Modulo Trouble
Simple problems in color science often involve tables of data and numerous calculations just to get back-of-the-envelope results…Excel is a fine tool for this kind of task. It handles tables well, easily shows intermediate results, and draws nice graphs on a whim. But there are some quirks, and it has a few issues with computation.
Quantifying Color
Color is an fascinating phenomena. It influences every sighted person despite having no physical existence. That makes it important. Our best science can neither measure nor manipulate its deeper subtleties, yet technology generates much of the color in our daily lives. That makes it interesting. Color is curiously consistent among people and oddly inconsistent across different environments. That makes it hard…
Creative Rhythm
The circle as symbol of the creative Rhythm from the conquest of illusion, J.J. Van Der Leeuw, 1928. My father was fond of this graphic and asked me to replicate it with a computer back in the 1980s. Dantz had recently acquired an original Apple LaserWriter which had...
A Blog Begins
Inventing is a deeply human activity that precedes recorded history and underlies most of our progress. Making something that fulfills the promise of imagination is so very gratifying, yet so very challenging. We conceive the possible and impossible alike, the...