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quantumaniac: Is Pink a Color?  MinutePhysics, a popular YouTube channel, posted a video a little while back saying that there is no pink light. This seems to have sparked a debate over whether or not pink is a color - an issue not really brought up by the original video. So, is pink a color? As usual, science is more complicated than you’d initially believe. Since this is a physics blog, let’s go with the usual physical understanding of what ‘color’ is. Every color, effectively, is just a certain frequency of light. Electromagnetic radiation is characterized by its wavelength, frequency, intensity, etc. When the wavelength is within the visible spectrum (the range of wavelengths humans can visually perceive, approximately from 390 nm to 700 nm), it is known as “visible light,” a range which we breakdown as Roy G. Biv.  There is no single frequency which our brains correspond to “pink” light. Then, how does pink exist? Effectively, pink is a combination of red and violet light - two colors from opposite sides of the visible spectrum. Since these two colors are literal opposites on the visible spectrum, pink could not exist as a fundamental frequency in nature (if you tried to average out the frequencies and “mix” them, you’d arrive at a color somewhere near the middle of the spectrum, around yellow or green). Thus, pink isn’t a fundamental frequency floating out there in space - a single frequency that we could call “pink” doesn’t exist.  Hold on Tumblr bro, Pink obviously exists, I see it on Nicki Minaj all the time!  Yes, yes - what we perceive as Pink does exist on its own, but does that necessarily make it a true color? Will Pink be excluded from the highly exclusive Color Club much like Pluto was ousted from the Planetary Patrol? Take a second to look around you, you’ll see tons of objects - probably many colored ones. When you look at, for example, a red object - that object absorbs all of the other frequencies except red, and it reflects red back to you. However, when you look at a pink object - you are not seeing pink wavelengths of light. An object would appear pink because wavelengths of both red and violet are being reflected - and our brains perceive it as a new “color,” namely pink. On a very fundamental level, pink is not a fundamental part of the universe - because no color is. The universe is chock full of electromagnetic radiation, and the only truly fundamental properties of it are wavelength, amplitude, frequency, etc. Color is a phenomenon completely produced by your brain - it’s how we perceive the light. Even different animals perceive light differently than us - like certain animals that can see beyond the visible spectrum, including infrared light. As biologist Timothy H. Goldsmith wrote for Scientific American, “color is not actually a property of light or of objects that reflect light, it is a sensation that arises within the brain.” So, by existing only as a human means of understanding the universe, pink is just as “real” as any other color.  So, there you have it - pink is not a part of the light spectrum, it is the effect of our brains filling the gap between blue and violet, but does that make it any less of a color than anything else?  Let’s look at two common definition for what a color is - one artistic and one scientific.  Scientific Definition: The sensation produced by the effect of light waves striking the retina of the eye. The color of something depends mainly on which wavelengths of light it emits, reflects, or transmits. Artistic Definition: Color is the element of art that is produced when light, striking an object, is reflected back to the eye. While there is no fundamental definition of color in all respects, personally, I’d say that pink fits both of these descriptions. Since no color is a fundamental property of the universe, pink does not exist as a part of the visible spectrum, but since all colors are just fabrications of our brain, I have to side with pink here. There are intelligent people on both sides of this debate, and one’s interpretation of definition seems to be how one decides whether to draw the line or not to exclude pink. Where do you stand? Further Reading
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quantumaniac: Is Pink a Color?  MinutePhysics, a popular YouTube channel, posted a video a little while back saying that there is no pink light. This seems to have sparked a debate over whether or not pink is a color - an issue not really brought up by the original video. So, is pink a color? As usual, science is more complicated than you’d initially believe. Since this is a physics blog, let’s go with the usual physical understanding of what ‘color’ is. Every color, effectively, is just a certain frequency of light. Electromagnetic radiation is characterized by its wavelength, frequency, intensity, etc. When the wavelength is within the visible spectrum (the range of wavelengths humans can visually perceive, approximately from 390 nm to 700 nm), it is known as “visible light,” a range which we breakdown as Roy G. Biv.  There is no single frequency which our brains correspond to “pink” light. Then, how does pink exist? Effectively, pink is a combination of red and violet light - two colors from opposite sides of the visible spectrum. Since these two colors are literal opposites on the visible spectrum, pink could not exist as a fundamental frequency in nature (if you tried to average out the frequencies and “mix” them, you’d arrive at a color somewhere near the middle of the spectrum, around yellow or green). Thus, pink isn’t a fundamental frequency floating out there in space - a single frequency that we could call “pink” doesn’t exist.  Hold on Tumblr bro, Pink obviously exists, I see it on Nicki Minaj all the time!  Yes, yes - what we perceive as Pink does exist on its own, but does that necessarily make it a true color? Will Pink be excluded from the highly exclusive Color Club much like Pluto was ousted from the Planetary Patrol? Take a second to look around you, you’ll see tons of objects - probably many colored ones. When you look at, for example, a red object - that object absorbs all of the other frequencies except red, and it reflects red back to you. However, when you look at a pink object - you are not seeing pink wavelengths of light. An object would appear pink because wavelengths of both red and violet are being reflected - and our brains perceive it as a new “color,” namely pink. On a very fundamental level, pink is not a fundamental part of the universe - because no color is. The universe is chock full of electromagnetic radiation, and the only truly fundamental properties of it are wavelength, amplitude, frequency, etc. Color is a phenomenon completely produced by your brain - it’s how we perceive the light. Even different animals perceive light differently than us - like certain animals that can see beyond the visible spectrum, including infrared light. As biologist Timothy H. Goldsmith wrote for Scientific American, “color is not actually a property of light or of objects that reflect light, it is a sensation that arises within the brain.” So, by existing only as a human means of understanding the universe, pink is just as “real” as any other color.  So, there you have it - pink is not a part of the light spectrum, it is the effect of our brains filling the gap between blue and violet, but does that make it any less of a color than anything else?  Let’s look at two common definition for what a color is - one artistic and one scientific.  Scientific Definition: The sensation produced by the effect of light waves striking the retina of the eye. The color of something depends mainly on which wavelengths of light it emits, reflects, or transmits. Artistic Definition: Color is the element of art that is produced when light, striking an object, is reflected back to the eye. While there is no fundamental definition of color in all respects, personally, I’d say that pink fits both of these descriptions. Since no color is a fundamental property of the universe, pink does not exist as a part of the visible spectrum, but since all colors are just fabrications of our brain, I have to side with pink here. There are intelligent people on both sides of this debate, and one’s interpretation of definition seems to be how one decides whether to draw the line or not to exclude pink. Where do you stand? Further Reading
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Is Pink a Color? 

