All posts by NumberVectors

NumberVectors·11/3/2023 in Fanart

No, I won't be posting consistently, and, no, I'm not "back". This is just a hello (hello 🙂). I'm still interested in posting some Elementblocks like every few months or so.

BTW I've updated the Alkali Metals', Alkali Earth Metals' and the Halogens' designs so yeah. Enjoy,

NumberVectors·7/3/2023 in General

It's my birthday!! (it's currently the 4th were I am)

Just wanted to quickly pop in and tell y'all I'm now 15. Yay!

NumberVectors·6/22/2023 in General

My time has come I guess

I'm not that interested in Numberblocks, or Learningblocks as a whole, I guess I outgrew it... So yeah, I think I wanna leave, there's lots of other stuff I wanna focus on like Steven Universe, programming, Geometry Dash, idk. So, bye I'm leaving, but I'll probably pop in a few times maybe. This goes for my Scratch account as well.

Bye bye, it was fun, hope your day goes well! :)

Thirteen is still the best

NumberVectors·6/2/2023 in General

My colour-mixing theories

Hello and welcome to my findings from research about colours, colour theory and all that. I would just like to warn you that colour is a controversial and subjective topic, and despite me researching all this, it is what I believe to be true, but that might not be the case for you, so please don't post any hate. Also this is meant for Pride Month bc you know, colour lol.

Let's head right in!

Colour Systems

So yeah, to understand all this, there are two colour systems with their own primary colours, Additive and Subtractive. These two you could say are polar opposites, as the primaries for one are secondaries for another.

Additive

The additive colour system is based on light. Hex codes are a good example of showcasing this.

In the additive colour system, the more you mix colours, the closer you actually get to white (hence the name "additive", because you are adding light). Primaries are Red, Green and Blue

Subtractive

The subtractive colour system is based on pigments and paints.

The more you mix colours here, the darker the colour becomes. Primaries are Cyan, Magenta and Yellow (like in printers)

Subtractive Mixing

Now THIS is where lots of confusion can arise. I can either clear the confusion or make it more, so buckle up!

Before the next paragraph, I want to give you an understanding of light. Red paint reflects red light and we see it as red, but it absorbs the other colours, green and blue. Yellow paint reflects both red and green light (due to additive mixing) and therefore only absorbs blue. Paint absorb what colour they aren't and reflect what they are.

Now you might be thinking Red, Yellow and Blue are primary, but that's not true. Let's take the Yellow and Blue mixing for example. Now you might know that this will produce a Green, but will it? Yellow paint reflects both red and green light (bc red + green additive = yellow). It absorbs blue light. Blue paint reflects only blue light but absorbs red and green light. Now what happens when you mix these two? It relfects ALL THREE colour of light and the green is not real looks darker and muddier.

Now take Yellow and Cyan, yellow absorbs blue, and cyan absorbs red. When you mix these two, the product absorbs both blue and red light, hence reflecting green! Same for Magenta and Yellow, magenta absorbs green, yellow absorbs blue, mix those together to get something that absorbs both green and blue and then reflects... Red!

Traditional Colour Wheel

I honestly feel the actual mixing wasn't performed and it was just thrown together by how colours look in comparison to another. At least the got Orange right, it indeed comes from Red and Yellow. In many points of my life, mixing yellow and blue paint never made a good Green, and neither did Red and Purple give a nice purple, all those colours are saturated. However, in paintings, saturated colours can be very good because in real life almost every colour is saturated. However, the warm and cool thing doesn't make sense, I mean how can you call Green (the Colourblock) cool?! If I sat in a blue room, I'd definitely think it was cool but green?

Recognising Magenta and Cyan as their own colours

Magenta is not pink or red, Cyan is definitely not blue, and unfortunately, many people make this mistake. It's like acceptable if they say Cyan is like Azure but it IS important to recognise colour differences. Some colours like Blue have a very wide range and some like Yellow have a tiny range.