[Icehouse] Xeno color mapping for Homeworlds

[Tom Eigelsbach]

On 6/4/07, Rob Bryan <2short2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
> _______________________________________________


Yes, I'd agree with TwoShort that Red=Orange and Yellow=Clear feel forced.
I could get used to Cyan going to Green and Purple to Blue because both
would be moving toward one of the two closest colors to them; the other
matching -- Green to Purple and Blue to Cyan makes blue the easiest to
match, and draws me to this mapping,  but makes a big color jump from Green
to Purple, which is problematic, but do-able.  So I'd say strongly it really
should be one of these two mappings, and of the two I favor the Blue to Cyan
one slightly, though I see that the Blue to Purple and Green to Cyan would
have the improvement of both colors smoothly shifting to the next-door
neighbor color, so that's ok with me as well.  No other mappings would do it
for me.

--Zoltar
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