Week 3 Flashcards
What is color?
- Without light there is no color
- Objects don’t have color on their own
- Objects possess properties that reflect or
absorb light waves - Every living thing has its own internal pigmentation
-Each object reflects its own colour
and absorbs all others from the light
it is reflecting
What are the 2 types of cells of the eye in the retina?
- Cones
- Rods
What do rod cells do?
Record lightness and darkness (value?)
Has a blockey shape
What do cone cells do?
Distinguish between hues (colors)
Has a rounded, pointed shape
Is Color physical or sensory?
- Color is sensory, not physical, experience.
- It cannot be touched or felt, except psychologically
Who invented the color wheel?
- Sir Isaac Newton (law of gravity)
- in 1660s, experimented with glass prisms
- Sunlight is made up of colour
- Arranged the spectrum band into a circle to study the colours (colour wheel)
What are the 7 colors on Newton’s Optical spectrum?
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet
What is a color wheel?
visual method for charting colors for reference.
What are primary colors?
The most basic and purest of color, you can’t mix 2 colors to get them.
E.g. red, blue, yellow
primary + primary = ?
secondary
primary + secondary = ?
tertiary
What are the primary colors in light mixture (aka. additive)
red-orange, green, blue-violet (RGB)
What are the primary colors in pigment mixture (aka. subtractive)
red, blue, yellow (RBY)
What are the primary colors in offset printing?
cyan, magenta, yellow, black (CMYK)
Define Additive color
- Additive colour is viewed directly as light. White is produced when pixels are at maximum intensity and appear to overlap.
- when all the colors overlap you get white
- it’s RGB
- What we seen on a screen, graphics, pixels
Define Subtractive color
- Subtractive colour is viewed as a reflection off a surface. All light waves except those containing the colour we see are subtracted by a surface
- When colors overlapp you get black
- CYMK
Define Complimentary colors
Are opposite to each other
e.g. red and green
Define Analogue colors
Adjacent to each other
e.g. green-blue and blue
Define Discordant colors
farther apart but not directly across from one another. Kinda like Complimentary colors but not exactly.
e.g. purple and green
Qualities of complementary colors
- When placed next to each other, their intensity is heightened
- When mixed, they create a neutral gray
Qualities of analogue color
- Tend to create harmony
Qualities of discordant colors
- Tend to create instability and movement