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File:1Mcolors.png, not featured[edit]
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- Category: [[Commons:Featured pictures/<add the category here>]]
Info created by Debitpixie - uploaded by Debitpixie - nominated by [[User:{{subst:Debitpixie}}|]] -- Debitpixie (talk) 11:54, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
Support -- Debitpixie (talk) 11:54, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
Comment Please fix the <add the category here> -- Basile Morin (talk) 13:43, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
Oppose Not really representative of the range of colours available in an 8-bit colour system. The rather simple program used to generate this doesn't appear to include the extremes of red, green, blue, black or white. There are 16-million colours possible in 8-bits, and though there are many ways to try to display them all, none are fully satisfactory. Colour is probably best thought of in 3D space. -- Colin (talk) 17:16, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
- Comment As for "none are fully satisfactory" -- satisfaction is subjective, but have you seen this? images with every colour. Many of the entries in the link have all 16,777,216 colours. As a bonus, all StackOverflow user contributions are licensed under cc by-sa 3.0 so feel free to copy your favourite one over to Commons. dllu (t,c) 02:26, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
- dllu, thanks for the link. There are indeed many beautiful ways to present the colours, whether 32,767 or 16,777,216. By "satisfactory" I meant a definitive or standard representation that had high educational value. A rainbow can display the pure spectrum of colour, and we can show 256 shades of red, green or blue pure colours, but there isn't any standard way I know of to describe the mix in a 2D form. -- Colin (talk) 11:04, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
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