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Everyone sees the Google logo on a daily basis, but how many actually remember what it looks like? Which one of these logos below is the real one? Once you have read through to the bottom, you will be able to easily answer this question. I will walk through the thought process I initially took to determine the pattern; you may also skip to the last section to view the end result.
At first glance, the order of the colors may appear random, perhaps derived by trial and error until an aesthetic combination was found. However, a deeper analysis reveals that there is a simple pattern to the order of colors. When I initially analyzed the patterns, I made the observations listed below. I will omit observations which did not pertain to the final solution.
Before continuing this process, I will need to introduce a basic concept regarding colors.
When performing the analysis, I already had an understanding of primary colors and pixel colors. A brief introduction to these concepts are listed below:
Now that we have covered the definitions of primary and pixel colors, we can continue our analysis. After the observations listed above, I noticed that the letters of the logo can be split into two seperate sections:
We now have a partial ordering: we know that yellow can't appear in the 4th, 5th, or 6th letter, and green can't appear in the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd letter. We also know that each color can only appear at most once per 3 letter section. The last observation, which will complete our analysis, is as follows: within each section, the order of colors appear in alphabetical order.
Instead of using rote memorization to memorize the order of colors, we can remember the pattern in which the colors are derived:
If we create the list of colors from that pattern, we will get: blue, red, yellow, blue, green, red. Anytime we wish to recall the colors, we can recall the pattern and re-construct the list from there, a process which is much easier than memorizing the colors directly.
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