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delecti an hour ago

An RGB value points to a single color, but if R is "really into trains" and B is "repetitive behavior" and G is "susceptibility to sensory overload", then it's basically the same metaphor as a multi channel audio mixer, except understandable to a different (and likely bigger) pool of people.

dfxm12 an hour ago | parent [-]

That line of reasoning doesn't follow as RGB implies there are exactly three measures, which isn't the case.

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Aardwolf 11 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

"spectrum" encompasses any hue, not just those 3, any frequency of light can have a different amplitude

jfindper an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>RGB implies there are exactly three measures

It's a metaphor.

It helps people build an intuition. It doesn't need to be exact to do that.

dfxm12 17 minutes ago | parent [-]

It doesn't have to be exact, but it's counter productive when it is clearly and meaningfully incorrect though. That's the problem with the two dimensional [0,1] scale as well.

jfindper 14 minutes ago | parent [-]

>so obviously incorrect though

I couldn't possibly disagree more.

delecti an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

That's just the limits of it being a metaphor. Audio mixers also only have a finite number of channels, but are also much less familiar to most people.