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Notes on Color

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gamma rays-xrays-ultravioletrays-infraredrays-radar-radiowaves television-[a-c circuits]

the visible spectrum

violet[400]-blue-green[500]-yelloworange[600]-red[700]--wavelenght, millimicrons

 

 

 .Color is both art and science

.One of the most powerful tools of the designer

.We identify things being red, green, or orange are not innataely it.

.We preceive them as being that cause our brains interpret the message

.Viriations of the wavelenghts of the vibrations cause the veiwer to see different colors

.Longest wavelenght perceived as red, shortest violet

.There is no purple in thenatural spectrum of color               

.Darkness or out, is not black but more akin to deep gray space

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.Inorganic compounds are generally colorless in solution

.The hue of organic compounds can be changed by altering them chemically

.Colors seen in everyday life are caused by the partial absorption of white light

.When light is absorbed by a surface, we see black

 

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.Textur of a surface and the direction of a light source influence the way in which is obsorbed or reflected

.blue sky- the result is scattering of short-wavelenght blue components of sunlight by tiny particles suspended in the atmosphere

 

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.additive color is color in direct light

.subtraction color is color in relation to pigment

.Primaries in light[red-blue-green]

.Secondary[

6. red yellow blue

7. hue value texture

8. explain one.

9. complementary

10. secondary

 

 

 

Author: ALIYAH C PAYNE
Last modified: 8/21/2009 6:54 AM (EST)