{"id":139,"date":"2017-03-21T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T10:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purplemeanie.co.uk\/?p=139"},"modified":"2025-01-31T13:15:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T13:15:54","slug":"render-me-a-colour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/03\/21\/render-me-a-colour\/","title":{"rendered":"Render Me A Colour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Colour&#8230; the Biggy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It would almost be better if Henry Ford made Caterhams &#8211; any colour as long as its black.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are so many great Caterham colours. There&#8217;s the classic green, or the recently more popular Porsche blue. There&#8217;s yellows and reds. Decals. Single, double or triple stripes. The options are endless.<br>Initial thinking was, at least for me, centering around Purple. With the Purplemeanie domain it seemed obvious. Then there&#8217;s the question of flat, metallic or flake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How to try all this out?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well as luck would have it I&#8217;m a bit of a geek (apparently) and I spend quite a bit of my time tinkering with 3D models &#8211; on PC screens, as 3D prints and 2.5D CNC projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I needed was a 3D model of a Caterham that I could change the colour of and test out some paint options without having to actually paint a real car. I did a bit of Googling and found a reasonable 3D model of a SuperSprint I think it is. It&#8217;s not quite the right model and the exhaust is on the wrong side (yes I know). But its good enough for the task at hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were a few other possible 3D models doing the rounds but many had aero screens and I wanted to model things with a windscreen. This model also had doors (no hood) so that gave some further options for seeing what colours would look like with and without doors. The rest of the models I found were clearly not realistic enough or weren&#8217;t available in the right file format &#8211; I tried a couple of free (as in beer, not as in spirit) models first but they didn&#8217;t import well into my CAD tool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I bought the model and got a bunch of different formats. I think I paid $75 for here&#8230; [ link to model ]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tool I&#8217;ve been using recently is Autodesk&#8217;s Fusion 360. For those interested its a cross platform Qt based application that sits in Autodesks semi-pro\/pro-sumer space. It&#8217;s really well featured and semi-cloud based so I can work on it from various laptops or PC&#8217;s and offline. I like Fusion 360.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I imported an .obj format model in Fusion and as far as I can tell the import was good. It has some scaling issues but I&#8217;m not worried about that for this project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once I&#8217;d imported the model I could select each of the model components (they&#8217;re called bodies actually in Fusion for this particular import) and set their appearance. The models I&#8217;ve used for this site&#8217;s images are mainly set to have the following &#8220;appearance&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Shiny black plastic &#8211; wheel arches<\/li><li>Anodised black shiny aluminium &#8211; roll bar, suspension etc<\/li><li>Carbon fibre &#8211; dashboard<\/li><li>Black leather &#8211; seats<\/li><li>Painted metallic metal &#8211; body work<\/li><li>Stainless steel &#8211; exhaust<\/li><li>Satin Steel &#8211; some of the suspension&#8230; &#8216;cos it looked better that way<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>By setting a custom colour I&#8217;ve been able to play around with colour options. I tried some yellows, reds, blues etc. But there are dozens of images of those sorts of cars (all nice cars) on the web and I didn&#8217;t need to go to all this trouble just to check them out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I really wanted to do was try out some Purple variations and see what worked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fusion has a rendering engine &#8211; for those of you that are still following along but don&#8217;t know what one of those is&#8230; its a way for computers to be able to create lifelike images from a computer generated model or shape &#8211; in our case the model\/shape is a Caterham. Fusion does its rendering using a system called Ray Tracing, where the computer works out how rays of light travel from a light source, bounce off a coloured, textured object and then into a camera (all of this happening in the computer&#8217;s imagination \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, I played around with a bunch of options in Fusion, some of which are below. To my taste the dark metallic purple&#8217;s are what works best for me &#8211; each to their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another job sorted&#8230; at least until we change our minds!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sample Renderings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The images below were rendered using Fusion 360&#8217;s render tools. Lighting was set at 2000 lux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yellow (RGB=255,255,0)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"339\" data-attachment-id=\"200\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/03\/21\/render-me-a-colour\/r500-v8-yellow-scaled\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-yellow-scaled.png\" data-orig-size=\"1600,903\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"r500 v8 yellow scaled\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-yellow-scaled-600x339.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-yellow-scaled.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-yellow-scaled-600x339.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-yellow-scaled-600x339.png 600w, https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-yellow-scaled-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-yellow-scaled.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Riviera Blue (RGB=96,176,245)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"339\" data-attachment-id=\"199\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/03\/21\/render-me-a-colour\/r500-v8-riviera-scaled\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-riviera-scaled.png\" data-orig-size=\"1600,903\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"r500 v8 riviera scaled\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-riviera-scaled-600x339.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-riviera-scaled.