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TIL in Stockholm (Sweden) they made a giant phone tower in the late 1800s to connect 5500 phone lines over the rooftops.

it makes me wonder if the hl2 combine citadel was inspired by it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Stockholm_telephone_tower

#TIL #telecom #HL2 #sweden

[F]orget for a while those rules of thumb of complementaries, whether complete or "split," and of triads and tetrads as well. They are worn out.
Second, no mechanical color system is flexible enough to precalculate the manifold changing factors, as named before, in a single prescribed recipe.
Good painting, good coloring, is comparable to good cooking. Even a good cooking recipe demands tasting and repeated tasting
while it is being followed. And the best tasting still depends on a cook with taste.
By giving up preference for harmony, we accept dissonance to be as desirable as consonance.
—Josef Albers in "Interaction of Color", 1963, ISBN 978-0-300-17935-4, page 42, chapter XVI "Color juxtaposition—harmony—quantity"

I stare at this while wondering why automatic harmonial color palette generators whose outputs are usually rerolled a few times, then taken without further checkup have become so popular in the past few years. I realize it is due to laziness, not necessarily actual real-life performance. Strictly following harmonies and the 60-30-10 path (60% of a page has the primary color, 30% the secondary, 10% the accent) is the look of the current UI (including website) era