MinutePhysics, a popular YouTube channel, posted a video a little while back saying that there is no pink light. This seems to have sparked a debate over whether or not pink is a color - an issue not really brought up by the original video. So, is pink a color? As usual, science is more complicated than you’d initially believe.

Since this is a physics blog, let’s go with the usual physical understanding of what ‘color’ is. Every color, effectively, is just a certain frequency of light. Electromagnetic radiation is characterized by its wavelength, frequency, intensity, etc. When the wavelength is within the visible spectrum (the range of wavelengths humans can visually perceive, approximately from 390 nm to 700 nm), it is known as “visible light,” a range which we breakdown as Roy G. Biv. 

There is no single frequency which our brains correspond to “pink” light. Then, how does pink exist? Effectively, pink is a combination of red and violet light - two colors from opposite sides of the visible spectrum. Since these two colors are literal opposites on the visible spectrum, pink could not exist as a fundamental frequency in nature (if you tried to average out the frequencies and “mix” them, you’d arrive at a color somewhere near the middle of the spectrum, around yellow or green). Thus, pink isn’t a fundamental frequency floating out there in space - a single frequency that we could call “pink” doesn’t exist. 

Hold on Tumblr bro, Pink obviously exists, I see it on Nicki Minaj all the time! 

Yes, yes - what we perceive as Pink does exist on its own, but does that necessarily make it a true color? Will Pink be excluded from the highly exclusive Color Club much like Pluto was ousted from the Planetary Patrol?

