore the color theory articles on Wikipedia or
pick up a computer graphics textbook.

Comment on Colours - bad or misunderstood? by Linus Bohman

Linus Bohman — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:30:24 +0000

Very interesting exercise (and series of posts!). I’ve been reading a fair share of colour theory myself - you inspire me to get back into it. Nice to see the web page updated with some web 2.0 funcionality - the blog is now in my feed reader :-)