Tuesday, January 9, 2007

The Great Blue Challenge

Is the shirt blue or purple?

My best friend in life, Kyle, is color blind. He has been for as long as I can remember. We used to sit on the swings in first grade and I would make him tell me colors of things he saw. I have always been able to see color just fine. My sophomore year of college I did a presentation on Colorblindness. Many more males are color blind than females are. So let me get to the point. Let me make the story short. I got a shirt for Christmas from my girlfriend, Natalie. It same from Steve and Barrys, a really low priced clothing store. I have several articles of clothing from them. The clothes are nice. I don't understand why the clothes are so cheap but I digress.

I think the shirt is purple. Really really like, faint purple but more purple than blue. Natalie thinks that the shirt is blue. Beth, my boss at work, also says the shirt is blue. So... I am putting it to the digital challenge. I took photos of the shirt this morning. And have put them in Adobe Photoshop. I am going to sample the photos in many different spots in an effort to really tell. Problem is... my camera doesn't reproduce color perfectly. So below are my findings, wrong or not.





































My conclusion: Well I don't really know. It turned out a lot of purple in the natural sunlight. But then again lots of blue in the incandescent. Who's write?

It's been a fun debate and my experiment drew no certain conclusions. But oh well, debate is fun.

Add your comments now.. blue or purple.

2 comments:

mikesipodmini said...

It's certainly blurple.

Unknown said...

I think its Blue. :)