Take a second to look around you, you’ll see tons of objects - probably many colored ones. When you look at, for example, a red object - that object absorbs all of the other frequencies except red, and it reflects red back to you. However, when you look at a pink object - you are not seeing pink wavelengths of light. An object would appear pink because wavelengths of both red and violet are being reflected - and our brains perceive it as a new “color,” namely pink.

On a very fundamental level, pink is not a fundamental part of the universe - because no color is. The universe is chock full of electromagnetic radiation, and the only truly fundamental properties of it are wavelength, amplitude, frequency, etc. Color is a phenomenon completely produced by your brain - it’s how we perceive the light. Even different animals perceive light differently than us - like certain animals that can see beyond the visible spectrum, including infrared light. As biologist Timothy H. Goldsmith wrote for Scientific American, “color is not actually a property of light or of objects that reflect light, it is a sensation that arises within the brain.” So, by existing only as a human means of understanding the universe, pink is just as “real” as any other color. 

So, there you have it - pink is not a part of the light spectrum, it is the effect of our brains filling the gap between blue and violet, but does that make it any less of a color than anything else? 

Let’s look at two common definition for what a color is - one artistic and one scientific. 

Scientific Definition: The sensation produced by the effect of light waves striking the retina of the eye. The color of something depends mainly on which wavelengths of light it emits, reflects, or transmits.

Artistic Definition: Color is the element of art that is produced when light, striking an object, is reflected back to the eye.

While there is no fundamental definition of color in all respects, personally, I’d say that pink fits both of these descriptions. Since no color is a fundamental property of the universe, pink does not exist as a part of the visible spectrum, but since all colors are just fabrications of our brain, I have to side with pink here. There are intelligent people on both sides of this debate, and one’s interpretation of definition seems to be how one decides whether to draw the line or not to exclude pink. Where do you stand?

