What is the color of "performance" (as in
sports/competition/athletics)? I think it's
red. Do you agree? Why? And grids: they seem to be a common
performance shape. Yes? Or is it intersecticting lines that excite us?
Am I on to something?

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Clarification of Question by sailguy-ga on 26 Nov 2002 04:02 PST

Here are some google starts ...

http://webexhibits.org/pigments/indiv/color/reds2.html

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/colors1.html

Hi sailguy,
You're indeed right when you suggest that intersecting lines excite
us.  According to Sir Richard L. Gregory's primer on cognitive
sciences called Eye and Brain, the Western world "has visual
environments with many parallel lines, such as roads, and
right-angualr corners of buildings and furniture and so on."  These
are reliable perspective cues to distance.  Experiments have shown
that people who live in cultures with no lines, such as the Zulus,
respond differently to intersecting lines.
Regards,
secret901-ga

sailguy can't catch your question, but I strongly dispute that red is
the color for performance.  Color choice is a very personal thing and
it means different stuff to different people.  Red is commonly
associated with Danger and STOP (quite universal in this) so I don't
see why it relates to performance.
Not sure about the rest of the world, but my personal choice would be
GREEN for performance.

Grids?  When did grids become a common performance shape?  Most people
would probably refer to a chart that has a line that raises
continually as a better indicator of performance.  Grids is more
commonly referred to as a basis for structure (static) or framework
(background).