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What Your Favorite Blender View Transform Says About YOU! 🧵

"Standard" : Not doing anything shady here or anything you're just a normal guy asking normal questions. Red green and blue have all had it far too good for far too long.

"Khronos PBR Neutral" : Your favorite Star Trek was TNG. Your favorite graphics API is Vulkan. You saw a color square at the modern art museum and it ruined your day once. You're an excellent mediator and excel at finding compromises everyone feels weird about.

"AgX" : You're a chill guy who goes with the flow. You saw Magritte's "The Human Condition" in an art history text book once and it blew your mind. A painting of a painting of landscape in front of the landscape, photographed and printed on a text book, and then seen through your color blind eyes. It was, like, inception, man. You don't remember what the professor was saying that day.

"Filmic" : You're not the bightest tool in the shed, but you're one of the boldest. You're clumsy and occasionally walk into walls. You're an aging millennial hipster who enjoys hops, flannel, and irony. You're deeply set in your ways, not least of which is pointing out to everyone that you were "doing it before it was cool". You don't get why people hate the word "moist".

"Filmic Log" : You're an elderly woman living in a small quaint little town in the pacific northwest. People find you unnerving. You see the world as it truly is: logarithmically. And when the logs talk you listen. The owls are not as they seem.

"False Color" : You're with Plato on this one: all artists are liars, and must be punished. You will catch them in the act, and you will make them pay. You're a respected and feared member of your local home owner's association.

"Raw" : You have firmly held egalitarian beliefs, and a strong sense of justice. Whenever you talk about color with people they ask you if you have synesthesia for some reason. People come to you for advice, but then always do something else. You don't mind though. People need to find their own way. The world is full of beautiful color.

I spent entirely too much time today trying to make a color wheel that survives 's view transforms. Why do the PBR people hate color so much 😭 😭 😭

Interesting discovery though is if you can stay perceptually linear the color wheel survives a little better. PBR has an amazing ability to amplify all of HSV's horrific blending problems. PBR and HSV are like your two friends who become shittier people every time they hang out and go drinking together.

imo I think this is a *great* case for blender to add OkLab and OkLCH to the color picker and as interpolation modes to the ramp node

It's really wild to me how easy color is if you're painting with real paints and how tedious color is in the digital art tools I'm familiar with.

If I'm painting and I can't get a color right with the paints I have on hand, there's a store that sells more colors and they probably have what you need unless it's something really exotic.

With 3D rendering if you can't get a color right what you get instead is a mountain of theory that says color isn't real and you're wrong for wanting it.

The way I was trained to paint in art school, one of the very first things you establish before you do anything is exactly what you are going to be doing with color (what your pallet is going to be, what colors you're going to create directly via mixing paints, what colors you're going to create indirectly, and so on).

I don't think it is possible to work like that with PBR in Blender. It's so bizarre to me that you should ever be expected to treat color as a detail for post processing.

The color pickers built into blender are the bog standard RGB and HSV color pickers. I've always found these kinds of color pickers terrible for reasoning about color because they try to show you all of the colors at once, and usually don't include anything for reasoning about colors in terms of composition or relative characteristics.

I'm honestly not sure if you're just meant to memorize how to find the colors you can't see via the picker or just use a dedicated picker tool for serious work.

@jkaniarz hey this is neat :O I like this a lot