Further Reading

6 Color Scheme Tools COLORlovers The biggest resource community for colour palettes as well as patterns. Plus points that they spell “colour”correctly my British way. Kuler From Adobe it pretty much works the same way as COLORlovers where you also create your own schemes or edit others accordingly. Colorotate This site is a little more interactive and fun with the 3D elements. In addition there are few fun mixing/blending options. Color Scheme Designer The Wheel! A great resource for creating schemes as well options for “light-er” or “dark-er” versions. Pictaculous There are a few picture-to-colours applications but this is my favourite as, in my opinion, its most accurate. In addition to finding you colours from an image you’ve uploaded, it suggests other similar colour schemes from Colourlovers and Kuler. You can also download swatch files which I find useful. Color Palette Generator (DeGraeve.com) If you’re lazy or don’t have the image on your computer, this site lets you use URL’s instead.
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6 Color Scheme Tools COLORlovers The biggest resource community for colour palettes as well as patterns. Plus points that they spell “colour”correctly my British way. Kuler From Adobe it pretty much works the same way as COLORlovers where you also create your own schemes or edit others accordingly. Colorotate This site is a little more interactive and fun with the 3D elements. In addition there are few fun mixing/blending options. Color Scheme Designer The Wheel! A great resource for creating schemes as well options for “light-er” or “dark-er” versions. Pictaculous There are a few picture-to-colours applications but this is my favourite as, in my opinion, its most accurate. In addition to finding you colours from an image you’ve uploaded, it suggests other similar colour schemes from Colourlovers and Kuler. You can also download swatch files which I find useful. Color Palette Generator (DeGraeve.com) If you’re lazy or don’t have the image on your computer, this site lets you use URL’s instead.
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6 Color Scheme Tools COLORlovers The biggest resource community for colour palettes as well as patterns. Plus points that they spell “colour”correctly my British way. Kuler From Adobe it pretty much works the same way as COLORlovers where you also create your own schemes or edit others accordingly. Colorotate This site is a little more interactive and fun with the 3D elements. In addition there are few fun mixing/blending options. Color Scheme Designer The Wheel! A great resource for creating schemes as well options for “light-er” or “dark-er” versions. Pictaculous There are a few picture-to-colours applications but this is my favourite as, in my opinion, its most accurate. In addition to finding you colours from an image you’ve uploaded, it suggests other similar colour schemes from Colourlovers and Kuler. You can also download swatch files which I find useful. Color Palette Generator (DeGraeve.com) If you’re lazy or don’t have the image on your computer, this site lets you use URL’s instead.
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6 Color Scheme Tools COLORlovers The biggest resource community for colour palettes as well as patterns. Plus points that they spell “colour”correctly my British way. Kuler From Adobe it pretty much works the same way as COLORlovers where you also create your own schemes or edit others accordingly. Colorotate This site is a little more interactive and fun with the 3D elements. In addition there are few fun mixing/blending options. Color Scheme Designer The Wheel! A great resource for creating schemes as well options for “light-er” or “dark-er” versions. Pictaculous There are a few picture-to-colours applications but this is my favourite as, in my opinion, its most accurate. In addition to finding you colours from an image you’ve uploaded, it suggests other similar colour schemes from Colourlovers and Kuler. You can also download swatch files which I find useful. Color Palette Generator (DeGraeve.com) If you’re lazy or don’t have the image on your computer, this site lets you use URL’s instead.
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6 Color Scheme Tools COLORlovers The biggest resource community for colour palettes as well as patterns. Plus points that they spell “colour”correctly my British way. Kuler From Adobe it pretty much works the same way as COLORlovers where you also create your own schemes or edit others accordingly. Colorotate This site is a little more interactive and fun with the 3D elements. In addition there are few fun mixing/blending options. Color Scheme Designer The Wheel! A great resource for creating schemes as well options for “light-er” or “dark-er” versions. Pictaculous There are a few picture-to-colours applications but this is my favourite as, in my opinion, its most accurate. In addition to finding you colours from an image you’ve uploaded, it suggests other similar colour schemes from Colourlovers and Kuler. You can also download swatch files which I find useful. Color Palette Generator (DeGraeve.com) If you’re lazy or don’t have the image on your computer, this site lets you use URL’s instead.
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6 Color Scheme Tools COLORlovers The biggest resource community for colour palettes as well as patterns. Plus points that they spell “colour”correctly my British way. Kuler From Adobe it pretty much works the same way as COLORlovers where you also create your own schemes or edit others accordingly. Colorotate This site is a little more interactive and fun with the 3D elements. In addition there are few fun mixing/blending options. Color Scheme Designer The Wheel! A great resource for creating schemes as well options for “light-er” or “dark-er” versions. Pictaculous There are a few picture-to-colours applications but this is my favourite as, in my opinion, its most accurate. In addition to finding you colours from an image you’ve uploaded, it suggests other similar colour schemes from Colourlovers and Kuler. You can also download swatch files which I find useful. Color Palette Generator (DeGraeve.com) If you’re lazy or don’t have the image on your computer, this site lets you use URL’s instead.
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6 Color Scheme Tools

COLORlovers
The biggest resource community for colour palettes as well as patterns. Plus points that they spell “colour”correctly my British way.
Kuler
From Adobe it pretty much works the same way as COLORlovers where you also create your own schemes or edit others accordingly.
Colorotate
This site is a little more interactive and fun with the 3D elements. In addition there are few fun mixing/blending options.
Color Scheme Designer
The Wheel! A great resource for creating schemes as well options for “light-er” or “dark-er” versions.
Pictaculous
There are a few picture-to-colours applications but this is my favourite as, in my opinion, its most accurate. In addition to finding you colours from an image you’ve uploaded, it suggests other similar colour schemes from Colourlovers and Kuler. You can also download swatch files which I find useful.
Color Palette Generator (DeGraeve.com)
If you’re lazy or don’t have the image on your computer, this site lets you use URL’s instead.

