Quote Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter View Post
Steve, as I'm sure you're aware, color is just reflected light. Perception depends on how each of our eyes distinguish the wave length of the reflected light. And there in lies the rub. Some folks have color blindness, and in many it's at different levels. Being in the medical business you're probably familiar with some folks being what we call total color blindness and only see things in varying shades of what the rest of us consider grey. Others only are blind to certain colors. Men have a greater tendency to color blindness than women. And then in this internet slice of the world monitor reproduction adds to the equation. You may not be able to see what we're seeing for any of those reasons. However, in the picture below if you focus on the portions of the doors, hood, and cowl/B pillar as reflected over the grey carpet it's pretty clear to those of us with the "gift" to see it that the cowl and pillar are, let's say, "brighter or whiter" by comparison.
I saw it right away. The car was painted "apart" which is often a recipe for disaster. I did an orange pearl '40 coupe that way a number of years ago, and tried to do everything exactly the same... at the SAME TIME! It looked good under most condidtions... but under some light it would show. That was the last time I'll ever do that! {:-(