09COLOR

Question 1

A phenomenon of light and visual perception that may be described in terms of an individual’s perception of hue, saturation, and lightness fro objects and hue, saturation for light sources.

Answer 1

Color

Question 2

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source arranged in order of wavelengths, esp. the band of colors produced when sunlight is refracted and dispersed by a prism.

Answer 2

Spectrum

Question 3

Designating a color having lightness and yellow saturation.

Answer 3

Pale

Question 4

Designating a color having high lightness and strong saturation.

Answer 4

Brilliant

Question 5

Designating a color having low lightness and low saturation and reflecting only a small fraction of incident light.

Answer 5

Dark

Question 6

Designating a color having low lightness and strong saturation.

Answer 6

Deep

Question 7

One of three dimensions of color, the property of light by which the color of an object is classified as being red, yellow, green or blue or an intermediate between any contiguous pair of these colors.

Answer 7

Hue

Question 8

One of three dimensions of colors the purity or vividness of a hue.

Answer 8

Saturation / also called intensity

Question 9

The degree of which by a color differs from a grey of the same lightness and brightness corresponding to saturation of the perceived color.

Answer 9

Chroma

Question 10

The dimension of a color which is correlated with luminance and by which visual stimuli are ordered continuous from very dim to very bright.

Answer 10

Brightness ( Pure white - Maximum Brightness, Pure black-Minimum)

Question 11

The merging of juxtaposed dots or strokes of pure colors when seen from a distance to produce a hue often more luminous than that available from a premixed pigment.

Answer 11

Optical mixing

Question 12

The perceived color of an object, determined by wavelength of light reflected from its surface after selective absorption of other wavelengths of the incident light.

Answer 12

Reflected color