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# Not to the same standard that I could, no.
None of this over simplified Pantone stuff. This was full on CIELAB colour space assessment.
(, Wed 23 Apr 2008, 19:34, archived)
# I had no idea it had to be so specific
(, Wed 23 Apr 2008, 19:35, archived)
# The company I worked in the QC lab for
mostly made leather for Rolls Royce, Aston Martin, Ferrari, Prince Charles's personal carriage, the House of Lords. That sort of thing. If someone is spending £100,000 on a car, they want to know that they can replace a seat panel if they tear it. We had to get the colour to match every other batch that had ever been made and so that it looked the same under daylight, sodium street lamps, flourescent tubes in their garage etc.
(, Wed 23 Apr 2008, 19:38, archived)
# Or, when being gripped by a sweaty gladiator.
(, Wed 23 Apr 2008, 19:40, archived)
# What of the stress-strain curves? And the intermittent plasticity under random temperature variations?
(, Wed 23 Apr 2008, 19:36, archived)
# it's always scary when this kind of conversation starts and i understand it
(, Wed 23 Apr 2008, 19:39, archived)
# Nah. Didn't have to do fogging or cold-cracking either.
(, Wed 23 Apr 2008, 19:39, archived)
# pffft
'cold-cracking'
(, Wed 23 Apr 2008, 19:47, archived)
# THE magazine for necrophilia since 1964
(, Wed 23 Apr 2008, 19:51, archived)