[Icehouse] Xeno color mapping for Homeworlds

[Alan Anderson]

On Jun 4, 2007, at 6:10 PM, Andy Looney wrote:

> But perhaps James has the answer:
>
>> Blue=Cyan Obvious correlation
>> Red=Orange Hottest colours
>> Yellow=Clear Lightest colours
>> Green=Purple Both are one step from blue
>
> That's not bad, actually... the Green-Purple becomes the hard one  
> to remember, but Jacob seemed to think they work logically, and  
> they're both in the cool end of the spectrum... I think I could  
> live with this choice, what do others think? (In particular,  
> TwoShort and Zoltar?)

Purple is a cool color?  Not to my eyes.  The more I think about it,  
the less it seems to fit well anywhere in the warm/cool spectrum.   
It's sort of the wraparound point on the color circle where blue/cool  
meets red/warm.

And I still don't think the cyan/blue correspondence is any more  
obvious than cyan/green.  The original "Andy-preferred" mapping makes  
*everything* work out closely, wherease the "James" one has a big  
green/purple stretch.

Maybe the big difference in opinion is coming from the direction  
people are using to connect the Homeworlds colors.  If you start with  
Rainbow and try to find corresponding Xeno colors, you tend to wind  
up with several good choices and one oddball.  But if you start with  
the Xeno colors and look for appropriate matches, you might more  
often get the one I and Rob (and, at the beginning, Andy) like, with  
all of the colors making some sort of intuitive sense.