Part 13: Contest Challenge 02 Results
Still working on confirming a couple of things for the food contest, but the Tikal results are in!
First, I'd like to give a big thanks to ObscureReference for being my guinea pig. I gave him each of the 9 entries, and he gave me a color in return. I then compared this color to Tikal's and based my conclusions off of that. Trying to use the polygonal model as a color basis didn't work out due to lighting, etc. making it impossible to find a good color. However, there are actually only two pieces of official 2-D Tikal art. Averaging the two prominent colors gave me The Tikal Color. From there, I treated the RGB values of that color and the RGB values of the colors each essay provided as points in a 3D coordinate system, and computed the distance between the two points. The colors with the shortest distances are then arguably the most Tikal-like and are the winners of the challenge.
But it wouldn't be any fun if you didn't get to see all the colors, right? So here we go. Yeah yeah, I know all about why I shouldn't use a JPEG for text on colors, but the filesize savings were worth the sacrifice.
9th. Tuxedo Ted
![](entry-aa.jpg)
8th. Rich Uncle Chet
![](entry-bb.jpg)
7th. Not In Charleston
![](entry-ee.jpg)
6th. Atilla
![](entry-dd.jpg)
5th. Myrmadon
![](entry-gg.jpg)
4th. Cotton B. Gross
![](entry-cc.jpg)
3rd. Syrg
![](entry-ff.jpg)
2nd. RotationSurgeon
![](entry-hh.jpg)
1st. Comic
![](entry-ii.jpg)
To explain the big difference in 2nd vs. 1st: RotationSurgeon's color was in the direction of lighter than Tikal, while Comic's was in the direction of darker than Tikal, but just slightly less darker than RotationSurgeon's was lighter.