How many colours are out there?
We can’t answer. Perhaps one of the most accurate estimates speaks of 1.7 million colours that humans can perceive.
In 2017, Dr Janelle Shane, a researcher at the University of San Diego in California, dared to go further: she asked AI (in this case a suitably trained neural network) to “invent new colours“.
Total disaster!
AI will also be intelligent. But it’s definitely not creative.
The colours were mostly in shades that were not very “bright”, such as beige, brown and grey. A riot of flatness, in short. Just like its cuisine…
Not to mention the names with which, again the AI, she decided to baptize these new colours: “Soreer Grey” is a kind of greenish colour, and “Sane Green” a purplish blue; a type of purple was named “Dondarf” and a grass green “Bylfgoam Glosd“.
But nothing compared to farty red, and colon pink….
However, whatever your preferences are as it comes to chromatology… if you need a hood, Aluminox can supply it painted!
It must be one of those 216 colours on the RAL system.
No red fart, sorry!