Enver Kurti
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Hey, everyone! This is the second article I'm writing for this Encyclopedia so once again, I apologize if it's in the wrong section.
I was recently reading Peter Davis-Garnier's "RMS Titanic: A Modelmaker's Manual", and in that book, it is stated that the "White Star buff" colour was sometimes referred to as "White Star pink". That got me thinking, "were Titanic's funnels really that visibly pink that people used to call the colour by that name?" After all, we do know that "White Star buff" was more than just buff. If it weren't, I won't be making this post in the first place.
So, I took a shade of buff and started turning the blue slider up, right until I got a hint of pink, and then I applied it on my Titanic model in Blender, but when I turned on rendered view mode, it appeared exactly like the original buff shade I picked up.
(Please note that this is only a screenshot and thus isn't high resolution)
However, when I switched to another HDR resembling overcast conditions, this is what happened to the funnel colour:
So, basically, I had one colour, resembling different shades in different lighting conditions: buff when sunlight was directly hitting it, but pink whenever it was not, such as in overcast conditions.
The colour hex I used was #f1ab91.
So, is it possible that what we call "White Star buff" was in reality a mixture of buff and pink, appearing closer to one of the two under different lighting conditions, hence leading to much of the confusion surrounding the colour?
I'd love to hear everyone's opinions about this, and honestly, it would be great if anyone is able to debunk this argument, as I would love to have an accurate WSB colour.
Thank you for reading the above short post.
(P.S. There is a colour photo of Olympic where the sky in which the sky is sort-of overcast and the funnels appear pink, which may lend credence to my theory.)
I was recently reading Peter Davis-Garnier's "RMS Titanic: A Modelmaker's Manual", and in that book, it is stated that the "White Star buff" colour was sometimes referred to as "White Star pink". That got me thinking, "were Titanic's funnels really that visibly pink that people used to call the colour by that name?" After all, we do know that "White Star buff" was more than just buff. If it weren't, I won't be making this post in the first place.
So, I took a shade of buff and started turning the blue slider up, right until I got a hint of pink, and then I applied it on my Titanic model in Blender, but when I turned on rendered view mode, it appeared exactly like the original buff shade I picked up.
(Please note that this is only a screenshot and thus isn't high resolution)
However, when I switched to another HDR resembling overcast conditions, this is what happened to the funnel colour:
So, basically, I had one colour, resembling different shades in different lighting conditions: buff when sunlight was directly hitting it, but pink whenever it was not, such as in overcast conditions.
The colour hex I used was #f1ab91.
So, is it possible that what we call "White Star buff" was in reality a mixture of buff and pink, appearing closer to one of the two under different lighting conditions, hence leading to much of the confusion surrounding the colour?
I'd love to hear everyone's opinions about this, and honestly, it would be great if anyone is able to debunk this argument, as I would love to have an accurate WSB colour.
Thank you for reading the above short post.
(P.S. There is a colour photo of Olympic where the sky in which the sky is sort-of overcast and the funnels appear pink, which may lend credence to my theory.)
) it came in two shades - light and dark. All colours appear different in different lights. See here:
