Got a Question Nobody Can Answer? Ask a Scientist! Aug. 2, 2005
by William Dube Follow RITNEWS on Twitter Do blue and yellow
really make green? What color reflects the least amount of heat?
What is the best color to paint walls in a factory? These and
other questions about color can now be answered thanks to an
innovative project at Rochester Institute of Technology. “Ask a
Color Scientist”, an Internet-based message board, allows anyone
with a color-related question to connect with scientists and
researchers at RIT’s Munsell Color Science Laboratory.
Professors provide detailed responses and offer additional
material for further study. The message board is already
fielding questions from students, teachers and research
scientists from around the world. “It has been very challenging
and rewarding to answer these questions as they come in,” says
Mark Fairchild, director of the laboratory, in RIT’s Chester F.
Carlson Center for Imaging Science. “In particular, the queries
that stump me for a while are the most