http://www.chm.davidson.edu/vce/coordchem/spectrum.jpg
Orange is near the middle of the visible spectrum.
I'm a little dubious about interpolating RGB values in that way -- I don't think averaging the numbers directly maps to the real world colour mixing you'd observe. I'd be interested in what the result is in Lab colour space.
The color of the Universe is white-green according to this analysis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_latte
Strange, I can't repeat the results on various folders I have.
I wrote a quick little (slow) Python script to compute a blended photo: https://gist.github.com/williame/92c7179d0963553d605f
If a folder has some theme, such as a folder I have of a boat regatta, I get an average picture that looks as you'd expect. So the code seems to average correctly.
If I run it on a bigger assemblage of photos, I tend to get a uniform gray though.
What am I doing wrong?
(I encourage you to try yourself!)
Here is a possible explanation: most digital camera makers tweak the color balance towards warm rather than cool or neutral because consumers prefer that.
looking at lists of RGB color names (e.g. http://cloford.com/resources/colours/500col.htm, http://www.keller.com/html-quickref/4a.html, http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X11_color_names) I notice that everything called 'orange' has a blue component of zero.
So, this claim would imply that the average color in nature doesn't have a blue component.
I guess the conclusion must be a) the sky is blue, and b) the majority of photos on the internet does not show sky.
I tried making a site to auto-blend images from Google Images…
https://github.com/derv82/ImageBlender
Last time I checked, it didn't work 100%, and was laggy.
But I learned bootstrap in the process, and some of the quirks associated with HTML5 canvas.
i m using a ruby gem, color, to mix, blend colors. There are so many parameters and methods you may use to blend 2 colors. So i think, you may attain not only orange but other colors too deoending on how you blend
When you blend in 100M 'spacer.gif' images, it can skew the result.
I wonder what the average color of all web pages is, and that of all smart phone app icons.
Edit: web pages should be weighted by page views, and app icons by downloads.
We need to throw out the spray tan selfie outliers.
I don't understand why it's presented as such a mystery? The average color obviously exists, and if I had guessed it would be a reddish/yellowish gray (due to the ubiquity of incandescent lighting, the non-UV-reflecting properties of surfaces etc).
I was hoping to also see a covariance matrix, or maybe even a 3d histogram of pixel colors on the web -- that would be interesting. This person is clearly not a data scientist :)
Well thanks a LOT, John Boehner.
It's the color of incandescent bulbs, fire, and other popular sources of light, reflected off of a large variety of surfaces.