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72 relations: Absorption spectroscopy, Additive color, Afterimage, Al-Kindi, Albert Henry Munsell, Analogous colors, Aristotle, Avicenna, Bauhaus, Black body, Brightness, Charles Hayter, Chromium, CMYK color model, Color mixing, Color psychology, Color reproduction, Color scheme, Color science, Color space, Color symbolism, Color temperature, Color vision, Color wheel, Colorfulness, Complementary colors, Cone cell, Contrast (vision), Dye, Elsevier, Faber Birren, Focal Press, Gamut, Harmony (color), Hexachrome, Hue, Ibn al-Haytham, Ink, Isaac Newton, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johannes Itten, Josef Albers, Leon Battista Alberti, Leonardo da Vinci, Lightness, Mass media, Michel Eugène Chevreul, Monochrome, Munsell color system, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, ... Expand index (22 more) »
Absorption spectroscopy
Absorption spectroscopy is spectroscopy that involves techniques that measure the absorption of electromagnetic radiation, as a function of frequency or wavelength, due to its interaction with a sample.
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Additive color
Additive color or additive mixing is a property of a color model that predicts the appearance of colors made by coincident component lights, i.e. the perceived color can be predicted by summing the numeric representations of the component colors. Color theory and additive color are color and color space.
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Afterimage
An afterimage is an image that continues to appear in the eyes after a period of exposure to the original image.
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Al-Kindi
Abū Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ al-Kindī (أبو يوسف يعقوب بن إسحاق الصبّاح الكندي; Alkindus) was an Arab Muslim polymath active as a philosopher, mathematician, physician, and music theorist.
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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Analogous colors
In color theory, analogous colors are groups of colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. Color theory and analogous colors are color.
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Aristotle
Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath.
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Avicenna
Ibn Sina (translit; – 22 June 1037 CE), commonly known in the West as Avicenna, was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world, flourishing during the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various Iranian rulers.
Bauhaus
The Staatliches Bauhaus, commonly known as the, was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts.
Black body
A black body or blackbody is an idealized physical body that absorbs all incident electromagnetic radiation, regardless of frequency or angle of incidence.
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Brightness
Brightness is an attribute of visual perception in which a source appears to be radiating or reflecting light.
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Charles Hayter
Charles Hayter (24 February 1761 – 1 December 1835) was an English painter.
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Chromium
Chromium is a chemical element; it has symbol Cr and atomic number 24.
CMYK color model
The CMYK color model (also known as process color, or four color) is a subtractive color model, based on the CMY color model, used in color printing, and is also used to describe the printing process itself. Color theory and CMYK color model are color space.
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Color mixing
There are three types of color mixing models, depending on the relative brightness of the resultant mixture: additive, subtractive, and average. Color theory and color mixing are color.
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Color psychology
Color psychology is the study of colors and hues as a determinant of human behavior.
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Color reproduction
Color reproduction is an aspect of color science concerned with producing light spectra that evoke a desired color, either through additive (light emitting) or subtractive (surface color) models. Color theory and color reproduction are color.
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Color scheme
In color theory, a color scheme is a combination of 2 or more colors used in aesthetic or practical design. Color theory and color scheme are color.
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Color science
Color science is the scientific study of color including lighting and optics; measurement of light and color; the physiology, psychophysics, and modeling of color vision; and color reproduction. Color theory and color science are color.
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Color space
A color space is a specific organization of colors.
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Color symbolism
Color symbolism in art, literature, and anthropology refers to the use of color as a symbol in various cultures and in storytelling.
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Color temperature
Color temperature is a parameter describing the color of a visible light source by comparing it to the color of light emitted by an idealized opaque, non-reflective body. Color theory and color temperature are color.
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Color vision
Color vision, a feature of visual perception, is an ability to perceive differences between light composed of different frequencies independently of light intensity. Color theory and Color vision are color.
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Color wheel
A color wheel or color circle is an abstract illustrative organization of color hues around a circle, which shows the relationships between primary colors, secondary colors, tertiary colors etc. Color theory and color wheel are color.
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Colorfulness
Colorfulness, chroma and saturation are attributes of perceived color relating to chromatic intensity. Color theory and Colorfulness are color.
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Complementary colors
Complementary colors are pairs of colors which, when combined or mixed, cancel each other out (lose hue) by producing a grayscale color like white or black. Color theory and Complementary colors are color.
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Cone cell
Cone cells or cones are photoreceptor cells in the retinas of vertebrates' eyes.
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Contrast (vision)
Contrast is the difference in luminance or color that makes an object (or its representation in an image or display) visible against a background of different luminance or color.
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Dye
A dye is a colored substance that chemically bonds to the substrate to which it is being applied.
Elsevier
Elsevier is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content.
Faber Birren
Faber Birren (11 September 1900 – 30 December 1988) was an American writer and consultant on color and color theory.
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Focal Press
Focal Press is a publisher of creative and applied media books and it is an imprint of Routledge/Taylor & Francis.
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Gamut
In color reproduction and colorimetry, a gamut, or color gamut, is a convex set containing the colors that can be accurately represented, i.e. reproduced by an output device (e.g. printer or display) or measured by an input device (e.g. camera or visual system). Color theory and gamut are color and color space.
