Cyberglitz - Revolving Cube

For a truly visceral sense of color, here are some interesting things to bend your mind with while you watch the cube turn:

If you think of White as the North Pole and Black as the South Pole, notice which points on the cube are above the "equator" and which are below. If you ever wondered why Red, Green and Blue (RGB) seem darker than Cyan, Magenta and Yellow (CMYK), you can now see it's due to the color's relative proximity to the dark or light "pole". If you look at the Color Ramp animation you'll wonder why Brightness in the HSB color space dips below 100% on the trip diagonally across the face of the cube between Red and Blue.

This image Copyright 1996-2002
by Gail D. Parker, Cyberglitz As the cube turns, notice that each of its points is either 6 cells away from White or 6 cells away from Black. A point in the center of a face (diagonally between points) is only 3 cells away from White or Black.

So...Brightness in the HSB color space dips below 100% on the trip diagonally across the face of the cube between Red and Blue because 3 cells away from Black is pretty dark!

For a truly visceral sense of color, here are some interesting things to bend your mind with while you watch the cube turn:
If you think of White as the North Pole and Black as the South Pole, notice which points on the cube are above the "equator" and which are below. If you ever wondered why Red, Green and Blue (RGB) seem darker than Cyan, Magenta and Yellow (CMYK), you can now see it's due to the color's relative proximity to the dark or light "pole".	If you look at the Color Ramp animation you'll wonder why Brightness in the HSB color space dips below 100% on the trip diagonally across the face of the cube between Red and Blue.
	This image Copyright 1996-2002 by Gail D. Parker, Cyberglitz	As the cube turns, notice that each of its points is either 6 cells away from White or 6 cells away from Black. A point in the center of a face (diagonally between points) is only 3 cells away from White or Black.
So...Brightness in the HSB color space dips below 100% on the trip diagonally across the face of the cube between Red and Blue because 3 cells away from Black is pretty dark!