[Rockhounds] Need help with Mineral ID

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

Most paint/drawing programs have one of these to select the color your 
tool will draw with.


On Wednesday, Jun 10, 2009, at 18:22 America/Detroit, Axel Emmermann 
wrote:

> Smart!
> I wonder, would it be hard to write a program that let's you creat a 
> color
> using RGB sliders and a saturation controller... ???
>
> Good link Bryan, thanks!
>
> Axel
>
>
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>> Namens J Bryan Kramer
>> Verzonden: woensdag 10 juni 2009 5:07
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>> Onderwerp: Re: [Rockhounds] Need help with Mineral ID
>>
>> My guess would be magenta, that may be a bit more purple tho. If you 
>> want
> to
>> accurately describe a color then you can try to match it to a chart 
>> like
>> this:
>>
>> <http://www.webmonkey.com/reference/Color_Charts>
>>
>> BK
>>
>>
>> “It often seems to me that the night is much more alive and richly 
>> colored
>> than the day."
>>
>>                       Vincent van Gogh
>>
>> J Bryan Krämer       North Florida, USA
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>> blog at: http://www.photoburner.net
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 22:41, Wes Lingerfelt <Rocks4u at prodigy.net> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Ok, Gang! I've been out in the shop making spheres and I see a lot of
>>> discussion has been going on about the raspberry color. Axel, it is 
>>> more
>>> purple than red but I couldn't think of a color to match it any 
>>> closer
> than
>>> Raspberry. I wonder if the color will photograph on my little Nikon 
>>> L5?
> In
>>> any case, I've seen Raspberries that are almost black especially when
> they
>>> are real ripe around here in Nipomo, California. The less than ripe 
>>> ones
> are
>>> deep Red. This mineral is more purple than red but darker than most
> calcite
>>> red's which is usually a reddish orange. I'm going to try to get a
> picture
>>> of the glow later tonight.
>>> Wow, this has been a whole lot of fun and I'm getting a new 
>>> appreciation
>>> for those in this group. You all are a wonderful resource and I'm
>>> overwhelmed. Thank you everyone so much!
>>> Stay tuned!
>>> Wes
>>>
>>>
>>
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