Modes Parts 1 - 9

[Richard_close2u]

Here are some of the responses made:

@glpguitar

I do not know if you need them one by one but with me it went like:
Seeing the first and second: complete confusion what those squares show, they also feel differently sized (optical illusion like). Continuing to a third: wait a second, there’s something going on. On the last one, okay I see a cylinder of squares rolling and making a colourful circle

@adi_mrok

No.1 Ok great colours
No.2 Where the heck is green?!
No.3 Blues are going, damn
No.4 I REPEAT, BLUES ARE GOING!
No.5 Blues are gone, very sunny now
No.6 Oh green is back!
No.7 And green has a friend now!

@LievenDV

Are you trying to capture the modes in colors?
No.1 impressions - a box of colors in a windows 3.11 mspaint, cold set of colors with green and red trying but not getting nay warmer than the tints of blue between them. No real character besides being rather cold, from an older, digital age. Unpersonal, chill but with potential to slide into something more comfortable because green is optimistic
No.2 - A bit more character. The orange leads the other colors, leading the by example of what a color can be when it succeeds to “stand out”. The red is the second in command while the army of cold tints follows in a neat formation.
No.3 - A better balance than 2, shifting the weight more to the middle of the set. Here the purple becomes the center of attention, with red as his executive officer. The set feels more natural because it covers a broader spectrum.
No.4 - A natural quality of summer to it. It feels rather balanced. It was a warm day but a gentle cooling night already took a part of the sky. Excellent time to order that cocktail
No.5 - Getting radiant, trying hard to be noticed and hip. The overenthusiastic character of a group of youngsters is represented by the red and yellows. Energetic but needs to be tempered now and then
No.6 - Purple is the odd one out but he’s learning to fit in. He brings spice in a balanced set and reminds the rest that diversity actually makes stronger. “At first we thought purple would mess around with our balance but we learned to accept him”.
No.7 - Classic balanced score card / condition formatting. What you expect, the most vanilla of the modes? Nothing surprising, no real character and very neutral. Lows, highs all in balance with the risk of becoming dull.

@DarrellW

I prefer to look at it as a progression on colours and tones that also shows the relationship between them. To me this is only a part of the progression but indicates where it is possibly going to. I think that 1 to 7 may represent a progressive change in feel from cold to warm.

@stuartw

The main thing I see is that the red square moves right to left as you do down the list! Actually, all the colours move from right to left. I’m not getting anything apart from a bunch of colours. I guess I must be missing something.

@CT

I didn’t see one color in the whole lot that I didn’t like. All my favorite colors are well represented. Does it make sense that my eyes tend to focus on the middle color of each set?
EDIT: And then (according to my perception) the colors rotate one click to the left from center.

@firstrazor

There are altogether 12 colors circling. If one color represents 2 hours, this is about half day from dawn to noon. Sorry I am an engineer by training, that’s the best I can describe.

@DavidP

My sense is of 7 progressions … majority are a harmonious flow from the leftmost shade to the righmost. But a few had a single colour that jarred and didn’t seem to belong, which made me curious as to why it was there. For me it is about evolution and change, how a big shift eventually happens through small shifts, each of which was gentle … except for those patterns that included the colour that didn’t seem to fit.

@brianlarsen

The colours are gross. They all remind me of of trying to decide which bit-number colour display I should choose for my monitor when my pc’s memory is running low. My main thoughts centre around: Why does Richard want to know? Is Richard really asking the question or is this post-vaccination ‘chip-phishing’. Sorry if that’s not helpful, but I’m sure I’ll be entertained peering into the minds of fellow-forumites!

@Rossco01

The green seems the odd one out to me… the other swatches move from “cool” blue to “hot” orange/red in variations.

@ChaseTheDream

When I first looked through the groupings I sensed a change in tension from one to the next.

@kontenda

A gradual rage that peaks and then slowly calms.

@skinnyt

I just saw a series of coloured boxes, didn’t see/think/feel anything else. Looking at paint shop charts really.

@dan71

Gut reactions: they all feel partial (missing a colour) and in the wrong order. You seem to like orange and blue. That yellow is kinda unpleasant (to me, on this screen). If they’re about picking a colour scheme for something, then maybe #2 … they work together while still being clearly different and having scope for an accent / highlight.

I also received various direct messages in response to this. I also sought comment from friends, family and others. So I collated a large set of responses.