optimal color scheme

[Jorian Meeuse]

Thanks for calling me incompetent while I have proof to back up my own subjective findings : )


I didn't say random colors. Nobody specified anything about the alternate color schemes.

If you just swap yellow for black, that's a different color scheme. So suppose you have a white cross only solver.
They will probably adjust to solving on a cube with black opposite white a lot faster than if you asked them to get the same times solving on something like red cross.

Well, in that case I suppose I'm also color scheme neutral. If the red is slightly darker and the blue is slightly lighter I'll solve equally as fast...

 

[OtaMota]

Yippee

 

[PatrickDoesPyraminx]

What if instead of cyan you had like black or something

 

[Tigerninja]

I've thought a little more about the colour schemes and come up with a system. This system is HSL-based. We have white and black. The other colours all have different saturation and lightness (or luminance). Brightness and saturation have a negative correlation, which means that if a colour has a high saturation value it has a low lightness value. The reason I chose the correlation to be negative is to avoid really dark colours. The hue is 90° for the first colour, 180° for the second, and so on. If we made the first colour have a hue of 100° instead, all the colours would be a little different. (The second colour would have a hue of 190°.)

The biggest advantage of this colour system is that two colours can't possibly be too similar because every colour has different saturation and lightness values.

I've also made a Scratch project where you can change the hue for the first colour and also change the correlation to be positive.
Link to the Scratch project

 

[Bingus Ringus McDingus]

My ideal sticker shades, for both conventional (which I prefer) and black-side (which probably is better).

 

[Tigerninja]

I now realised that because the problem can "be reduced to" finding four colours. that aren't black and white, we can make use of square colours. Square colours are colours that are 90° apart in the hue slider for HSL and HSB, but that have the same saturation and lightness/brightness. The idea for my Scratch project was for it to work in greyscale, which I thought would be helpful for when not much colour can be perceived. Of course that is not how colour vision works and a colour scheme looks bad when it's not vibrant.

Here are three colour schemes for a cube with white, black and four square colours. These look like colours that people would put on a speedcube. They're a little more vibrant when I'm looking at the screenshots on my computer, so it's probably something with speedsolving.com.

 

[Spencer131]

Thanks for calling them "silly algs". Inspires me a lot with such kind words.

abhi I am rooting for you and 5-style

we know that it is a long-term project and it will take time to get results. i hope you can prove the skeptics wrong

 

[abunickabhi]

abhi I am rooting for you and 5-style

we know that it is a long-term project and it will take time to get results. i hope you can prove the skeptics wrong

Thanks for believing. I hope I am doing the right thing.

I enjoy cubing a lot yo!

 

[Justincubes]

Thanks for believing. I hope I am doing the right thing.

I enjoy cubing a lot yo!

You can do this yo

 

[Maddoxer]

How to get black pieces when stickerd cubes are no longer offered? Sharpie the orange side?

Specific cubes offer different plastic colour

 

[Cubist-Guitar]

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Yippee

Did you go over the orange pieces with another coat of black yet?

 

[SpeakCuba]

Oh, I guess I learned something.

Usually color blind people will use black for easier distinction between colors.

 

[OtaMota]

Did you go over the orange pieces with another coat of black yet?

Nah, the black went off, and I didn’t feel like making it black again. I only use black at this point for Virtual cube it seems

 

[Bingus Ringus McDingus]

Nah, the black went off, and I didn’t feel like making it black again. I only use black at this point for Virtual cube it seems

hee hee

 

[JDAW6]

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hee hee

He made a song called “black or white” ig he chose the latter

 

[Bingus Ringus McDingus]

He made a song called “black or white” ig he chose the latter

I'm trying to find a way to insult that remark but I physically can't.

 

[bramsoepic]

why not have purple replace blue and black replace yellow