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Why add pigment. Every stood next to a white wall in bright sunshine? There's also the aesthetic reasons, people don't just optimize for cost, they like things
by hnriot 13y ago
Why add pigment. Every stood next to a white wall in bright sunshine? There's also the aesthetic reasons, people don't just optimize for cost, they like things they live with to look a certain way.
The likely reason is a bunch of reasons, including human nature, herd mentality, or what we today call going viral. Possibly it was just a really good paint salesman that had a load of spare red going cheap.
The tone didn't bug me in the slightest, it took it for what it was, a bit of fluff writing that had a pretty photo to look at.
- EmployedRussian 13y agoHerd mentality is very likely. Many barns in USA are red. Most barns in USSR were not painted at all. Most French barns don't appear to be red either: http://www.google.com/search?q=image+barn+france http://www.google.com/search?q=image+barn+france
- Retric 13y agoYour looking at stone barns in France, wooden barns and wooden doors on stone barns are often red.
- alex_doom 13y agoI was under the impression that it was red because it was best color for keeping the heat absorption even.
- D_Alex 13y agoUnpigmented "paint" is not white, it is usually* clear-ish. Titanium dioxide is the usual white pigment. On the topic of why iron oxide pigments are used rather than keeping paint clear: they protect the surface from UV light. * There are multitudes of paint bases, all the ones I can recollect are transparent with a yellow/brown tinge. One exception is acrylic emulsion paint base, which looks white but dries clear, unless a pigment is added.