Mock Color Theory Flashcards
means anchoring the cover on upholstered furniture or mattress by sewing through the filler, often with buttons; arranged to form a pattern
Geoluhread
Most visible color under most conditions
White
Paint that turns the light around and send a large portion back in the same direction it came from
Retroreflective Paint
Uniform dark gray background that many people report seeing in absence of light
Eigengrau
To see everything in tinted blue
Cyanospia
Condition in which one sense is simultaneously as if by one or more additional senses such as light
Synesthesia
19th C French chemist who in studying the chemistry of dyeing a colour system that became the heart of pointillism and neo impressionism
Chevreul
Amount of light energy emitted or reflected from an object in a direction. Luminance is the only form of light we can see
Luminance
Authority of color, provider of color systems and leading technology for accurate communication of color
Pantone
Visual perceptual property corresponding in human to the categories called red, blue yellow
Color
Merging 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
Color Mixing
Lightness or Darkness of a hue or color
Value
State or process that occurs when no more of something can be absorbed, combined with or added
Chroma
Light originates from a single point and spreads outward in all directions
Directional Lighting
Light originates from a single point and spreads outward in a cone
Point Lighting
Represents an omni-directional fixed intensity and fixed color light source that affects all objects in the scene equally
Ambient Lighting
A non specific term that refers to an image continuing to appear in one’s vision after the exposure to the original image has ceased
Afterimage
Most physical color in spectrum
Red
A system for specifying colors arranged in three orderly scales of uniform visual steps according to hue, chroma and value developed in 1898.
Munsell System
wavelengths that are absorbed and reflected
Subtractive