> Alain Martel <kua### [at] videotronca> wrote:
>> Le 2020-03-06 à 20:30, Cousin Ricky a écrit :
>>> An image by Oskar Bertrand from 2004 inspired me to render theses
>>> Olympic Spheres On a Checkered Plane.  I went through the trouble of
>>> looking up the official colors.
>>>
>>> ----------[BEGIN CODE EXCERPT]----------
>>> // The official Olympic colors are from fairspielen.de.  For sable,
>>> // an RGB equivalent of PMS 426C is used because the official #000000
>>> // (pure black) is generally unsuitable for 3-D ray traced objects.
>>> // The other colors are the official RGB values.
>>> #declare c_Olympic_colors = array[5]
>>> { srgb <0, 129, 200> / 255,  // azure
>>>     srgb <252, 177, 49> / 255, // or
>>>     srgb <37, 40, 42> / 255,   // sable via Pantone.com calculator
>>>     srgb <0, 166, 81> / 255,   // vert
>>>     srgb <238, 51, 78> / 255,  // gules
>>> }
>>> -----------[END CODE EXCERPT]-----------
>>
>> I see that they are using the heraldic names, and there are two that are
>> incorrect.
>>
>> «vert» should be «sinople» and means green, and «gules» should be
>> «gueule» and stand for red.
> 
> My cent:
> 
> Until the early fourteenth century, the term sinople was used in French
> literature as a poetic designation of the color red. This word derived from
> sinope, sinopis, Latin words that in classical antiquity usually referred to
> red, in allusion to a kind of much appreciated red ocher that was extracted in
> Cappadocia and exported from the port of Sinope, in Anatolia. Even after its
> adoption by heraldry with the meaning of "green," Sinople retained its literary
> meaning of "red" for about two more centuries.
> 
> B. Gimeno
> 


else than heraldric green.

Metals :
Silver = white
Gold = yellow

Noble colours :
Sable = black
Gueule = red
Azure = blue
Sinople = green

Lesser colours or semi-metals :
Tan = tan or beige
Carne = pink

Furs :
Vair, contre-vair and hermine

There are several more that I don't remember.

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