Oops, you already explained. I purposely answered before reading anything more, because I found that even looking at people’s answers influenced me. “Oh dear, everyone seems to like R1, what’s wrong with me”, kind of thing.
Never mind. I’ll be over here nudging the water dispenser.
Squeek.
I choose R3 G2 B1
BTW; I’ll post the analysis of the results tonight
I think this is a cunning ploy to veto his wife’s new colour scheme for the living room. “See honey, 47 out of 50 respondents said your colours suck!”
Either that or he’s designing a new suit for Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen.
R1 G3 B3
Use me! Use me too, use me too…<wait, can they arrest me for saying that?>
OK - I haven’t entered all of the responses into the spreadsheet yet.
(that doesn’t mean they won’t still arrest you)
R3 G2 B3
I liked the color blends better that way.
R1 G2 B3
please tell me why… and tell me why we are doing this if you have a moment… I feel a bit like a sheep… baaa!
Two set of answers, depending on what ‘best’ means…
R1G2B1 as far as smooth blending goes.
R3G3B3 as far as colour harmony goes.
I think that r3, g3, and b1 are the best. I copied the picture into paint and put it on a black background, which really helped the colors “pop” out.
Hm.
R3, G2, B…1.
I had a really hard time deciding between B1 and B3: I like both. But, if I were to use those colors for painting my room, for instance, I’d probably use B1.
<< ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI! >>
R3G2B3
I’m RG colour blind so G2 and B3 look like solid dots, not blends.
R3 G2 B1
R3 G2 B1
R3 G2 B1
R1, G3, B1
R3 G1 B3
I wasn’t really crazy about any of them.
R3 G2 B1.
Just liked them better that way.
R3 G3 and B3
R3, G2, B1
Ok, thanks again for all the input.
The purpose of the test (which, as I said, is a little flawed) was to try to determine whether people think of:
Cyan as a better match for blue than green
Magenta as a better match for red than blue
Yellow as a better match for green than red
The results:
Cyan - Blue(33), Green(18), Red(1)
Magenta - Blue(29), Reg(20), Green(1)
Yellow - Green(43), Red(41), Blue(0)
So, the experiment did not yield the expected result, but I think I asked the wrong question.
If anyone is interested in analysing the data form themselves, the spreadsheet can be found [here](http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gurman/colour affinities.xls), or just the bar chart showing the resuls here - there are some potentially interesting things to explore, for example whether a person who matched red and yellow is more likely to also match another set of colours…
I think a better test would be to present the participant with a series of colours, each of which was an uneven mix of two (RGB)primaries, and give them the choice of ‘classifying’ the mixture as one of the three choices ‘red’, ‘green’ or ‘blue’ (or assigning the mixed shade to the category that is least wrong.
I suspect that shades of cyan would mostly be classified as blue, even if the actual mix contains a slightly higher proportion of green, likewise, I think magenta will cross to red before the point of balance. Yellow, on the other hand, I thought would have tended towards green, but I think that is wrong and that it would be found to lean towards red (if any of that makes any sense).