Web Safe (video colourscape)

six channel video installation 2008 ( documentation from Helsinki Kunsthalle 2008. I still image and a full loop of the video colourscape)

Web Safe (video colourscape), is the final stage of a series of works based  on the Web Safe colour palette.

The endless colourscape used in my Internet based version of Web Safe got first re-mixed then off -lined and finally transferred to videotape. The loop was reproduced in six speeds (each colour was presented  for a duration of 1 sec, 2 sec, 3 sec , 4 sec, 5 sec and 6 sec) and the positioning of the 6 loops in the installation was done randomly by using a dice.

The resulting is a endless abstract colourscape.

Reference:

Web-Safe Colour Scape (2000).

Web-Safe Colour Scape consists of 212 web pages which open one after an other in a endless loop.  The pages  don't contain any images or text. The only content is the background colour which is defined in the source code of each page and created by the web browser as the pages are viewed.

Issues such as collective decisions on how colours should be viewed, copyright, technological guidance and censorship were the starting points for making Web Safe Colour Scape.


WEB SAFE - Wikipedia 2007

Another set of 216 color values is commonly considered to be the "web-safe" color palette, developed at a time when many computer displays were only capable of displaying 256 colors. A set of colors was needed that could be shown without dithering on 256-color displays; the number 216 was chosen partly because computer operating systems customarily reserved sixteen to twenty colors for their own use; it was also selected because it allows exactly six shades each of red, green, and blue (6 × 6 × 6 = 216).

The list of colors is often presented as if it has special properties that render them immune to dithering. In fact, on 256-color displays applications can set a palette of any selection of colors that they choose, dithering the rest. These colors were chosen specifically because they matched the palettes selected by the then leading browser applications. Fortunately, there were not radically different palettes in use in different popular browsers.

"Web-safe" colors had a flaw in that, on systems such as X11 where the palette is shared between applications, smaller color cubes (5x5x5 or 4x4x4) were often allocated by browsers — thus, the "web safe" colors would actually dither on such systems. Better results were obtained by providing an image with a larger range of colors and allowing the browser to quantize the color space if needed, rather than suffer the quality loss of a double quantization.

By the early years of the 21st century, driven by the needs of video games and digital photos, personal computers typically had at least 16-bit color and usually 24-bit (truecolor). Even mobile devices had at least 16-bit color, driven by the inclusion of cameras on cellphones. The use of "web-safe" colors fell into disuse, but persisted as folklore.

The "web-safe" colors do not have names, but each can be specified by an RGB triplet. In the table below, a three-digit number is used as a shorthand notation for the six-digit hexadecimal numerals above. (The Cascading Style Sheets language supports both three- and six-digit numerals.) The digit "3" is equivalent to the hexadecimal numeral "33"; "C" is equivalent to "CC". For example, "F63" in the table below is equivalent to "#FF6633" in the system used previously.


- Web Safe Colour Scape,  2000

In Web Safe Colour Scape the colours 00 33 FF, 33 00 FF, 00 FF 33 and 33 FF 00 are excluded from the 216 colour palette as testing reveals that Internet Explorer does not correctly render them on Windows (according to: Macromedia Using Dreamweaver 2 first edition 1998)

The web-safe colour palette used in WEB-SAFE produces fairly consistent results on different platforms and with different browsers.  The viewing experience may in some cases slightly vary according to the monitor settings, monitor model, lighting conditions, the viewers vision and the way the viewer understands colours.


- Content Rating Association RSACI,  2000

The contents of WEB-SAFE heve been tested to meet the standards of  Internet Content Rating Association RSACI level 0 and can be viewed by minors without parental guidance.

- Dice Wikipedia 2009

A die (plural dice, from Old French dé, from Latin datum "something given or played"[1]) is a small polyhedral object, usually cubic, used for generating random numbers or other symbols. This makes dice suitable as gambling devices, especially for craps or sic bo, or for use in non-gambling tabletop games.
A traditional die is a cube (often with corners slightly rounded), marked on each of its six faces with a different number of circular patches or pits called pips. All of these pips have the same appearance within a pair, or larger set of dice, and are sized for ease of recognizing the pattern formed by the pips on a face. The design as a whole is aimed at each die providing one randomly determined integer, in the range from one to six, with each of those values being equally likely.
More generally, a variety of analogous devices are often described as dice, but necessarily in a context, or with a word or two preceding "die" or "dice", that avoids the assumption that traditional dice are intended. Such specialized dice may have cubical or other polyhedral shapes, with faces marked with various collections of symbols, and be used to produce other random results than one through six. There are also "loaded" or "crooked" dice (especially otherwise traditional ones), meant to produce skewed or even predictable results, for purposes of deception or amusement.


- Copyright

The WEB-SAFE may not be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical including down loading, print-out, photocopying, recording or by on-line access or any information storage and retrieval system without permission in writing from copyright holder.

All rights reserved. © Juha van Ingen 2000 -