Why tournament blue?
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Does green cause less eye-strain?
An answerer at Quora claims: Colour vision is a result of cone cells. People with normal vision have 3 cone cell types: red, green blue. Of the 6-7million you have, 45% are green. Therefore, your
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What color is easier on the eyes?
We see green with ease because of how light reaches our eyes; the human eye translates waves of light into color.
Why we all need green in our lives
Green, the combination of blue and yellow, can be seen everywhere and in countless shades. But its role in your life is much bigger than you may realize.
Some scientists and researchers also believe that because our eyes are at the peak of their perception to detect the wavelengths corresponding with the color green, the shade may calm us down.
With less strain to perceive the colors, our nervous system can relax when perceiving the tone.
This sedative quality of green may explain why there is so much of it in hospitals, schools and work environments. Historically, actors and actresses would recess to green rooms after so much time looking into bright lights on stage, though modern “green rooms” are rarely painted green.
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I tried to read that but I have been fighting a winter storm for a couple of days and have not slept much. A few of the words in that link caused eye strain and hurt my noggen. I will check it out tomorrowtime.Does green cause less eye-strain?
An answerer at Quora claims: Colour vision is a result of cone cells. People with normal vision have 3 cone cell types: red, green blue. Of the 6-7million you have, 45% are green. Therefore, your
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I always liked and used the gold (not tan) simonis cloth on my Gold Crown lll at home.
That's always been my favorite and the easiest on my eyes, it seemed to make the balls stand out more clear as well. I wanted to use it on the tables at our family owned room but got outvoted for the traditional green.
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That's always been my favorite and the easiest on my eyes, it seemed to make the balls stand out more clear as well. I wanted to use it on the tables at our family owned room but got outvoted for the traditional green.
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Tournament blue is by far the most popular choice for tables now. Blue is the new green. I vastly prefer the look.
Tan does not enough contrast with the ball edges for me. I prefer a darker color, although the advantage of tan chalk is quite good.I always liked and used the gold simonis cloth on my Gold Crown lll at home.
That's always been my favorite and the easiest on my eyes, it seemed to make the balls stand out more clear as well. I wanted to use it on the tables at our family owned room but got outvoted for the traditional green.
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Green rules!I always liked and used the gold simonis cloth on my Gold Crown lll at home.
That's always been my favorite and the easiest on my eyes, it seemed to make the balls stand out more clear as well. I wanted to use it on the tables at our family owned room but got outvoted for the traditional green.
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The biggest issue with tan/camel cloth in a pool room is too many people with their own personal blue chalk use it on the tan/camel cloth. The blue chalk marks look awful in no time, and are very hard to remove. Otherwise, it may have been my favorite color to play on.
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Give me green. It was green forever until television/video pushed blue and the lemmings piled on.
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I’m an old guy and have played on green most of my life. But prefer the blue…
An abomination!
Blue is a bit lighter color than tournament green, so the colors of the balls show up a bit better. That is, if you focus on a spot on the object ball.
Me, makes no difference. I picture a path to the object ball, and a path to the pocket. So the color of the cloth doesn't really matter.
All the best,
WW
Me, makes no difference. I picture a path to the object ball, and a path to the pocket. So the color of the cloth doesn't really matter.
All the best,
WW
Tournament Blue is fine, and the modern Aramith TV and Black sets look best on the blue, but I prefer the classic green cloth and ball colors.
Alternate shades of green and blue are ok, camel/tan comes in 3rd, gray 4th.
Red, orange, black, purple, pink, and anything with patterns is brutal. These must be produced strictly for high-end applications and interior designers.
Alternate shades of green and blue are ok, camel/tan comes in 3rd, gray 4th.
Red, orange, black, purple, pink, and anything with patterns is brutal. These must be produced strictly for high-end applications and interior designers.
Apparently started due to the way color TV's filtered the Simonis tournament green that Diamond used on their tournament tables .. the green showed as a light blue to TV viewers .. and Diamond started to have people requesting the "blue" cloth. So they worked with Simonis to produce it .. and it is as easy on the eyes to play on as green .. and has become a very popular cloth .. all due to TV. Research was done on various colors to determine the optimal colors for minimizing eye strain and reducing shadows. Apparently the light grey is one of the best, with pale gold, tournament blue, and tournament green right behind. Was interesting to read that Willy Mosconi would ONLY play on light gold covered tables later in his career due to him being able to see the balls better on that color cloth.
From what I understand, if you take a black and white photograph of Tournament Blue and Tournament Green, they will be the exact same shade. Ability to see balls clearer wouldn't be so much of a factor because of this. I replaced my green cloth last year with Simonis 860 and I much prefer the blue cloth (my opinion). An added bonus is the absence of chalk marks even though I am meticulous about keeping my cloth clean.
Greg Sullivan from Diamond told me he actually paid a company to look into the best color for cloth and they came up with blue for several reasons from eyesight to TV. From there he had Simonis make and the rest is history.
I used to install tables many moons ago and I put in everything from red, black to purple. The one oddity that stuck with me was orange. It wasn’t bad to play on actually the few game i played. Not sure how it would hold up and how you would like it over time. I still love green for a pool table but I am old school. The club and my home table are blue just because that is now the norm.