The Mysterious Wall (Help!!!) :(

[Ricky]

Ok, so I was walking to school this morning when the weirdest question popped into my head...

Say, you were to have a 2.5 meter tall and 5 meter long wall

You divide that wall into rhombuses of 5 millimeters in height and 2.5 millimeters in width



Using every shade of color you begging to fill the rhombuses. Keeping in mind not to put a shade of a said color next to another of the same type:



(Green colors are next to each other)



Also remembering not to leave the outlines of the rhombuses sine they might conflict with the results.

Ok, so once its done you run to a very far distance, until the wall seems like the size of book cover.

What color will the wall appear to be?



I realize this is a very strange question to ask, but its been bugging me all day...

(Also I'm sorry about using pictures made in paint, but that's the only image program I have in my laptop and I didn't want to wait until I got home to post it)

P.S:
I posted this here because It is not specified that questions from "Halp pls" have to be about Pogotribe.

[Ryan]

This is strange, but I don't think its possible to even color all the rhombuses. Look up the Four color theory and you'll understand (maybe).

[Ricky]

Alright, I guess it would be impossible not to have any of the same/similar color touching, but it would be possible to keep them to a minimal. I only mentioned it because if you put a bunch of greens on one side that part its going to loo green

[The Doctor]

The color would probably be either dark brown or black, because of the distance, and the fact that if you mix alot of colors toghether, Please correct this word , it will most likely end up beeing brown

[Ryan]

If that's the case Ricky, then I think it might look gray or brown. It wouldn't look black or white b/c there is not enough color to make it look like that. If you made it so that there was a very specific number of colors (i.e. pick 6 colors to make the entire wall out of making them touch as least often as possible) then there would be calculate-able results.

[The Doctor]

Ya, youre right, totally misjudged the distance... Haha, dunno why, but I kept imaging the wall so far away that you hardly could see it... Brownish would probably be the color... maybe, Actually now Im really psyched to find out!

[Ricky]

The Doctor:

I know! I wanted to do it on one of my room's walls but it would take too long, and i'm already somewhat busy. Also, I don't have the money for the paint XD

[frowgboy]

couldnt you just do it on photoshop? make the grey wall, color the diff rombuses, then zoom out untill desired size?

[Ricky]

Wouldn't parts of the wall become too pixelated if you do it on a computer and zoom out?

[Joey]

paint a real wall, lol. thats the most logical way to do it.

[Tyrope]

Mar 11, 2010 20:44:10 GMT -5 Ricky said:

Wouldn't parts of the wall become too pixelated if you do it on a computer and zoom out?

start zoomed in (say, 2000%)

OR, use vector images.. like flash does.