I clearly remember the moment when my passion for color tipped over into full on nerd-dom. I was neck deep in the library stacks at Hartwick College, my alma mater, poking through some old books with the desperate hope that one would give me the glimmer of inspiration required to figure out what the heck I was going to write my Art History thesis about. Finally I stumbled across a slim volume titled something like, "the 15 causes of color in nature". I brought it back to my c