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Chernobyl At Home

Chernobyl At Home
When you ask how to reduce RGB light intensity and someone suggests just removing the blue and green values. Congratulations, you've turned your gaming setup into a nuclear reactor core. That ominous red glow isn't ambiance—it's a radiation warning. Setting RGB to (255, 0, 0) doesn't reduce light, it just makes everything look like you're developing photos in a darkroom or about to launch missiles. Your room now has the same energy as Reactor 4 right before things went sideways. At least your electricity bill matches the vibes. Pro tip: reducing RGB light means lowering the overall brightness values, not creating a monochromatic hellscape. Try (50, 50, 50) instead of becoming a supervillain.

I Thought My Lights Were Broken

I Thought My Lights Were Broken
Setting RGB lights to white and getting blue instead is the hardware equivalent of expecting "Hello World" but getting a segfault. RGB color mixing works by combining Red, Green, and Blue channels - so white should be (255, 255, 255). But if you're getting blue, either your red and green LEDs decided to take a vacation, or someone's firmware is having an existential crisis. It's like asking for coffee with cream and sugar but receiving straight espresso with a side of disappointment. The hardware gods have spoken, and they said "no."

The RGB Fingernail Debugger

The RGB Fingernail Debugger
The RGB hand sign - for when you need to debug CSS colors at 3 AM. Those three fingernails painted in red, green, and blue represent the holy trinity of web design pain. Every frontend dev has had that moment of "Is this #00FF00 or #00FF01?" while their sanity slowly fades away. And yes, we've all secretly considered painting our nails like this during that eighth consecutive hour of trying to match the designer's "slightly off-white but not quite eggshell" color.