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soldieronpond: The Black Book of Colors by Menena Cottin I stumbled across this while looking for a book for my cousin’s new baby. I was so intrigued by the whole idea. On each left page there was words written in braille and then again in white text. It was the description of colors, according to how a blind child would experience. On the right there were raised etchings of what each page was describing. It’s so beautiful.One page in particular that really caught my attention was the one describing the color red. It talked about how red is how it feels to bite into a ripe strawberry, or the stinging on your knee after you fall down.  Blue was the feeling of sunshine on your face.  It’s just so astounding that someone managed this, as the idea of how to describe a color to someone who has no reference has always fascinated and baffled me. Picture source here Available to purchase here Oh my god, HOW NEAT :o
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soldieronpond: The Black Book of Colors by Menena Cottin I stumbled across this while looking for a book for my cousin’s new baby. I was so intrigued by the whole idea. On each left page there was words written in braille and then again in white text. It was the description of colors, according to how a blind child would experience. On the right there were raised etchings of what each page was describing. It’s so beautiful.One page in particular that really caught my attention was the one describing the color red. It talked about how red is how it feels to bite into a ripe strawberry, or the stinging on your knee after you fall down.  Blue was the feeling of sunshine on your face.  It’s just so astounding that someone managed this, as the idea of how to describe a color to someone who has no reference has always fascinated and baffled me. Picture source here Available to purchase here Oh my god, HOW NEAT :o
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soldieronpond: The Black Book of Colors by Menena Cottin I stumbled across this while looking for a book for my cousin’s new baby. I was so intrigued by the whole idea. On each left page there was words written in braille and then again in white text. It was the description of colors, according to how a blind child would experience. On the right there were raised etchings of what each page was describing. It’s so beautiful.One page in particular that really caught my attention was the one describing the color red. It talked about how red is how it feels to bite into a ripe strawberry, or the stinging on your knee after you fall down.  Blue was the feeling of sunshine on your face.  It’s just so astounding that someone managed this, as the idea of how to describe a color to someone who has no reference has always fascinated and baffled me. Picture source here Available to purchase here Oh my god, HOW NEAT :o
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soldieronpond: The Black Book of Colors by Menena Cottin I stumbled across this while looking for a book for my cousin’s new baby. I was so intrigued by the whole idea. On each left page there was words written in braille and then again in white text. It was the description of colors, according to how a blind child would experience. On the right there were raised etchings of what each page was describing. It’s so beautiful.One page in particular that really caught my attention was the one describing the color red. It talked about how red is how it feels to bite into a ripe strawberry, or the stinging on your knee after you fall down.  Blue was the feeling of sunshine on your face.  It’s just so astounding that someone managed this, as the idea of how to describe a color to someone who has no reference has always fascinated and baffled me. Picture source here Available to purchase here Oh my god, HOW NEAT :o
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soldieronpond: The Black Book of Colors by Menena Cottin I stumbled across this while looking for a book for my cousin’s new baby. I was so intrigued by the whole idea. On each left page there was words written in braille and then again in white text. It was the description of colors, according to how a blind child would experience. On the right there were raised etchings of what each page was describing. It’s so beautiful.One page in particular that really caught my attention was the one describing the color red. It talked about how red is how it feels to bite into a ripe strawberry, or the stinging on your knee after you fall down.  Blue was the feeling of sunshine on your face.  It’s just so astounding that someone managed this, as the idea of how to describe a color to someone who has no reference has always fascinated and baffled me. Picture source here Available to purchase here Oh my god, HOW NEAT :o
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soldieronpond:

The Black Book of Colors by Menena Cottin

I stumbled across this while looking for a book for my cousin’s new baby. I was so intrigued by the whole idea. On each left page there was words written in braille and then again in white text. It was the description of colors, according to how a blind child would experience. On the right there were raised etchings of what each page was describing. It’s so beautiful.

One page in particular that really caught my attention was the one describing the color red. It talked about how red is how it feels to bite into a ripe strawberry, or the stinging on your knee after you fall down.  Blue was the feeling of sunshine on your face. 

It’s just so astounding that someone managed this, as the idea of how to describe a color to someone who has no reference has always fascinated and baffled me.

