* WPG2 Plugin Not Validated *What a weekend. There’s nothing like getting away from the computers, and doing something totally domestic.
This weekend my girlfriend came over and helped me paint my kitchen. We scraped up the linoleum on the floor, and painted new colors. I’m really initerested in the whole color mixing process in paint.
When you go to Home Depot, and they mix a can of paint (By the way, they will mix custom colors in quart cans too - I though they’d only mix a gallon…) they grab a can of white, and they punch a bunch of stuff into a computer that then pours the correct quantity of color into the can, which is then shaken to mix it.
When you watch the machine pouring colors, it pours stuff that you’d never expect into that can.
Do I remember my color theory classes right, and paint color is not additive, while color of light is? I think that’s right. I wonder how much they have to take into account reactions between the different elements that make up what they are pouring in to influence the final color? Hmmm…
I found two good google links that explain the color mixing theory pretty well here and here.
Anyway, we painted over this weekend, we tore up the old floor, now its time to lay down the new one.
When I’m not geeking out, I’ve been cooking, so I wanted to make my kitchen a place I really wanted to be in.
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