Color Schemes, the good the bad and the visible

[Don Ramsey]

I've have some posting from other discussions about colors on my website at
www.cox-internet.com/donramsey under the Building section.

Don
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anne & Xavier" <xavier.mouraux at sympatico.ca>
To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 5:22 PM
Subject: Re: RE: Color Schemes, the good the bad and the visible


> I would add something else on the shape. I was told by a friend once, that
> the eyes see shape differences better and quicker than colour differences.
> Triangular shapes on top and rectangular shapes on bottom or triangular
and
> round could be good. That's what I usually try to do and it works for me.
> As it was said, at a distance, everything become grey. Grey, dark grey,
> darker grey and light grey. If you could use a computer program like
> Photoshop, create your scheme (or at least the same colour arrangement)
then
> turn it to greyscale. Check if you still see it. Try it from a distance
from
> the screen also. If it is still visible, you are on a good track.
> Bob Noll also says that he always try to have half and half dark and light
> on top, bottom and sides of the plane.
>
> Xavier
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron Lockhart" <ronlock at comcast.net>
> To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 9:15 AM
> Subject: Re: RE: Color Schemes, the good the bad and the visible
>
>
> >
> > A few more thoughts (that are in agreement with
> > Terry and Wojtek comments)
> >
> > At a distance in poor visibility conditions there
> > is only light and dark, color isn't distinctive.
> >
> > I like a mostly white top, with a spanwise dark
> > stripe. Red, Blue, Brown, Orange, etc are all dark.
> > Only white, and lemon yellow, not cub yellow,
> > appear distinctively light for me.
> >
> > Bottom mostly dark with chord wise light stripe,
> > or light with large chord wise dark stripe and
> > dark fuse bottom.
> >
> > Later, Ron Lockhart
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Tomanek, Wojtek" <tomanekw at saic-abingdon.com>
> > Date: Wednesday, March 5, 2003 9:01 am
> > Subject: RE: Color Schemes, the good the bad and the visible
> >
> > > Here is some good info on color schemes for a pattern plane.  As Terry
> > > stated, the important thing is that you see the plane in all
> > > conditions.From personal (and this is very personal) I have always
> > > liked the red white
> > > and blue color combinations and I can see them relatively well.
> > > Howeverlast year at the NATs I lost a sight of my plane for a
> > > split second in a
> > > vertical upline with a roll and had to relay on the memory and
> > > thrust where
> > > the plane could/should be.  Normally I use dark blue, in this case
> > > bottom of
> > > fuse and main theme of the wings was light blue and it generally
> > > shows well
> > > against the east coast sky, but that day at the NATs the sky was
> > > perfectblue with no hint of clouds or humidity - the colors
> > > matched perfectly; the
> > > sky and the wing fuse combination.  The guideline here is to not
> > > just select
> > > what looks good on the ground and is visible (generally gray scale
> > > contrasting colors work best), try to compare against the
> > > background that
> > > you will see the plane during normal practice/contests.  White
> > > tips and
> > > leading edges are a good idea too.  On one of my planes I did put
> > > a highly
> > > reflective holographic silver tape (glider guys are using this
> > > stuff) - it
> > > helped a lot during landings in the evenings when the visibility
> > > is bad
> > > especially at low altitude and during sunny days, you could not
> > > miss the
> > > leading edge even if you wanted to.
> > >
> > > Hope this helps.
> > >
> > >
> > > http://home.att.net/~district3/district_3_045.htm
> > > <" target="l">http://home.att.net/~district3/district_3_045.htm>
> > >
> > > http://home.att.net/~district3/district_3_049.htm
> > > <" target="l">http://home.att.net/~district3/district_3_049.htm>
> > >
> > >
> > >
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