Picture source here

Available to purchase here

Oh my god, HOW NEAT :o

elegentmess: empyrealwolves: ninja-n: o-musubi: katanahime: miserylolita: say0ran: sancta-simplicitas: tettere: coffeemustache: tesett: prankmaster: paststrider: sardonicpuppeteer: wnycradiolab: If you’re interested in color theory, or you like beautifully-designed little games, or you just feel like being bad at something today (OH MY GOD SLOW DOWN TOO MANY COLORS), try this. (via Metafilter) 3.6. Fuck. 4.5 [ 6.2 ??? Falsmflak DANG ] 6.0 omg that was hard. especially toward the end  7.7 holy balls the last two were really hard D: 7.7 LOL I couldn’t figure out which was which when there were 3 of them at first OTL 8.4 sucked at all the vibrant colors OTL OTL OTL 9.4 9.2 OTL that was pretty interesting Also 9.2. I think I could do better since the 8 was in hue, the first one and what should be easiest. I just had this moment of what what what am I doing? Other than that, my scores followed a pattern. 9, 10, 9, 10, 9 lol 8.8. /o/ water you doing rei, you can do better than this. 10 10 9 7 8 9  8.2 …. /what is color/ ;u; 9 7 7 9 8 9 6.7 I was an idiot and couldn’t figure out which direction turning my mouse would do. OTL 8.3 ternary was a bitch somehow I’ll have to do this once I get done with my background tasks. o_o Lag was a pain in the ass!It is fun, though. 
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empyrealwolves:

ninja-n:

o-musubi:

katanahime:

miserylolita:

say0ran:

sancta-simplicitas:

tettere:

coffeemustache:

tesett:

prankmaster:

paststrider:

sardonicpuppeteer:

wnycradiolab:

If you’re interested in color theory, or you like beautifully-designed little games, or you just feel like being bad at something today (OH MY GOD SLOW DOWN TOO MANY COLORS), try this.

(via Metafilter)

3.6.

Fuck.

4.5

[ 6.2 ??? Falsmflak DANG ]

6.0

omg that was hard. especially toward the end 

7.7

holy balls the last two were really hard D:

7.7

LOL I couldn’t figure out which was which when there were 3 of them at first OTL

8.4

sucked at all the vibrant colors OTL OTL OTL

9.4

9.2 OTL that was pretty interesting

Also 9.2.

I think I could do better since the 8 was in hue, the first one and what should be easiest. I just had this moment of what what what am I doing?

Other than that, my scores followed a pattern. 9, 10, 9, 10, 9

lol

8.8. /o/ water you doing rei, you can do better than this.

10 10 9 7 8 9 

8.2 …. /what is color/ ;u; 9 7 7 9 8 9

6.7 I was an idiot and couldn’t figure out which direction turning my mouse would do. OTL

8.3

ternary was a bitch somehow

I’ll have to do this once I get done with my background tasks. o_o Lag was a pain in the ass!
It is fun, though. 

fuckyeahclassiclolita:

iheartchaos:

Minute physics: There is no pink

Nope, none. Pink does not actually exist. I’m a fan of pink, as you may have noticed from the design of this website, but it doesn’t actually exist. It’s your brain inventing the color because it doesn’t know what else to put there. So… tada.

SCIENCE! 

searingscarlet: The problem of course, is after about 5 minutes every grid looks the same. Including the fixed ones.  Anyhow. My score is 4. Not as good as I liked but it’s something to be content with, however I did have to take regular breaks. I’ve done something similar in the past and back then it was the blue-green hue I struggled with. I do wonder though if there’s a difference between monitor based tests and block based ones, for obvious reasons. This was fun, and I did pretty decent. Izzy and BB should try this! :’D And Neo, if he’d like to.And Tag. lol EVERYONE SHOULD DO IT! 
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searingscarlet:

The problem of course, is after about 5 minutes every grid looks the same. Including the fixed ones. 

Anyhow. My score is 4. Not as good as I liked but it’s something to be content with, however I did have to take regular breaks. I’ve done something similar in the past and back then it was the blue-green hue I struggled with.

I do wonder though if there’s a difference between monitor based tests and block based ones, for obvious reasons.

This was fun, and I did pretty decent. Izzy and BB should try this! :’D And Neo, if he’d like to.
And Tag. lol EVERYONE SHOULD DO IT! 

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