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Offline topher

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Re: red paint
« Reply #10 on: 17 August 2004, 15:53 »
its all to do with CMYK and RGB pigmenting systems. red CMYK colours will fade faster than red RGB, so maybe the vw mars red is CMYK ?
(basically all to do with light being reflected from yellow and magenta rather than a base red in RGB) before i confuse myself.. read this

http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/nov98/912228411.Ch.r.html

as for the wax thing, i always assumed the wax reflected more light away from the paint making it appear brighter, maybe its all down to UV and our cars need to start wearing sunglasses ?8)
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Re: red paint
« Reply #11 on: 17 August 2004, 15:58 »
thanks tophuh, i like to know why and now i know!!
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Re: red paint
« Reply #12 on: 17 August 2004, 16:06 »
bunsen burners and mg

ah those were the days  8)
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Re: red paint
« Reply #13 on: 17 August 2004, 16:21 »
Ah yeah. . . . . Dont look into the light!
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