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		Jensson on Sept 25, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Geometry of Color Perception Yeah, red being closer to purple than red to green is about as strange as red being closer to orange than to green. The absolute difference between (1, 0, 1) and (1, 0, 0) is smaller than between (0, 1, 0) and (1, 0, 0).

robbrown451 on Sept 25, 2021 [–]

Right...if you think of color as RGB as you do (which is simplified, but mostly correct), it makes this concept a lot clearer.

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