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The one on the dulux ad seems quite hand held! |
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Called a visual or color comparator. |
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Baked at Lowe's and Home Depot. Used them many times - work very well. They'll even match a paint color from a cloth sample. |
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One difficulty with paint chips is that two colors may match under some lighting conditions but not others. A scanner could be constructed which doesn't just sample red/green/blue, but also many other wavelengths extending into the near UV. |
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They actually exist? Cool! Tells you how long it's been since I went paint shopping, doesn't it? |
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