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It may depend in part on the nature and color of the pigments being used - they may have 64k colors in theory but not all distinguishable. There are also ongoi
by fencepost 6y ago
It may depend in part on the nature and color of the pigments being used - they may have 64k colors in theory but not all distinguishable.
There are also ongoing discoveries in pigments, for example YInMn Blue which still has very limited availability.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/YInMn_Blue https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/YInMn_Blue
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/yinmn-blue-comes-market-1921665 https://news.artnet.com/art-world/yinmn-blue-comes-market-19...
- chrismorgan 6y agoI very much doubt they’d shrink 65,536 to 40,000, even if some of the values were indistinguishable from others. That’s not how marketing works! If you have a 3×9 gear combination on a bicycle, you call it 27 gears, never mind that a lot of it is overlap and that it’s even possible for some ratios to be identical (e.g. 26:9 and 52:18 is conceivable).