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Listacorta
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Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 17
Use of Color and Spectrum References In PPC The only purpose of this thread is to keep a record of how the game uses colors, and specifically, the spectrum. This may be of some use later in the game, either as a means of providing perspective on relationships among in-game personalities or actual puzzles.
Direct references:
Sente Kiteway has two daughters, Scarlett and Violet, colors that are on opposite ends of the spectrum.
The cards, ascend in order of difficulty, from Red to Violet (there is no indigo), before switching to silver and black.
Card #27 has a clue "colors in the rainbow".
On the whipsmartice.com site, "Pastures Green" takes you to a new screen, where the rainbow in the background tinkles with stars when you move your mouse across it.
Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 12:51 pm
tanner
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Joined: 21 May 2003 Posts: 875 Location: (x,y,z,t,i, ...)+
if there was a white between the silver(grey) and the black and a brown for no 1 the cards would be the same as the resister colour code
so i guess thats junk idea -- doah
sorry
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Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 12:57 pm
spaceXplorer
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Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 178 Location: Behind you....
Re: Use of Color and Spectrum References In PPC Don't forget the ZX Spectrum which was one of the answers on the Geek Antiques card
Also, if I wanted to be a total pedant, I would say that Scarlet isn't *actually* one of the colours of the spectrum (it's just plain old Red as far as i ever knew), and also Scarlett is spelt differently from the colour (with two t's at the end)....but hey, life's too short for such minor quibbles!
I actually think you've made a really good point here - there could well be something in this that is worth considering later in the game.
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Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 1:05 pm
Listacorta
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Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 17
Re: Use of Color and Spectrum References In PPC
spaceXplorer wrote:
Don't forget the ZX Spectrum which was one of the answers on the Geek Antiques card
Also, if I wanted to be a total pedant, I would say that Scarlet isn't *actually* one of the colours of the spectrum (it's just plain old Red as far as i ever knew), and also Scarlett is spelt differently from the colour (with two t's at the end)....but hey, life's too short for such minor quibbles!
I do want to keep this thread to the facts, and not to speculation, but I couldn't resist quoting this bio from the Academy Website (arts department):
Antoine Vielle holds a fellowship in poetry. He is well-known for his two volume cycle of verse: Never Odd and Or Even, in which many of the poems contain some linguistic "trick" such as a preponderance of homophones, or a letter missed out.
Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 3:50 pm
Spankit
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Also, if you look at the subway lines on the back of the "24 Hours in Perplex City" pamphlet from the mailing, you'll notice that all the lines are fancy-shmancy names for brown, green, black, red, orange, and blue.
I know this whole spectrum thing probably means absolutely nothing, but as long as we're looking at the use of colors I thought I might as well throw that out there.
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Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 6:14 pm
InspJJ
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Also the ice cream flavours are quite clearly colour-specific as well as sounding yummy...
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Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 6:45 pm
Salkunh
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Joined: 10 Oct 2004 Posts: 359 Location: Liverpool, UK
But where is the chocolate?!?! the perplexians must be so depressed without chocoloate ice cream
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Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 7:14 pm
hannah
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Joined: 29 Nov 2004 Posts: 120 Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Salkunh wrote:
But where is the chocolate?!?! the perplexians must be so depressed without chocoloate ice cream
isaac neopolitan, if its like our neopolitan ice cream, has a strip of chocolate ice cream in it
Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 7:34 pm
POTUS
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Joined: 08 Mar 2005 Posts: 277 Location: The shores of the great lake Erie
Software:
Sente Kiteway was headed up the development of Redlock, now the standard corporate security protocol
Sentinel Founder:
Redward Innes
Sentinel Reporter:
Amber Mai-Wan
Roll for Damage_Publicist:
Shane Cobalt
Place:
Adamek Green
Robart Kermeen / Great Lawn:
the ritual of hiding brightly coloured cube replicas around the Academy and inviting local schoolchildren into the Academy to find them.
Department of Mathematics & Logic:
Janna Gold is senior fellow in number theory
Puzzle Card map:
Aurora Drive
The Clock of Marbles: (ok they're not colours ;: )
the black and white balls as they emerge and disappear though holes in the wall
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Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 3:14 am
AdamF
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Joined: 29 Apr 2005 Posts: 6 Location: Cambridge
Pointed this out on another thread but perhaps for tidiness sake it should go here too.
Quote:
Anyone else noticed that the colours on the rainbow are wrong? It's like the normal colours have been chopped in half at green and flipped round. I see 3 possible explanations:
1. It's a mistake, unlikely.
2. They have different version of the electromagnetic spectrum. Again, unlikely, but if E = MC 3 then who knows.
3. It's some kind of code or tells us what do do with a code. Any thoughts on what it means?
Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 6:07 am
Seej
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Joined: 30 Nov 2004 Posts: 614
From the May 9th Sentinel update two new names:
Employment lawyer Yasmin Olive tte
Sienna Green lawn, 24, currently a puzzle-setter in the PCAG organisation
Though sienna is more of a browny sort of colour if I remember my Art GCSE (which, frankly, I don't very well, but still.....).
Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 12:19 pm
Violet
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Joined: 08 Mar 2005 Posts: 217
Seej wrote:
Though sienna is more of a browny sort of colour if I remember my Art GCSE (which, frankly, I don't very well, but still.....).
yeah, we've got 'burnt sienna' coloured pencils at school, they're just brown, so I don't know why it doesn't say brown, the kids don't care!
Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 2:05 pm
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