Kestrell

This is a picture of the coral reefs in the Red Sea off the coast of Saudi Arabia, taken from space.

https://scitechdaily.com/red-sea-rainforests-coral-reef-ecosystems-thrive-off-the-coast-of-saudi-arabia/

I don't want a precise description of the detailed forms, just the colors: I'm thinking of trying to capture them in a tie-dye later during the summer.

Last one, I promise, but here is another color design website, but this one has recommendations for specific professions such as technology, education, media, entertainment, fashion, etc., though the orange and blue color combo makes me think of Howard johnson restaurants.

35 Logo Color Combinations to Inspire Your Design
https://looka.com/blog/logo-color-combinations/

Reposting this from an email I sent to the web design list, as I found the color generator provided by the instructor didn't provide enough description for my former art student self.

I wanted to find the RGB values for a specific color, and found that I could just open a search engine and search for:
How do you make dark green in rgb?
And I found easy results.

It also led me to this website which I am now hooked on:
This website has all the information you need to create colors: the edit field allows you to enter any color value, i.e., hex number, RGB, or just the plain color word, such as "dark green," and then gives you all the ways to create it.
It also lists colors by name, defines all sorts of color terminology, and tells you if the color is web safe.
ColorHexa.com
https://www.colorhexa.com/

Lastly, if you have a favorite artist or painting, you can open a search engine and enter something like this:
Vermeer +color palette
And find out which specific colors that artist used.

« Optical illusions show how we see: Beau Lotto on TED.com |
from an interview back in 2009
http://blog.ted.com/2009/10/08/beau_q_and_a/

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How does Bing Bong fit in with your wider research?**

Bing Bong is part of a larger program of research, which is sensory
substitution or sensory augmentation.
When I say to people that the light that falls onto our eyes is
meaningless, people find that really hard to believe. You open your
eyes, you look around, you see nothing /but/ meaning; you ask yourself,
How could it be meaningless? But that's of course because you're not
seeing the light that falls onto your eye, but your brain's perception
of that light. You're seeing that light in the context of the millions
of years of evolution that our brains have gone through.

But if I translate that light into sound, and you instead /hear/ the
visual information, you directly experience the meaninglessness of it.

Then, through interacting with the world through sensory substitution,
you experience yourself literally making sense of it. You begin to hear
patterns. Those patterns start having a meaning for you. You're actually
an observer of yourself as you do this.

Through sensory substitution, we can create prosthetics for the visually
impaired --- to make the world navigable. But we can also do things like
make music from color, which is an element that I touched on during my
TEDTalk
<http://www.ted.com/talks/beau_lotto_optical_illusions_show_how_we_see.html>.

*The brain almost doesn't seem to care what type of information it
receives --- it just starts decoding any information it is given. Do I
have that right?*

The most fundamental thing the brain does is it evolves to evolve. It
adapts to adapt. The brain is wonderfully plastic. Now, it's a plastic
of different levels of flexibility --- the brain couldn't function
without some stability as well.
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Links
Bing Bong Iphone application
http://www.lottolab.org/products.asp

Tedtalks
http://www.ted.com/talks/beau_lotto_optical_illusions_show_how_we_see.html

Music from Color
http://www.lottolab.org/articles/musicfromcolour.asp

Lottolab
http://www.lottolab.org/index.asp

This excerpt
from the blog post at
http://behindthecurtain.us/2010/06/12/my-first-week-with-the-iphone/
was posted to the Art Beyond Sight mailing list. I am growing increasingly more frustrated witht he fact that the iPhone gets such poor reception around our house as the blindness-related apps being developed sound so amazing, like the tech of my imagination. I especially like the ability to know what colors things are, as color still features prominently in mhy imagination.

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The other night, however, a very amazing thing happened. I downloaded
an app called Color Identifier.http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/color-identifier/id363346987?mt=8
It uses the iPhone's camera, and speaks names of colors. It must use a table, because each color has an identifier made up of 6 hexadecimal digits. This puts the total at 16777216 colors, and I believe it. Some of them have very surreal names, such as Atomic Orange, Cosmic, Hippie Green, Opium, and Black-White. These names in combination with what feels like a rise in serotonin levels makes for a very psychedelic experience.
I have never experienced this before in my life. I can see some light and color, but just in blurs, and objects don't really have a color, just light sources. When I first tried it at three o'clock in the morning, I couldn't figure out why it just reported black. After realizing that the screen curtain also disables the camera, I turned it off, but it still have very dark colors. Then I remembered that you actually need light to see, and it probably couldn't see much at night. I thought about light sources, and my interview I did for Get Lamp.<http://getlamp.com> First, I saw one of my beautiful salt lamps in its various shades of orange, another with its pink and rose colors, and the third kind in glowing pink and red.. I felt stunned.
The next day, I went outside. I looked at the sky. I heard colors such as "Horizon," "Outer Space," and many shades of blue and gray. I used color cues to find my pumpkin plants, by looking for the green among the brown and stone. I spent ten minutes looking at my pumpkin plants, with their leaves of green and lemon-ginger. I then roamed my yard, and saw a blue flower. I then found the brown shed, and returned to the gray house. My mind felt blown. I watched the sun set, listening to the colors change as the sky darkened. The next night, I had a conversation with Mom about how the sky looked bluer tonight. Since I can see some light and color, I think hearing the color names can help nudge my perception, and enhance my visual experience.
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