How good are you at guessing colors?

[Krikor]

(04-26-2024, 07:23 AM)Ofnuts Wrote:

(04-25-2024, 08:17 PM)Krikor Wrote:

(04-01-2024, 12:01 AM)Ofnuts Wrote: Test is here: https://susam.net/myrgb.html  (only 16 levels per channel) No cheating allowed 

I wondered if there was a way to cheat on this. 
After some reflection I found that the answer is yes! 

Plenty of apps to show the RGB value of any pixel on your screen, directly or indirectly. With Gimp only: File  > Create > Screen shot plus pointer dialog, on Linux you probably have xmag already installed.

That was the easy part. 

But I couldn't understand how to convert the RGB values of the color obtained into something that would give me the solution. 

I thought it was some hexadecimal conversion or some kind of code.
But yesterday, by chance, competing with a friend who did best in three attempts each and talking about it with him (about how to use the RGB value to get the easy answer), suddenly, no more than suddenly the solution came out of nowhere!

This test on this page is really cool and I feel like it helps me somehow think better about colors when I have to color an image.

But I was curious about how it would be possible to cheat the test.
At the time I posted my results here I had already tried unsuccessfully to find out how to get it right the first time with the help of GIMP, and I gave up. But yesterday the answer came so easily that I wondered how I hadn't figured it out sooner.

It's always like this, once we know the answer everything is easy.