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on this page: recommended listening related: prismatic colors: blue, green, red

A cyanometer is an instrument for measuring the blueness of the sky.

Coloring
https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/sets/72157663149641612/

App
https://itunes.apple.com/app/id407632559?mt=8

Recommended listening
[|Should artificial colours be banned?] - Specialist dietitian Joan Breakey from Brisbane discusses artificial food colouring and allergies.

[|The Power of Colour] - Red is passion and lust, courage and sacrifice. Blue is happy, or sad, or - in German - drunk. In India, yellow is said to have been made from the urine of cows, force-fed mango leaves. ** Cindy Bisaillon ** looks into the history, psychology, art, music and spirituality of colour. She uncovers the mysteries of the purple tears of sea snails, the vibrant orange of a Stradivarius violin, and the green that killed Napoleon.

[|Do you see what I see?] - Did people in the distant past see colour in the same way that we do? The most famously perplexing ancient colour description is Homer’s ‘wine-dark sea’. It's led to the proposition that the ancient Greeks had defective colour vision. Is this the case, or did they understand and perceive colour in an altogether different way to us?

Elsewhere on the Web
The color wheel randomizes among some 16 million colors. And since each spin produces three different colors, that gives endless combinations. (or 2 to the power of 70 or so, which is a very large number). Enough to keep anyone busy for a while. http://www.colorsontheweb.com/colorwheel.asp

http://www.fastcompany.com/3009317/why-is-facebook-blue-the-science-behind-colors-in-marketing

http://time.com/patriotic-flag-colors

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Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-Glo_Color_Corp.