For what it's worth I favor Andy's mapping - > Cyan = Green > Orange = Red > Purple = Blue > Clear = Yellow While cyan may be closely related to blue, the actual Blue mids are very dark and the purple mids feel like a better substituton than the cyan mids. Cyan as green doesn't seem unnatural, orange-red is straight forward. The pairing I like least is clear/yellow but if forced to I could probably get used to it. -Caleb (aka clockwise over on sdg) --- Andy Looney <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey folks! I need to make a final decision on this in the next couple of > days, since I'm trying to get 3HOUSE sent to the printer on Wednesday. John > is leaving this decision up to me, but what do others think? > > ================================================================ > > Timothy Hunt wrote: > > The colour mapping you suggest just didn't sit right with me. I > understand why you chose what you did, in that it makes all the Xeno > colours fairly close to all the rainbow colours. But there was one > particular thing that bugged me, so I sent a note out to the local > warren. > > > I have a question for you all. > > > > Let us suppose there is a game where colour is significant (other than > > it belonging to a particular player), like ooh, Homeworlds. and let > > us suppose that like Homeworlds it was originally written for rainbow > > colours (Red/Green/Blue/Yellow). > > > > Now let us suppose that you only have Xeno colours > > (Cyan/Orange/Clear/Purple) (I'm ignoring black/white as they are both > > opaque). > > > > What translation would you use to help keep things clear in your mind > > as to which Xeno colours mean what? > > What was most telling in the responses I got (matching my own concern) > is that there is a very strong correlation between Cyan and Blue. > Yes, if you map it with Cyan > Blue, it means you are forced to have a > weak correlation elsewhere, rather than having 4 medium correlations > as you have in the chart. However, the Blue > Cyan correlation is so > strong that not having it is likely to create confusion, especially if > someone has played Rainbow Homeworlds and is now playing Xeno > homeworlds. Indeed, in my experience of playing lots of pyramid > games, if Cyan is used, absent the Blue, people will call Cyan "Blue". > With Blue in play, they usually call them Dark Blue and Light Blue. > > The most commonly suggested correlation absent any other information was: > > Cyan = Blue > Purple = Red > Orange = Yellow > Clear = Green > > However, Di Sudduth pointed out: > > My first reaction is to say "look at a Martian Coaster" as the > > correlations were set up when those were printed. Right or wrong or > > whatever, the standard was set... > > She makes a good point. > > In this case the mapping would be: > > Cyan = Blue > Orange = Green > Purple = Yellow > Clear = Red > > I'm not sure what mapping is the "right" one. But I feel pretty > strongly that the "right" one has "Cyan = Blue" in it. > > ================================================================ > > I see his points, but I still favor my mapping: > > Cyan = Green > Orange = Red > Purple = Blue > Clear = Yellow > > What do you think? > > -- Andy > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Icehouse mailing list > Icehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.looneylabs.com/mailman/listinfo/icehouse > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Choose the right car based on your needs. Check out Yahoo! Autos new Car Finder tool. http://autos.yahoo.com/carfinder/