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April 01, 2005

this can't be true - but it is...

I am not trying to turn this into a love fest between me and Nick C, but I thought this was very cool.  The two squares labeled A and B are exactly the same shade of grey.

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Nick’s site has the links to the proof and explanation. I wanted to see for myself. I have an application on my windows machine called eyedropper that allows me to examine graphics at the pixel level. I fired it up and sure enough both the A and the B squares have the same exact RGB value.

 

The B Square values – Bsquare

 

The A Square values – Asquare

 

By the way, the artist toolkit that comes with your mac has the same eyedropper tool functionality built into it.

Posted by pmadsen at April 1, 2005 07:49 AM

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You are totally lying

Posted by: Lou at April 7, 2005 01:24 PM

about the grey square's..I will quote a famous Nascar driver(#20) when approached with a similar problem "who cares".

Posted by: ARossillo at August 4, 2005 07:10 PM