Blog reader David Briggs has made a brilliant contribution to
this idea. He discovered a website called couleur.org by
Philippe Colantoni that allows us to actually visualize a color
scheme in three dimensions. What you’re looking at here is a
Dinotopia painting called “Palace in the Clouds” paired with a
representation of the color scheme expressed in three
dimensions. The little floating blobs represent the amounts of
each component color of the composition. On the left you see the
hexagonal color wheel in pastel tones. Floating above that,
white and blue blobs indicate the large areas of white and blue
areas of the picture. The diagram on the right shows the same
diagram as viewed from the side. The vertical dimension
indicates the value—or the level of lightness or darkness. The
yellow and brown colors show up as little beads floating to the
right of the red center line. Here’s another painting with its
color scheme chart. You’ll notice that most of the colors are
fairly grayed down, which places them nea