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It’s ancient history now but in 2012, the team behind the Paper drawing app for iPad shared interesting details about their color mixing: https://www.fastcompan
by rgovostes 2y ago
It’s ancient history now but in 2012, the team behind the Paper drawing app for iPad shared interesting details about their color mixing: https://www.fastcompany.com/3002676/magical-tech-behind-paper-ipads-color-mixing-perfection https://www.fastcompany.com/3002676/magical-tech-behind-pape...
In short, they first implemented realistic pigment mixing behavior. But in user testing it turned out non-painters are not good at getting the color they want by mixing; you usually end up with brown. So they had to make an unrealistic mixing algorithm that felt more intuitive.
- ricardobeat 2y agoThat article is gold. While this work is impressive, two things to consider: - Mixing oil paints is a learned skill. They don't behave intuitively, so this will only going to be useful for people who already paint in physical media (or want to learn that specifically) - ArtRage has arguably been the most realistic painting software for over a decade, It has a real color mixing mode that has to be enabled (probably not the default for the aforementioned reasons), and gives much closer results [1] than what they have in the samples page. Yet they barely show it in the comparisons. [1] https://i.ibb.co/T0GwbDV/artrage-mixing.jpg https://i.ibb.co/T0GwbDV/artrage-mixing.jpg (right: real color blending on)
- dcrazy 2y agoThank you, I knew I’d used real color mixing in multiple apps for years. Secret Weapons is making a categorically false claim to have developed the first ever true-to-life color mixing algorithm.