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-riviera-scaled-600x339.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-riviera-scaled-600x339.png 600w, https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-riviera-scaled-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-riviera-scaled.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>British Racing Green (RGB=0,66,37)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"339\" data-attachment-id=\"198\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/03\/21\/render-me-a-colour\/r500-v8-racing-green-scaled\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-racing-green-scaled.png\" data-orig-size=\"1600,903\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"r500 v8 racing green scaled\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-racing-green-scaled-600x339.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-racing-green-scaled.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-racing-green-scaled-600x339.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-racing-green-scaled-600x339.png 600w, https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-racing-green-scaled-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-racing-green-scaled.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>PurpleMeanie (RGB=84,42,87)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"339\" data-attachment-id=\"197\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/03\/21\/render-me-a-colour\/r500-v8-purplemeanie-scaled\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-purplemeanie-scaled.png\" data-orig-size=\"1600,903\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"r500 v8 purplemeanie scaled\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-purplemeanie-scaled-600x339.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-purplemeanie-scaled.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-purplemeanie-scaled-600x339.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-purplemeanie-scaled-600x339.png 600w, https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-purplemeanie-scaled-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-purplemeanie-scaled.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Post Office Red (RGB=146,37,41). I&#8217;m not convinced this is the correct RGB for Post Office Red&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"339\" data-attachment-id=\"196\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/03\/21\/render-me-a-colour\/r500-v8-post-office-red-scaled\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-post-office-red-scaled.png\" data-orig-size=\"1600,903\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"r500 v8 post office red scaled\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-post-office-red-scaled-600x339.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-post-office-red-scaled.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-post-office-red-scaled-600x339.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-post-office-red-scaled-600x339.png 600w, https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-post-office-red-scaled-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-post-office-red-scaled.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Orange (RGB=221,81,0)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"339\" data-attachment-id=\"195\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/03\/21\/render-me-a-colour\/r500-v8-orange-scaled\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-orange-scaled.png\" data-orig-size=\"1600,903\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"r500 v8 orange scaled\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-orange-scaled-600x339.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-orange-scaled.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-orange-scaled-600x339.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-orange-scaled-600x339.png 600w, https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-orange-scaled-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/r500-v8-orange-scaled.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colour&#8230; the Biggy. It would almost be better if Henry Ford made Caterhams &#8211; any colour as long as its black. There are so many great Caterham colours. There&#8217;s the classic green, or the recently more popular Porsche blue. There&#8217;s yellows and reds. Decals. Single, double or triple stripes. The options are endless.Initial thinking was, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,51],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caterham-420r-build","category-caterham-blog","tag-prebulid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8yl38-2f","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":269,"url":"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/04\/16\/pre-build-update-3-specification-set-garage-finished-and-line-drawings\/","url_meta":{"origin":139,"position":0},"title":"Pre-build Update #3 \u2013 Specification Set, Garage Finished and Line Drawings","author":"John Martin","date":"April 16, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Purplemeanie Specification Set This week we had a couple of trips over to the Williams car showroom. The first trip was to confirm\u00a0the final specification of the car. We ended up with the following: 420 (2-litre Ford Duratec engine tuned to 210bhp)R-spec (track specification)Series 5 (Wider bodied SV)Lowered Floors (2\"\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Caterham 420R Build&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Caterham 420R Build","link":"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/index.php\/category\/caterham-blog\/caterham-420r-build\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/R500-Sketch-Front.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/R500-Sketch-Front.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/R500-Sketch-Front.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/R500-Sketch-Front.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/R500-Sketch-Front.png?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/R500-Sketch-Front.png?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":286,"url":"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/04\/30\/pre-build-update-4-the-colour-is-lotus-aubergine\/","url_meta":{"origin":139,"position":1},"title":"Pre-build Update #4 \u2013 The Colour is Lotus Aubergine","author":"John Martin","date":"April 30, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The Colour will be Lotus Aubergine Aubergine colour sample The colour is going to be Lotus Aubergine. There are many Purple Caterham Seven's around but I've not seen too many that look like they're Aubergine. Please leave me a comment if you know otherwise. 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