"Bob" <omniverse*charter!net> wrote:
> Brings up a question of color that's more often than not been a frustration
> of mine. The orange looks brown... or more precisely, it looks like a tea
> drink.
> Many times I tried to get a traffic cone fluorescent orange color and
> failed. Even if the color can be attained alone, any scene change (lighting,
> etc.) is almost sure to lose the bright orange color. That seems to go for
> yellow sometimes, too.
> I think it's video card and LCD related, because the few times I've compared
> on another display it looks different. Doubt it would only be gamma at fault
> (besides my own fault).

I read that it has to do with the way our eyes interpret the combination of red
and green phosphors.  I can't remember where, though.  Normally I'd take care
of the problem by boosting the finish ( diffuse } value, but this won't work
with glass.

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