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If the container on which the "color eye" or ratio stick is used isn't one with parallel sides, the correct color ratio cannot be achieved. Picture a funnel shaped container in which we'll mix some paint. The base color is white, and a bit of metallic cream is being added to give it a pearly metallic finish. If the funnel-shaped vessel is filled to the "correct" level with the white, then the ratio stick is adjusted and then the pearl metallic is added, you end up with too much metallic to white. There is a lot more volume of paint per millimeter increase in level at the top of the funnel than at the bottom. Compare that to a "regular" paint can. Its sides are parallel, so raising the level of the paint say, one centimeter, will take the same amount of paint whether the level is raised from 9 cm to 10 cm, or from 15 cm to 16 cm. See how that works? Another way to say that is that the volume of material (paint) contained between two given levels in a "regular" container will be the same at any level. The volume of material between the 3 cm and 5 cm levels will be identical to the volume of material between the 10 cm and 12 cm levels.

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