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My LG Dare Drawing Pad application offers me a rainbow tool, and its color range is limited. No dark green, for example. Why is that?

So I decided to take a look at the colors, and math solved my problem.

Here's what the rainbow tool looks like as you apply it.

Pretty. And as I've discovered, a way to get more colors from the 6-color palette that the Dare offers. But why these colors?

Here's a breakdown of the individual colors in the rainbow, with the hex and RGB value underneath each color:

Here are the hex values - notice the pattern:

That's the math of it. In hex values, each character is an color value. Red. Green. Blue. In that order.

0 = No color
8 = Half-Color
F = Full Color

And so it steps through, color to color, smoothly. Rainbow.

The reason I did this is to see if it's possible for the drawing pad application to render any color possible. Dark green? Gray?

And what I learned is yes. From 0 to F, it can step through the full range.

This is like window shopping. So close to a palette that would allow me to get full art rendering.

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by Brett Rogers, 11/21/2008 8:25:39 PM
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Tiger

Drawn on my Verizon LG Dare Drawing Pad:

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ETC: Yesterday, my 9-year-old son, Jacob, drew a picture of himself with my cell phone's headset on.

He loves using my phone to draw pictures :)

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by Brett Rogers, 11/17/2008 1:40:37 PM
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Doodles

Drawn on my Verizon LG Dare Drawing Pad:

One of the things I like about drawing on my phone is that it gives me the opportunity to practice my art anytime I like.

This is a woman I saw in a magazine.

This is a man who was seated in the airplane one row up and across the aisle from me when I flew to Vegas last month.

To me, art is: the practice of seeing things as they really are and communicating that to others in an attractive way. Which is why I think that there should be an art class devoted to teaching business people how to paint and draw.

Take the woman I drew above: in as few lines as possible, how do I communicate her warmth?

The man: how do I give the sense of him to you, the viewer?

Business people need to see facts all of the time. Instead of making assumptions, how do you break those down and try to see it as though for the first time?

I'll teach that class someday, I think. It's something I deeply believe in.

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by Brett Rogers, 11/16/2008 11:05:00 AM
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Ship

Drawn on my Verizon LG Dare Drawing Pad:

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by Brett Rogers, 11/12/2008 11:59:06 PM
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Hoss' Art

Again, for a guy who swears that he's not an artist, he's doing just fine.

Drawn on Hoss' Verizon LG Dare Drawing Pad:

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by Brett Rogers, 11/11/2008 11:58:41 PM
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Over 5,000

Just over two months ago, I created and posted this video on YouTube:

It gets about 100 views a day and is now over 5,000 views.

Interestingly, I also got some other news today that requires me to travel next week. More about that later...

Life is pretty cool.

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by Brett Rogers, 11/11/2008 7:34:40 PM
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Galaxy

Drawn on my Verizon LG Dare Drawing Pad:

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by Brett Rogers, 11/10/2008 12:51:43 PM
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Spock

Drawn on my Verizon LG Dare Drawing Pad:

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by Brett Rogers, 11/9/2008 1:47:52 PM
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Cellist

Drawn on my Verizon LG Dare Drawing Pad:

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by Brett Rogers, 11/5/2008 1:40:05 AM
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Calf

Drawn on my Verizon LG Dare Drawing Pad:

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by Brett Rogers, 11/4/2008 8:06:49 AM
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