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Hmm, are you really sure that, had you been asked without reading the article, you'd think the average colour to be reddish/yellowish gray due to lighting and .

Hmm, are you really sure that, had you been asked without reading the article, you'd think the average colour to be reddish/yellowish gray due to lighting and ... etc? Really really? If I'd been asked, I'd perhaps have tried to be clever and said that the top half of the image would be blue as the sky is blue and indoor walls are usually white which won't hurt the blue so much, and that the bottom half would be a browny green due to grass and carpet etc.

GhotiFish 12y ago
This is not to toot my own horn here (I would of expected graduations as well due to the sky and the ground), but I think I would of said It would of tended to orange, on the grounds that (and this is just my suspicion) people find a more orange hue a more pleasing whitebalance. What is online is what has been shared, and what is been shared will invariably be pleasing to the people that shared it. Obviously, this is just another explanation. Actually I would of liked to of seen some of those aggregate photos. Maybe there WERE graduations! edit: wish granted!: http://jbum.com/papers/EmergentOrange_paper.pdf http://jbum.com/papers/EmergentOrange_paper.pdf some of his sample sets did produce graduations, in particular vignettes and lighter at the top darker at the bottom themes. in defence of my statement is figure 10 Figure 10. Averages of four different pools of digital abstract art found on Flickr. Pools used: Processing, CGArt, Computer Art Creations, Generative and Evolutioanry Art for some reason he produces a surprisingly orange result, and still believes that the overall orange hue may be due to: 4) It’s caused by chemistry & physics. The amalgam photos are functioning as a kind of mass spectrometer, reflecting the average chemical composition of the subjects being photographed. [...] I find #4 the most convincing. It is not necessarily mutually exclusive with some of the others (e.g. the chemistry of the earth/sun affects human choices and camera design). Meh.
- krazydad 12y ago
  I don't disagree with you, I think. I think the human-generated art result is interesting, but may simply indicate that humans are mirroring (or even accentuating) what they see in the natural world. In other words, the physical composites may be orange because of chemistry and physics, and the synthetic averages may be orange because our perceptions are shaped in a world of chemistry and physics.

GhotiFish 12y ago

This is not to toot my own horn here (I would of expected graduations as well due to the sky and the ground), but I think I would of said It would of tended to orange, on the grounds that (and this is just my suspicion) people find a more orange hue a more pleasing whitebalance. What is online is what has been shared, and what is been shared will invariably be pleasing to the people that shared it. Obviously, this is just another explanation. Actually I would of liked to of seen some of those aggregate photos. Maybe there WERE graduations! edit: wish granted!: http://jbum.com/papers/EmergentOrange_paper.pdf http://jbum.com/papers/EmergentOrange_paper.pdf some of his sample sets did produce graduations, in particular vignettes and lighter at the top darker at the bottom themes. in defence of my statement is figure 10 Figure 10. Averages of four different pools of digital abstract art found on Flickr. Pools used: Processing, CGArt, Computer Art Creations, Generative and Evolutioanry Art for some reason he produces a surprisingly orange result, and still believes that the overall orange hue may be due to: 4) It’s caused by chemistry & physics. The amalgam photos are functioning as a kind of mass spectrometer, reflecting the average chemical composition of the subjects being photographed. [...] I find #4 the most convincing. It is not necessarily mutually exclusive with some of the others (e.g. the chemistry of the earth/sun affects human choices and camera design). Meh.

krazydad 12y ago
I don't disagree with you, I think. I think the human-generated art result is interesting, but may simply indicate that humans are mirroring (or even accentuating) what they see in the natural world. In other words, the physical composites may be orange because of chemistry and physics, and the synthetic averages may be orange because our perceptions are shaped in a world of chemistry and physics.