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Comment by hoistbypetard

7 days ago

I really enjoyed reading this even though I have no direct interest in the lightfastness of the pigments in colored pencils.

It was just fun to see what someone who is deeply invested thought important to test, explain and research about something I'd have previously called a matter of aesthetic preference (as opposed to a thing you can benchmark).

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sunrunner  7 days ago

> test, explain and research about something

There's more high quality engineering discipline in this 'non-engineering' article than in seemingly a lot of self-professed software engineering today ;)

  • ChrisMarshallNY  7 days ago

    Heh. As a [former][0] artist (and musician), and an engineer, I can confirm that the Venn diagrams overlap, quite a bit.

    Pigment color is a real heavy-duty field. There's a guy named Michael Wilcox[1] that is famous for his work on pigment color.

    [0] https://michaelwilcoxschoolofcolour.com/about-michael-wilcox... (Has an annoying popup on every page).

    • sunrunner  7 days ago

      Thank you for these links!

      > Pigment color is a real heavy-duty field

      I'm not surprised. As $DAYJOB involves a reasonable amount of requirements for colour accurate previewing in a print context I still feel like I'm never as sure about all steps of the colour pipeline as I should be, and this adds a whole new area to know I'll never feel like I know enough about.