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73 relations: Additive color, Albert Henry Munsell, Astrophysics, Bauhaus, Black body, Blueshift, Charles Albert Keeley, Charles Hayter, CMYK color model, Color, Color Field, Color mixing, Color psychology, Color scheme, Color solid, Color space, Color temperature, Color Theory (musician), Color vision, Color wheel, Colorimetry, Complementary colors, Computer monitor, Cyan, Elsevier, Faber Birren, Focal Press, Gamut, Hexachrome, HSL and HSV, Ink, Isaac Newton, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johannes Itten, Josef Albers, Leon Battista Alberti, Leonardo da Vinci, Light, Magenta, Michel Eugène Chevreul, Movie theater, Munsell color system, Ogden Rood, Oil paint, On Vision and Colors, Opponent process, Oxford English Dictionary, Paint, Painting, Pantone, ..., Photographic printing, Primary color, Redshift, Relativistic Doppler effect, Retina, Reversal film, RGB color model, RYB color model, Secondary color, Spot color, Star, Subtractive color, Tertiary color, Theory of Colours, Theory of painting, Trichromacy, Vision science, Visual arts, Wassily Kandinsky, Watercolor painting, Wilhelm Ostwald, Yale University Press, Yellow. Expand index (23 more) »
Additive color
Additive color is a method to create color by mixing a number of different light colors, with shades of red, green, and blue being the most common primary colors used in additive color system.
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Albert Henry Munsell
Albert Henry Munsell (January 6, 1858 – June 28, 1918) was an American painter, teacher of art, and the inventor of the Munsell color system.
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Astrophysics
Astrophysics is the branch of astronomy that employs the principles of physics and chemistry "to ascertain the nature of the astronomical objects, rather than their positions or motions in space".
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Bauhaus
Staatliches Bauhaus, commonly known simply as Bauhaus, was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught.
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Black body
A black body is an idealized physical body that absorbs all incident electromagnetic radiation, regardless of frequency or angle of incidence.
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Blueshift
A blueshift is any decrease in wavelength, with a corresponding increase in frequency, of an electromagnetic wave; the opposite effect is referred to as redshift.
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Charles Albert Keeley
Charles Albert Keeley (1 December 1821 – 11 August 1889) was a British inventor, amateur scientist, entertainer and pioneering colour expert.
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Charles Hayter
Charles Hayter (24 February 1761 – 1 December 1835) was an English painter.
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CMYK color model
The CMYK color model (process color, four color) is a subtractive color model, used in color printing, and is also used to describe the printing process itself.
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Color
Color (American English) or colour (Commonwealth English) is the characteristic of human visual perception described through color categories, with names such as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, or purple.
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Color Field
Color Field painting is a style of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s.
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Color mixing
There are two types of color mixing: Additive and Subtractive.
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Color psychology
Color psychology is the study of hues as a determinant of human behavior.
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Color scheme
In color theory, a color scheme is the choice of colors used in design for a range of media.
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Color solid
A color solid is the three-dimensional representation of a color model, an analog of the two-dimensional color wheel.
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Color space
A color space is a specific organization of colors.
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Color temperature
The color temperature of a light source is the temperature of an ideal black-body radiator that radiates light of a color comparable to that of the light source.
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Color Theory (musician)
Color Theory is the electronic music project of American singer, keyboardist, and songwriter Brian Hazard.
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Color vision
Color vision is the ability of an organism or machine to distinguish objects based on the wavelengths (or frequencies) of the light they reflect, emit, or transmit.
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Color wheel
A color wheel or colour circle is an abstract illustrative organization of color hues around a circle, which shows the relationships between primary colors, secondary colors, tertiary colors etc.
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Colorimetry
Colorimetry is "the science and technology used to quantify and describe physically the human color perception." It is similar to spectrophotometry, but is distinguished by its interest in reducing spectra to the physical correlates of color perception, most often the CIE 1931 XYZ color space tristimulus values and related quantities.
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Complementary colors
Complementary colors are pairs of colors which, when combined, cancel each other out.
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Computer monitor
A computer monitor is an output device which displays information in pictorial form.
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Cyan
Cyan is a greenish-blue color.
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Elsevier
Elsevier is an information and analytics company and one of the world's major providers of scientific, technical, and medical information.
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Faber Birren
Faber Birren (11 September 1900 – 30 December 1988) was an American author and consultant on color and color theory.
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Focal Press
Focal Press is a publisher of media technology books and it is an imprint of Taylor & Francis.
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Gamut
In color reproduction, including computer graphics and photography, the gamut, or color gamut, is a certain complete subset of colors.
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Hexachrome
Hexachrome is a six-color printing process designed by Pantone Inc.
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HSL and HSV
HSL (hue, saturation, lightness) and HSV (hue, saturation, value) are two alternative representations of the RGB color model, designed in the 1970s by computer graphics researchers to more closely align with the way human vision perceives color-making attributes.
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Ink
Ink is a liquid or paste that contains pigments or dyes and is used to color a surface to produce an image, text, or design.
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Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English mathematician, astronomer, theologian, author and physicist (described in his own day as a "natural philosopher") who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time, and a key figure in the scientific revolution.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and statesman.