Harmony (color)
In color theory, color harmony refers to the property that certain aesthetically pleasing color combinations have. Color theory and harmony (color) are color.
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Hexachrome
Hexachrome is a discontinued six-color printing process designed by Pantone.
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Hue
In color theory, hue is one of the main properties (called color appearance parameters) of a color, defined technically in the CIECAM02 model as "the degree to which a stimulus can be described as similar to or different from stimuli that are described as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet," within certain theories of color vision. Color theory and hue are color.
Ibn al-Haytham
Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham (Latinized as Alhazen;; full name أبو علي، الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم) was a medieval mathematician, astronomer, and physicist of the Islamic Golden Age from present-day Iraq.
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Ink
Ink is a gel, sol, or solution that contains at least one colorant, such as a dye or pigment, and is used to color a surface to produce an image, text, or design.
Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath and writer, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language.
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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 who is considered one of the most influential 20th-century art teachers in the United States.
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Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti (14 February 1404 – 25 April 1472) was an Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer; he epitomised the nature of those identified now as polymaths.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 14522 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect.
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Lightness
Lightness is a visual perception of the luminance (L) of an object. Color theory and Lightness are color.
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Mass media
Mass media include the diverse arrays of media that reach a large audience via mass communication.
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Michel Eugène Chevreul
Michel Eugène Chevreul (31 August 1786 – 9 April 1889) was a French chemist whose work contributed to significant developments in science, medicine, and art.
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Monochrome
A monochrome or monochromatic image, object or palette is composed of one color (or values of one color). Color theory and monochrome are color.
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Munsell color system
In colorimetry, the Munsell color system is a color space that specifies colors based on three properties of color: hue (basic color), value (lightness), and chroma (color intensity). Color theory and Munsell color system are color space.
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Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Tusi (1201 – 1274), also known as Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (نصیر الدین الطوسی; نصیر الدین طوسی) or simply as (al-)Tusi, was a Persian polymath, architect, philosopher, physician, scientist, and theologian.
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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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On Colors
On Colors (Greek Περὶ χρωμάτων; Latin De Coloribus) is a treatise attributed to Aristotle but sometimes ascribed to Theophrastus or Strato. Color theory and on Colors are color.
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Opponent process
The opponent process is a color theory that states that the human visual system interprets information about color by processing signals from photoreceptor cells in an antagonistic manner.
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Opticks
Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light is a book by Isaac Newton that was published in English in 1704 (a scholarly Latin translation appeared in 1706).
Optics (Ptolemy)
Ptolemy's Optics is a 2nd-century book on geometrical optics, dealing with reflection, refraction, and colour.
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Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house.
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Paint
Paint is a material or mixture that, when applied to a solid material and allowed to dry, adds a film-like layer.
Pantone
Pantone LLC (stylized as PANTONE) is an American limited liability company headquartered in Carlstadt, New Jersey, and best known for its Pantone Matching System (PMS), a proprietary color space used in a variety of industries, notably graphic design, fashion design, product design, printing, and manufacturing and supporting the management of color from design to production, in physical and digital formats, among coated and uncoated materials, cotton, polyester, nylon and plastics.
Pigment
A pigment is a powder used to add color or change visual appearance.
Primary color
A set of primary colors or primary colours (see spelling differences) consists of colorants or colored lights that can be mixed in varying amounts to produce a gamut of colors. Color theory and primary color are color.
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Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy (Πτολεμαῖος,; Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD) was an Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine, Islamic, and Western European science.
Retina
The retina (or retinas) is the innermost, light-sensitive layer of tissue of the eye of most vertebrates and some molluscs.
RGB color model
The RGB color model is an additive color model in which the red, green and blue primary colors of light are added together in various ways to reproduce a broad array of colors. Color theory and RGB color model are color space.
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Robert Grosseteste
Robert Grosseteste (Robertus Grosseteste; 8 or 9 October 1253), also known as Robert Greathead or Robert of Lincoln, was an English statesman, scholastic philosopher, theologian, scientist and Bishop of Lincoln.
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RYB color model
RYB (an abbreviation of red–yellow–blue) is a subtractive color model used in art and applied design in which red, yellow, and blue pigments are considered primary colors. Color theory and RYB color model are color space.
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Spectrum
A spectrum (spectra or spectrums) is a condition that is not limited to a specific set of values but can vary, without gaps, across a continuum.
Star
A star is a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by self-gravity.
Subtractive color
Subtractive color or subtractive color mixing predicts the spectral power distribution of light after it passes through successive layers of partially absorbing media. Color theory and subtractive color are color and color space.
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Theory of Colours
Theory of Colours (Zur Farbenlehre) is a book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe about the poet's views on the nature of colours and how they are perceived by humans. Color theory and Theory of Colours are color.
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Trichromacy
Trichromacy or trichromatism is the possession of three independent channels for conveying color information, derived from the three different types of cone cells in the eye.
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Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (– 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist.
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Wilhelm Ostwald
Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald (4 April 1932) was a Baltic German chemist and philosopher.
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References
Also known as Cold color, Cold colors, Color (visual arts), Colour Tint, Colour Tone, Colour theorist, Colour theory, Cool color, Cool colors, Cool colours, Theory of color, Traditional color theory, Warm and cool colors, Warm color, Warm colors, Warm colours.