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[λ the β-Redex Reducer]

Those are the colors we ordered https://www.pantone.com/color-finde...GHSFkclHtbCxVCUF51B3KjqxRWZuET324f6yhflDxhcyk , https://www.pantone.com/color-finde...vzwDwndQC0hIIyKN9xCr80c8dyr91Saao_J8g8dzoYe0g and https://www.pantone.com/color-finde...vzwDwndQC0hIIyKN9xCr80c8dyr91Saao_J8g8dzoYe0g

Glad to see that I am not going to be stuck with red. I find red ugly (unpopular opinion I know). The blue and gray look nice.

Of corse i can produce Transparent ones too if there is an order cause changing colors on a machine is expensive and takes time to clean.

If the transparent does not look weird with background lighting or something like that then I would definitely consider it. I remember back in the day that I loved the cartridge of Pokemon Crystal because it was transparent and it looked really cool.

Or maybe something like this: https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/attachments/pyra-blue-png.29169/ .That looks really good.

 

[docbroke]

Can we combine transparent outer case with grey inner part (one that holds keyboard), to avoid lighting issues.

 

[pmprog]

Those are the colors we ordered https://www.pantone.com/color-finder/7600-C

I'm a little surprised at that 7600C colour, not quite as red as I was expecting to see selected; but I guess you could see it in the physical plastic state, rather than on an LCD display?

 

[Djoga'Ro]

I'm a little surprised at that 7600C colour, not quite as red as I was expecting to see selected; but I guess you could see it in the physical plastic state, rather than on an LCD display?

I'd say it looks brown.

 

[ClockworkCoder]

Looks like a very similar colour to one of the shades at the top of this website. Seems pretty sppropriate to me.

 

[pmprog]

Looks like a very similar colour to one of the shades at the top of this website. Seems pretty sppropriate to me.

Doesn't look that similar here... but that's why I mentioned about looking at the physical plastic over an LCD display - as I know colours can also look a little different on LCDs.

Particularly the two displays on my office desk - a 255,255,255 white don't look exactly the same, despite the fact that the montiors are the same make and model, and as far as I can tell, the settings are the same too.

 

[ClockworkCoder]

Doesn't look that similar here... but that's why I mentioned about looking at the physical plastic over an LCD display - as I know colours can also look a little different on
LCDs.

Yeah, I also mentioned the same issue in my previous comment re calibration (or lack thereof). Unfortunately there is simply no way around that issue short of actually seeing the final product in person.

I'd be content with some feedback from lucky early recipients for a little while though

 

[Silent-Hunter]

I like all three of those colors, but yes, the first one looks brown to me.

 

[ible]

With ED here we choose some Dark Red Color , Dark Blue and Dark Grey that we had order Samples from Plastika Kritis S.A. Of corse i can produce Transparent ones too if there is an order cause changing colors on a machine is expensive and takes time to clean.

in the past, some people on these forums have expressed willingness to take mixed-color cases (e.g. the "bad ones" between one color and the next). if they are structurally fine, they might even be collector's items . do you typically run the system in the same way (i.e. with all the same parameters) so that the mixed color cases turn out ok but just weird colors, or do you try and flush the system faster with some other parameters?

 

[Grench]

Those are the colors we ordered https://www.pantone.com/color-finde...GHSFkclHtbCxVCUF51B3KjqxRWZuET324f6yhflDxhcyk , https://www.pantone.com/color-finde...vzwDwndQC0hIIyKN9xCr80c8dyr91Saao_J8g8dzoYe0g and https://www.pantone.com/color-finde...vzwDwndQC0hIIyKN9xCr80c8dyr91Saao_J8g8dzoYe0g

A curiosity I had about the plastics process...

If you were to take a bunch of random colored leftover pellets, mix them up (randomize) then inject the result through the machine into the mold, would the resulting plastic piece be a crazy pattern of colors or would it all just blend down to grey (or whatever the norm of the inputs)?

 

[EvilDragon]

It would blend down to black / grey.

These mixtures only work if you have multiple injection points with multiple feeders.

 

[Pyramancer]

I'd say it looks brown.

It's definitely brown on my display. (But then when I bought this laptop I had to settle for a poor display and poor battery life in order to afford the processing power, RAM, and storage I needed, so I know the colours it produces are extremely unreliable.)

I going to go down to the local print shop and see if they have Pantone colour swatches that I can look at.

 

[Silent-Hunter]

It's brown on both my phone and the MicroPC.

 

[levi]

It looks a rusty brown to me and therefore significantly towards the red end of brown. I'm rather a fan of the blue though myself, reminds me of the blue Pandora ED painted. Like the red, I'd prefer to see a photo of the unit produced in that colour before settling of course.

 

[fusion_power]

It's a darker redish/orange tone, not really that rusty. I have a propper calibrated screen and a dark background browser plugin. try to look at the colour without any white surrounding it. It's not as red as the website tone though.

 

[Grench]

It is amazing what a difference in lighting and background can do to a digital camera's sense of color. I -think- that what we see in the above pictures that we're all assuming are two different cases (one lilac, one gray) in different colors are actually the same case pictured under different lighting conditions. When I put in a picture where it looks lilac and asked what color it was, you said it was middle-dark grey and that it was bright due to the flash - to which I initially thought, he must mean the other (grey) one.

Looking closely at:
https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/attachments/dscf4106-jpg.32672/
https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/attachments/dsc03639-jpg.32657/

About 2/3 the way left to right over the top edge of the screen there is a stray hair or small crack or something caught.
Both picture's screens have the same fingerprint smudges and placements.
Both have the exact same heat/shrink marks in the exact same places.

I thought I might be able to use the sparkle patterns to fingerprint/map one to the other, but reflective bits could be on/off due to subtle picture and lighting angles, so those might not be reliable. Or it could just be the same screen loaded into two different colored plastics... ?

@EvilDragon - Are there two different cases pictured? Or is it the same case pictured under different lighting conditions? Also, you said in the video that this was a test run using the wrong plastic - so, what is the plastic used in these?

If the actual results from this run look like the medium grey photograph result - I'd be fine with that for my prototype. Neutral color, can fit into the office fine.
If the actual results from this run look like the My Little Pony light purple lilac photograph result - I can wait for another color. No way that would be accepted as anything but a 'toy'.

If those are both the same case, though, wow - that is one background and lighting sensitive camera. That or the Pyra is a chameleon and takes on the color of it's surroundings - grey on steel shavings - lilac on a dark cherry stained conference table.

So, was there one assembled Pyra used for all of the photographs or two?

Am I the only one who thought they were two entirely different cases/assemblies?

 

[EvilDragon]

The cases we produced all have the same color and we only assembled one for the test and for the pictures.

The difference is the flash: The reflection makes the case look a lot brighter than it actually is, and the automatic white balance changed the color a bit

 

[Blue Shadow]

@Grench: When you look at the video (btw I find videos often better to judge colors), ED is holding the "modern art pyra" in his hands at the beginning. Pretty sure that pattern could not be the same by accident, so it would be the same item as in the (blueish) picture. The upper part looks grey in the video, while the bottom one is blueish.

 

[Grench]

The cases we produced all have the same color and we only assembled one for the test and for the pictures.

The difference is the flash: The reflection makes the case look a lot brighter than it actually is, and the automatic white balance changed the color a bit

Then, now that we have that solved... With the right length black screws, a "granite grey" prototype case is fine with me. (Assuming you have enough as I am last in line.)

When do we get to see one with working shoulders light up?

 

[Blue Shadow]

btw.

grey on steel shavings.

Not sure about that, but I assumed that is a flokati rug.