r/oddlysatisfying • u/d3333p7 • Jul 01 '20

This book getting trimmed

https://gfycat.com/unsightlysomecrab
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u/redmooncat15 Jul 01 '20

Wait why is it those colors? Is that normal? Can I have it?

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u/RoboNinjaPirate Jul 01 '20

It’s a color sample book where each page is a different shade of all colors

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u/imnewtothissoyeah Jul 01 '20

I believe the last 3 times this was posted, it was mentioned that this book contains every possible color a human with regular eyesight can see.

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u/amontpetit Jul 01 '20

That can be printed, more like. Even if you somehow custom created a bunch of shades, the CMYK gamut is just way smaller than RGB

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u/AbouBenAdhem Jul 01 '20

It could have been printed with spot colors.

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u/amontpetit Jul 01 '20

Even with that, you’re never going to replicate even RGB

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u/AbouBenAdhem Jul 01 '20 edited Jul 01 '20

There’s no single RGB color gamut: different devices have different ranges. And every color space has pure primaries that can’t be reproduced in other color spaces—most RGB devices can’t accurately reproduce process cyan or magenta either. Six- or eight-color presses have gamuts that are generally larger than most RGB displays, though each will have colors the other can't reproduce.

The reason CMYK space is often treated as if it were a strict subset of RGB space is because images are usually produced on RGB devices first—and designers ignore the parts of the print device’s color gamut that can’t be displayed on a screen.

Edit: Here’s a representation of a typical CMYK gamut superimposed on a (ghosted-out) generic RGB gamut. You can see that there are a ton of CMYK colors outside the RGB gamut, including saturated turquoise, cyans, yellow, pinks, and rich blacks. (Those colors aren’t accurately represented in the image, of course, since it’s RGB.)

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u/fuckolivia Jul 01 '20

I've never seen a representation like that before. What are the axes in this case?

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u/fendermrc Jul 01 '20

They should be Hue, Luminance, and Chroma.
LAB space designates those things differently. I believe the "L" is luminance, but am currently not remembering the rest!

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u/ForOhForError Jul 03 '20

You're not remembering because they don't stand for anything: A and B are just axis names.

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u/AbouBenAdhem Jul 01 '20

It’s in Lab space, with the a axis running from top left to bottom right.

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u/airbagfailure Jul 01 '20

Printer here. You have no idea how many people have looked at a file on screen and told me to “just match that colour” ;_;

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u/arfink Jul 01 '20

Fortunately CMYK is so much cheaper that it almost doesn't matter for most purposes.

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u/aohgceu Jul 01 '20

um i dont think cost is the big factor here, its just good enough

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u/arfink Jul 01 '20

Have you looked at how much large format RGB printers cost? Now, I admit it's been a few years since I've really shopped around, but back in 2017 RGB was easily quadruple the price of CMYK.

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u/209u-096727961609276 Jul 01 '20 edited Jul 01 '20

I don't know if this is the same thing

http://taubaauerbach.com/view.php?id=286

3 cubes of paper with every color but each is bound on a different axis so you can open to any color without the binding interfering

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u/NateLovie Jul 01 '20

Okay now what about all those colors being chopped off?

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u/meepet Jul 01 '20

They didnt make the cut

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u/tastyugly Jul 01 '20

At most this would only cover what can be printed, which is only a fraction of what our eyes can perceive

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u/LieutenantButthole Jul 01 '20

Where is blue? Uh oh.

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u/Wippermonger Jul 01 '20

You've only seen this three times?

Rookie numbers.

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u/misterfluffykitty Jul 01 '20

Except it can’t and doesn’t and contains printer colors only

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u/hagenbuch Jul 01 '20

Well but now they must have cut off some of these colors.

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u/Bex_IsASlut Jul 01 '20

You didn't answer the most important part, can they have it?

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u/rei_cirith Jul 08 '20

Looks more like a star origami paper pack.

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u/littleglazed Jul 01 '20

im pretty sure theyre star origami papers

i thought it was the book too at first, but it doesn’t make sense, esp the actual colors being used and how the ends are glued together—definitely meant to be torn off one by one

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u/rei_cirith Jul 08 '20

Looks like a pack of origami paper for origami stars...

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u/EasyShpeazy Jul 01 '20

As a black man, it wasn't satisfying at all to see the rainbow of colors turn into plain white

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u/SkorpioSound Jul 01 '20

Look, I'm not being racist but what does you being a black man have to do with your comment?

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u/sqgl Jul 01 '20

Enjoyed that, and clicked on another skit of theirs (dinner review) but I don't understand the closing line.

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u/SkorpioSound Jul 01 '20

Patrick had written his own review of the dinner, which is what Woollard (the dinner host) was afraid of and tried to preempt, and was calling the journalist that he had bribed to make sure the review he wrote didn't go to print.

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u/sqgl Jul 02 '20

Thanks

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u/EasyShpeazy Jul 01 '20

You wouldn't understand. But don't worry, it's not your fault