Sarah DalWerner's Nomenclature of Colours
A guidebook with swatches to help when describing the colours of things before colour photography - as used by Darwin on his expeditions
Mamalafafala@sarahdalgulls The descriptions are fabulous.
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As if photographs were enough to describe colors precisely. Vast majority of pictures with violet or purple objects are totally wrong even with color scale for calibration and standardized light. And only a small fraction of scientific images has a color scale to begin with.
As if photographs were enough to describe colors precisely. Vast majority of pictures with violet or purple objects are totally wrong even with color scale for calibration and standardized light. And only a small fraction of scientific images has a color scale to begin with.