Re: BODY Colors

If you can dig up your notes that would be great.

I have got Smith-Ketterwell to say they will help Chris a little.  That's
sorta the "buck stops here" point for visual perception AFAIK.

Al

At 12:02 PM 3/30/99 -0500, Leonard R. Kasday wrote:
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>>The problem now is how do we quantify the colors. On your computer, the
>>colors are represented by 3 values (red, green and blue) and the values
>>range from 0 to 255. So what represents a poor visibility red? What values
>>make up a 'dark' background?
>
>The values are mapped to screen intensity in a non linear way, roughly. a
>power function.  v^gamma.  To make matters more complicated, gamma is
>different for Mac's, PC's, and some unix machines like SGI.
>
>In addition, the allowable contrast difference depends on the size of the
>text.
>
>I looked at this a while back and didn't find satisfactory quantitative
>data, even for people with "normal" vision.  
>
>We have the makings here of a good research project.  At least an update on
>the literature search I did.  Possibly some experiments.
>
>If someone wants to do a bit of research I'll be glad to dig up my old notes.
>
>Perhaps there are folks in the psychology dept up there who would like to
>look into this... viz. the folks in visual perception.
>
>Len 
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Received on Tuesday, 30 March 1999 12:57:11 UTC