With digital control of color, we can have incredibly precise and almost imperceptibly varying color. What I want to do is build a rainbow. It's going to take some time though. Or at least some space (same thing...) anyway. I'll just start with red probably, or maybe purple if I'm feeling adventurous. I'm thinking about ten feet high, and with about 256 bit color, do about a bit per inch.
The first thought might be, 256 inches isn't that much.
But.
2^256 = 1.15792089 × 1077
256 is a lot of bits, which means a VERY gradual color variation, which means a lot of inches. (Clearly, 256 is WAY too much. 10 to the 77 is just a stupidly big number. At least if I'm working in inches. Or trying to get past red in my lifetime).Just a slow amble through some color. Or a few. The transition from one to another. The blending. The difference. The impossibility of drawing a line, but the necessity of creating that effect digitally.
I've been sort of fantasizing about this for months, in little burst here and there. Just this immense wall of glacially shifting red to orange in one direction, and red to purple in the other. Or really, since we can (with the magic of digital color), orange to green, perfectly blended over a thousand miles. Black to white might be nice.
I think it will be amazing no matter how I do it.
Now to find some funding.
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It's funny because for the last week or so while I walk around, I've noticed this: in my neighborhood, there are flowers of every color.
And I don't mean there are some red things, a couple blue things, some yellow. I mean every spectrum of the wheel is visible. They are almost visible in just the roses alone. There are so many different shades of, say, red: pinky-red, deep blood red, orangey red, red-red, and the different lights and darks within that. Here, I see that for every color in the various gardens people have in their yards.
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