Basic Color Physics
Basic Color Physics
Basic Color Physics/Color Interactions
Color Interactions
Color and Meaning...
100
Colors that cannot be broken down.
What is Primary Color?
100
A circular arrangement of the colors of the visible spectrum.
What is the Color Wheel?
100
Ground up color materials, such as powdered minerals, that are suspended in a medium such as oil or acrylic to make a point.
What is Pigments?
100
Color use variations of one color
What is Monochromatic?
100
Is the color that an object reflects in the real world.
What is Local Color?
200
Secondary Colors
What is Green, Orange and Purple?
200
A name of a color family or an area on the color spectrum
What is Hue?
200
An intensely colored compound that dissolves in a medium(usually water) and is absorbed by the material it touches.
What is Dye?
200
Employs several colors adjacent on the color wheel with harmonious effects
What is Analogous Color?
200
Aims to not represent reality but to provide unexpected sensation to enhance emotions.
What is Arbitrary Color?
300
Are produced when mixing Primary and Secondary Colors
What is Tertiary colors or Intermediates??
300
A series of progressively changing values from light to dark or dark to light.
What is Value Scale?
300
Is color with white added?. Is color with black added?. Is color with gray added.
What is Tint, Shade and Tone?
300
Are colors opposite each other on the color wheel-the blue and yellow energize each other.
What is Complementary Color?
300
Color that invokes cultural meanings, which can vary with time and place.
What is Symbolic colors?
400
Placement of different colors in such a way that the human eye mixes them to form new colors.
What is Optical Color Mixing?
400
The strength or weakness of a color.
What is Intensity, Saturation, Chroma?
400
Prevents any underlying color from showing through.
What is Opaque Color?
400
When compliments are placed next to appear more intense.
What is Simultaneous Contrast?
400
Spectral color: Color that becomes visible when white light passes through a prism: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.
What is Spectral Color?
500
is a sensation aroused in the observer’s mind as a response to the stimulus of the radiant energy of certain wavelengths acting on the eye’s mechanism
What is Color?
500
Blacks, whites and grays made form mixing black and white. In some media, earth tones are also considered to be neutrals.
What are Neutrals?
500
Allows underlying colors to show through and affect the top color
What is Transparent Color??
500
Optical effect that also relates to color interaction.
What is Afterimage?
500
Color Spectrum?Color that becomes visible when light passes through a prism.
What is Color Spectrum??
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