Friday, October 03, 2008
Color IQ Test
Core77: "If it's been too long since you've put your Color Theory skills to good use (or even lame use), have we got a perfect Thursday afternoon time waster for you."
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I did this, and maybe I am a little color blind, the blue/green really messes with my eyes, but i probably could have done better, my eyes got pretty tired by the end and i sorta stopped caring. Susan Tsu should give these to the freshmen for better color recognition, or have some CS major write a program that applies directly to basic design.
What perfect timing. Susan Tsu just taught the freshmen class about colors and hues and all that jazz yestarday. I tried this and it messed with my eyes too. It gets very hard to tell after a while. But all freshmen should definately try this to go along with our color wheels and paint chips!
This really was perfect timing, and Susan Tsu sent an email yesterday with the link to that website to the freshman design class. It's helpful in seeing just how subtle the differences are in the spectrum of color, and it also helps you realize exactly what you should be looking for in specific colors to see what comes next.
So I got a 15. But like everyone else, my eyes started playing tricks on me. I wonder how other's eyes would perceive the color (non ARTS majors).
I wonder how accurate this is given the variety of ways browsers/systems interpret colors, etc. given that the chips provided aren't websafe.
That being said, I'm perfect. Teehee.
I scored a 50...but I feel like this has way more to do with the color resolution on your monitor than a huge amount of skill on the part of the tester. Also, I agree with Teddy, towards the end I stopped caring.
My eyes started hurting a bit too, in addition to being a bit overwhelmed by all the colors initially. I didn't do too shabby, though. What perfect timing for our Basic Design class!
I tried this the first time and did not do as well as I expected to given that we are working with almost this exact thing in Susan’s class. I then looked at the settings that my monitor was set to and realized that the color balance was way off. I did it after re-setting the values and scored much better! I cannot believe that I have been looking at incorrect color for so long and that I did not realize a thing. I guess it has been this way from the beginning so I had nothing to compare it to.
This has been floating around art based internet communities for a while now as a meme. Both LJ users and DA users reported difficulty in the telling differences in blues hues. >.> I got a perfect score.
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