Whitmire tells the Rocketship story
with characteristic color and an eye toward its broader implications for American education.
Each assistant
makes characteristic color choices and juxtapositions, causing the spot paintings, as executed, to deviate from true randomness, from maximum entropy: «This crimson spot tells me Joe the Assistant made this painting; I can assume there will be no pale pink spots in this painting, because Joe does not use that color.»
Inspired by Louisana's popular Cajun dish of «dirty» rice, this variation has all the potency and flavor you could expect but omits the pork and the chicken livers, which traditionally give the dish
its characteristic color.
The necessary electromagnetic resonances arise from the presence in the compound of chromophores, which give the molecule
a characteristic color.
It is the bilirubin that gives bile
its characteristic color.
Characteristic colors are white with black or liver; other colors may appear but are not preferred.
Now, however, the annoying Rabbids have taken over and painted the area with
their characteristic color of chaos.
Each painting has a shorthand title of a year, for instance, ««93», denoting the artist's personal, intuitive vision of
the characteristic colors of that year in history, precise or not.