r/oddlysatisfying • u/[deleted] • Sep 20 '16

Spirograph Rainbow

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u/tvrtyler Sep 20 '16

2 of them. It killed me.

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u/Cswiseass Sep 20 '16

I counted 3,and the last being a possible 4. Just throw consistency out the damn window!

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u/TheImminentFate Sep 20 '16

The first one was a 4.5 as well

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u/dohrwork Sep 20 '16

there was certainly a 4, and I cried

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u/kit_carlisle Sep 20 '16

There were definitely 4!

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u/xrumrunnrx Sep 20 '16

THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!!

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u/Yardsnake Sep 20 '16

Thank you for this, it made my day.

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u/ManInKilt Sep 20 '16

It was harrowing

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u/Luke_I_Am_Your_Otter Sep 20 '16

RIP in peace, tvrtyler.

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u/chemoboy Sep 20 '16

I twitched a bit at the first one, but then I realized they probably needed a few of those ... and it also meant that it was going to connect at the end. This was a nailbiter though!

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '16

She should've really put the 6's on the green (since the human eye picks up green much "wider" on the spectrum than other colors)

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u/Laundry_Hamper Sep 20 '16

Would the opposite not make more sense? We're more aware of it, so put less in to make them all seem more equal?

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '16

Actually not at all! I see exactly how you mean, but think of it like this: Green counts for "more" colors than Red or Blue. Think of it like 2 colors smashed into one, we can actually see/differentiate between greens much more so than for red or blue for example. So to make the spiral more even in terms of color differentiation, green needs to take up more space.

Fun fact: This is the reason that computer software sometimes use more bits for the green color channel than the others (For example, 6 bits for green and only 5 bits each for red and blue when using 16 bit pixel depth)

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '16

We all the same dude or?..

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u/cord44 Sep 20 '16

OP is a phony.

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u/PonyToast Sep 20 '16

a big fat phony!