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Johannes Itten
Johannes Itten (11 November 1888 – 25 March 1967) was a Swiss expressionist painter, designer, teacher, writer and theorist associated with the Bauhaus (Staatliches Bauhaus) school.
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Josef Albers
Josef Albers (March 19, 1888March 25, 1976) was a German-born American artist and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of modern art education programs of the twentieth century.
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Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti (February 14, 1404 – April 25, 1472) was an Italian humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher and cryptographer; he epitomised the Renaissance Man.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 14522 May 1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance, whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.
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Light
Light is electromagnetic radiation within a certain portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
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Magenta
Magenta is a color that is variously defined as purplish-red, reddish-purple, purplish, or mauvish-crimson.
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Michel Eugène Chevreul
Michel Eugène Chevreul (31 August 1786 – 9 April 1889) was a French chemist whose work with fatty acids led to early applications in the fields of art and science.
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Movie theater
A movie theater/theatre (American English), cinema (British English) or cinema hall (Indian English) is a building that contains an auditorium for viewing films (also called movies) for entertainment.
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Munsell color system
In colorimetry, the Munsell color system is a color space that specifies colors based on three color dimensions: hue, value (lightness), and chroma (color purity).
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Ogden Rood
Ogden Nicholas Rood (3 February 1831 in Danbury, Connecticut – 12 November 1902 in Manhattan) was an American physicist best known for his work in color theory.
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Oil paint
Oil paint is a type of slow-drying paint that consists of particles of pigment suspended in a drying oil, commonly linseed oil.
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On Vision and Colors
On Vision and Colors (Ueber das Sehn und die Farben) is a treatise by Arthur Schopenhauer that was published in May 1816 when the author was 28 years old.
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Opponent process
The color opponent process is a color theory that states that the human visual system interprets information about color by processing signals from cones and rods in an antagonistic manner.
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Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the main historical dictionary of the English language, published by the Oxford University Press.
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Paint
Paint is any liquid, liquefiable, or mastic composition that, after application to a substrate in a thin layer, converts to a solid film.
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Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (support base).
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Pantone
Pantone Inc. is a U.S. corporation headquartered in Carlstadt, New Jersey.
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Photographic printing
Photographic printing is the process of producing a final image on paper for viewing, using chemically sensitized paper.
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Primary color
A set of primary colors is, most tangibly, a set of real colorants or colored lights that can be combined in varying amounts to produce a gamut of colors.
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Redshift
In physics, redshift happens when light or other electromagnetic radiation from an object is increased in wavelength, or shifted to the red end of the spectrum.
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Relativistic Doppler effect
The relativistic Doppler effect is the change in frequency (and wavelength) of light, caused by the relative motion of the source and the observer (as in the classical Doppler effect), when taking into account effects described by the special theory of relativity.
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Retina
The retina is the innermost, light-sensitive "coat", or layer, of shell tissue of the eye of most vertebrates and some molluscs.
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Reversal film
In photography, reversal film is a type of photographic film that produces a positive image on a transparent base.
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RGB color model
The RGB color model is an additive color model in which red, green and blue light are added together in various ways to reproduce a broad array of colors.
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RYB color model
RYB (an abbreviation of red–yellow–blue) is a historical set of colors used in subtractive color mixing and is one commonly used set of primary colors.
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Secondary color
A secondary color is a color made by mixing two primary colors in a given color space.
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Spot color
In offset printing, a spot color or solid color is any color generated by an ink (pure or mixed) that is printed using a single run, whereas a process color is produced by printing a series of dots of different colors.
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Star
A star is type of astronomical object consisting of a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by its own gravity.
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Subtractive color
A subtractive color model explains the mixing of a limited set of dyes, inks, paint pigments or natural colorants to create a wider range of colors, each the result of partially or completely subtracting (that is, absorbing) some wavelengths of light and not others.
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Tertiary color
A tertiary color is a color made by mixing full saturation of one primary color with half saturation of another primary color and none of a third primary color, in a given color space such as RGB, CMYK (more modern) or RYB (traditional).
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Theory of Colours
Theory of Colours (German: Zur Farbenlehre) is a book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe about the poet's views on the nature of colours and how these are perceived by humans.
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Theory of painting
The idea of founding a theory of painting after the model of music theory, was suggested by Goethe in 1807, and gained much regard among the avant-garde artists of the 1920s, the Weimar culture period, like Paul Klee.
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Trichromacy
Trichromacy or trichromatism is the possessing of three independent channels for conveying color information, derived from the three different types of cone cells in the eye.
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Vision science
Vision science is the scientific study of vision.
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Visual arts
The visual arts are art forms such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, photography, video, filmmaking, and architecture.
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Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (Vasily Vasilyevich Kandinsky) (– 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist.
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Watercolor painting
Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also aquarelle (French, diminutive of Latin aqua "water"), is a painting method in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-based solution.
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Wilhelm Ostwald
Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald (2 September 1853 – 4 April 1932) was a German chemist.
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Yale University Press
Yale University Press is a university press associated with Yale University.
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Yellow
Yellow is the color between orange and green on the spectrum of visible light.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_theory
