On 1/19/2016 5:37 AM, Mike Horvath wrote:
> On 1/16/2016 2:44 PM, clipka wrote:
>> Am 16.01.2016 um 06:53 schrieb Mike Horvath:
>>> http://chromatek.com/what-is-chromadepth/design-guide-2/
>>>
>>> I've been reading their documentation, but I can't figure out if the
>>> progression from near to far is linear or not. I.e. is blue just as far
>>> from green as green is from blue? Or is it exponential? I plan on doing
>>> some experiments in the near future, but I can't figure out for sure
>>> whether this is the case.
>>
>> Strictly speaking you can expect depth cues to progress in steps:
>> There's one fixed distance corresponding to Red, one corresponding to
>> Green, and one corresponding to Blue. All of which will depend on your
>> display's primary colours.
>>
>> Any colour in between just corresponds to a superposition of two
>> different depths.
>>
>> This is especially true if you have a wide-gamut display, i.e. each
>> primary covers only a narrow band of wavelengths.
>>
>
> Are you sure? Yellow definitely looks closer than blue, and blends
> smoothly into the neighboring colors.
>
> I *have* noticed a superposition when looking at magenta. It looks both
> closer and farther than other colors next to it. It's a hard sensation
> to describe.
>
> Mike

Forgot to say that this lead me to believe that spectral colors are the 
only ones that work properly. Magenta is not a spectral color.


Mike

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