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Lighting can play a good part in this as well. The human eye evolved to perceive colors the best at the sun's color temperature. Higher temperatures like those of the CFL lamps and cool white LE Ds that make up interior lighting in most places tend to wash out the color of the objects they illuminate.

This is not really correct. A vast majority of light sources used in everyday life actually have color temperature lower than sunlight (which is around 5800K when talking about direct sunlight at noon). Most of the light sources with color temperature close to the color temperature of sunlight tend to be used for specialized purposes, eg. filming or photography. The reason for this is that we're used to very warm artificial lighting, so the actual color temperature of the majority of indoor lighting is in fact very warm, around 2700K. The "blueish" bulbs that are advertised as "bright white" or "daylight" are still only between 3500-4500K mostly, and yet we tend to perceive them as very blue and rooms that use them can look cold, sterile and uninviting to us. Also, blue light interferes with our production of melatonin, leading to sleep issues, so that's also a reason why you don't really want to use those "daylight" bulbs at home in the evenings - they produce a fair amount of blue light to achieve their colder color temperature.

The reason colors do look washed out under artificial lighting and under CFL lighting especially has more to do with the fact that the spectrum of the light of such bulbs is usually not continuous like it is with sunlight, but only has a few peaks in various bands - it adds up to a somewhat "white" light overall, but with very different color response than sunlight. If you are a photographer, you might be familiar with how much of a pain shooting under CFL ligthing can be precisely for this reason.

LED lights are somewhat better at this as they provide a more continuous spectrum of light, and it's something that's constantly being improved, thankfully.

The movie "Ronin" was made with very muted colours throughout.

Removed these:

* Deus Ex has a colour scheme where the primary color on the palette to denote high technology is blue.

* Deus Ex Human Revolution's pre-release screen shots, trailers and gameplay footage all show the game world absolutely flooded with either nauseating green or nauseating yellow. Contrast Deus Ex.

Neither example fits here; they're both cases of Square Peg Round Trope.

This article is about games which have desaturated colors to promote realism. Both of these games feature saturated colors. The fact that Human Revolution has a limited palette is not this trope.

On top of that, the second example is clearly Complaining About Shows That Troper Doesn't Like.

The Matrix example is an inversion since the green tint shows that it's not the real world.

Is this becoming a Dead Horse Trope? It was popular before, but now nearly every series, (including the Trope Codifier, Gears of War) is subverting and lampshading it.

Gears of War as a possible subversion? Really? I'm too tired right now to tell if my judgment is impaired, but if it still seems absurd in the morning I'm removing it.

Thank you, whoever edited the article to be about interreflection.

Doesn't zero punct. say something about this in one of his episodes? He said something about a game having "every color of the dirt spectrum".

Just noticed that large chunk of this article have disappeared. The one responsible claims they belong to Mood Lighting. This raises the following questions:

• 1) Is this trope actually supposed to apply only to video games?
• 2) If no to 1), did the one responsible for the deletion actually checked individually all the examples he removed to be sure that none of them actually applied to Real Is Brown?
• 3) Why didn't he move those examples to Mood Lighting instead of just deleting dozens of contributions (not that this cannot be undone, but it would have been better form, if anything)?

I would strongly object to 1), there are clear cases in films where Real Is Brown seemed to be invoked; for instance David Fincher frequently abuses of this, and this cannot be considered just Mood Lighting, given that he uses it in every of his films, even when this adds nothing to story or atmosphere; see for instance the trailer for the upcoming "The Social Network" film)—in this case it's clearly done to look more real.

Now, why am I linked in this trope? I call shenanigans!

I don't do brown comics! The whole point of my "Never use primary colors" demonstration is that you should learn to MIX your colors. In other words, you never use a red color that is valued at (255,0,0), because doing so results in gaudy colors that clash with one another and make your eyes bleed. By mixing them, you can create better color balance. I would never say to intentionally make the comic drab. That's not the point I was making!

Desaturation is not the same as being drab. You can make colors complement each other a lot better by desaturating them, and I think I've more than demonstrated this in The Crossoverlord. No bullshit. Here's the most drab page I did in the entire archive.

http://www.drunkduck.com/Crossoverlord/index.php?p=634230

Where's the brown, guys? Where's the whole Lord Of The Rings bullshit? There is none. It's all subtle blues and purples with some yellow highlighting, and it makes the colorful elements pop.

I call bullshit, and I think the link to my page, as much as I appreciate the exposure, should be removed.

• "BRIGHT COLORS ARE SPARINGLY DISTRIBUTED THROUGHOUT THE NATURAL WORLD...WHILE THE MAIN MASSERS ARE MADE UP OF COOL GREENS, GRAYS, DRABS, AND BROWNS INTERMINGLED" Kinsett

What the hell is that?

I may be wrong here, but didn't this kind of thing sort of come up as the antithesis of the post-Quake2 era? You know, when everything-coloured lighting was all the rage and anyone with a level editor would churn out maps that looked like a Technicolor vomit at a glow stick lovers' rave?