• bob_lemon@feddit.org
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        The problem is that averaging hue makes no sense at all because hue is not a longest scale.

        If you take a red poster (0) and a blue poster (240), it averages to green. Or take red (0) and red (359), averaging to cyan (180).

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          It would have made more sense if they had shown the distribution of hue as a polar graph and just had one every decade to show how it changes over time.

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      yeah that part of the graph is completely useless to people who haven’t memorised the exact degrees of the scale, which is most people, even most artists