Your colour can be viewed at anytime on your unique URL www.ownacolour.com/#cacaca
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At last I have got round to owning a UNICEF colour on behalf of CAS. The above is from the confirmation e-mail. You can see the colour, perhaps best by clicking on the link in my previous post - then select 'Find a colour' on the left, and again on the left in the Colour Dropper overwrite the HEX # with cacaca, then VIEW (or the grey vertical rectangle above VIEW if nothing happens).
You can help UNICEF by spreading the news on your Facebook or Twitter.
Or you could purchase another colour - I have tried to ensure I have not taken unique ownership of 'asperatus'! But you might go for green flash or orange something or whatever.
If you pay by SMS you are limited to £1, £2, or £3. By card they offer up to £20 then 'other'. I do not know about non-sterling currencies.
HAPPY NEW YEAR to one and all.
N.B. Chambers describes 'griseous' as grey, blue-grey or pearl-grey. One also has to choose a single word description, so I chose CLOUDH (perhaps Rich McBodhi can advise how I might pronounce it). It tickled me that H being the 8th letter of the alphabet, I am next to Cloud 9.
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Amazing! I never heard of such a color: cacaca. Am a bit confused, though. When I typed it into the search bar (or whatever it's called) I got a whole array of greys with some mauve mixed in. Is cacaca this combination, or is it one specific triangle on that page?
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Noctilucy, you are almost there. Having overwritten the HEX # with cacaca, I suspect if you just click VIEW you get the array of triangular greys you describe. It will also throw up the grey vertical rectangle just above VIEW; click again on this grey rectangle and you get the treasure.
Some Explanation
You will not have heard of a colour Asperatus CACACA because I only just invented it. I wanted to publicise 'asperatus', but so as not to prevent any other cloudspotter doing likewise (and obviously not to pretend I invented 'asperatus'). If I had chosen 'Asperatus grey' no-one else could have (and there are many greys).
I needed to fit the UNICEF technique which numbers each of their 16m colours two ways (1) by a 6 figure HEXadecimal (*) number, (2) by Red, Green, Blue. All the simple, obvious HEX numbers (e.g. 111111, 555555) were already taken. So I hit upon CA for Cloud Appreciation, hence the HEX # cacaca - it still needed a new name so I chose 'Asperatus CACACA' which is unique whilst not constraining anyone else.
(*) Hexadecimal is a number system to the base of 16 rather than the base 10 we are used to; thus it goes 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, a, b, c, d, e, f.
Luckily 'C' and 'A' are included, but 'S' is not. So CAS is not a valid HEX # - I could not have chosen 'cascas'. You will note on the UNICEF site that the equivalent to HEX # cacaca is Red 202, Green 202, Blue 202 but I could not see how to exploit that.
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Got it that time, a faintly bluish grey. (My American laptop disputes the spelling of gray as grey, but I've always preferred it for some reason.) The rest of your explanation was a bit beyond my math skills, but fascinating nonetheless.
Here's wishing a very happy new year to you and all of the CAS members.
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