yofxThe Unofficial Blog of the Tunxis Math Department

I was out shopping with the fam this weekend. Not only did I find a new belt, but look pi grill work on this set of table and chairs.

I found this in Kids Discover while hanging out with my daughter in the childrens section of our library. Pretty cool example of a visual binary operation.

ps. Thanks Brian and Lee for getting me off my butt and posting.

I found this on the Math World Photo Pool. What really took me in was chrstphre’s caption:

24 Colors you should know.
i think that this scheme seems to work the best.
What prompted me to create these was a continuing confusion i see,
over & over regarding simple color identifications…
Particularly regarding The Distinction between Purple & Violet.
To my way of Thinking;
Purple is Bluish, And Violet is Reddish.
Magenta has been given the Middle Position,
although this may not be extremely accurate.
One thing that i did find while working on this;
Was that there seems to be a real shortage of Unique Words for Specific Colors. Particularly around the Color Orange. It would seem that The Damp Masses are in Denial that Orange Even Exists.

I was interested because I find color words confusing too. I’m okay with the primaries (blue, red, and yellow). Even green and orange of the secondaries. Magenta surprised me. I was thinking purple was for sure was a secondary. Turquoise is about the only one I could confidently place of the tertiaries. A color like violet I would know is somewhere in the neigborhood of purple. I would not, however, be able to place it between purple and red or between purple or blue. Does anybody with a stronger color vocabulary agree with his arangement of colors words on the color wheel?

More xkcd. Is this guy a geek comedy genius or what? Not getting it, here’s help.