From Rande Bly

It is my stand that color should carry as much weight in identifying a piece as shape does. If we are comparing directly to known test examples side by side the results could be phenomenal. Our eyes see the color and then our brains compute what we see. Sure there is variations in color due to ribbing, lighting,angle,background, and many other variables. I am sure we can agree that our brains are a million times more complex and powerful than our computers and are capable of complex computations that adjust for varying conditions. The question then would be what are our eyes capable of seeing with regard to color. We seem to have concern distinguishing between some of these 43 colors used in Carders TCCs(transparent colored crystal).

Are ya all ready for this? The human eye is popularly believed to be capable of discriminating among as many as ten million colors.

I just hope I didn’t accidentally slip and hit the copy and paste button and enter all ten million into my Color Memory. Technically, that is where they are at. All ten million. Then it becomes a matter of retrieval. I have often said my memory was like a Carousel at the fair. It’s all up there I just don’t know what horse it is going to stop at.

Back up plan? I like the “can’t set it down no matter how hard I try to” technique. Side by side comparison is not too bad either. Meantime I will keep exercising my color memory.