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An RGB value points to a single color, but if R is "really into trains" and B is "repetitive behavior" and G is "susceptibility to sensory overload", then it's

by delecti 11mo ago

An RGB value points to a single color, but if R is "really into trains" and B is "repetitive behavior" and G is "susceptibility to sensory overload", then it's basically the same metaphor as a multi channel audio mixer, except understandable to a different (and likely bigger) pool of people.

dfxm12 11mo ago
That line of reasoning doesn't follow as RGB implies there are exactly three measures, which isn't the case.
- jfindper 11mo ago
  >RGB implies there are exactly three measures It's a metaphor. It helps people build an intuition. It doesn't need to be exact to do that.
  - dfxm12 11mo ago
    It doesn't have to be exact, but it's counter productive when it is clearly and meaningfully incorrect though. That's the problem with the two dimensional [0,1] scale as well.
    - jfindper 11mo ago
      >so obviously incorrect though I couldn't possibly disagree more.
- delecti 11mo ago
  That's just the limits of it being a metaphor. Audio mixers also only have a finite number of channels, but are also much less familiar to most people.
- deleted 11mo ago
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- Aardwolf 11mo ago
  "spectrum" encompasses any hue, not just those 3, any wavelength of light can have a different amplitude