[Icehouse] Xeno color mapping for Homeworlds

[Rob Bryan]

On 6/4/07, Andy Looney <andy at looneylabs.com> 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?)
>

I like it. Red=Orange and Yellow=Clear feel like the must-haves to me.
 As noted, I can go either way with Cyan.  I tend to put Purple with
Blue by thinking of it in rainbow order as  Violet.  While it doesn't
go with green color wise, I guess I like Jabobs logic on some level:
Purple does feel somehow... fecund.