NATS 1870 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Additive Color, Tertiary Color, Ryb Color Model
19 Nov 2014
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: lightness or darkness of a color: ways to organize color. Value scale human eye sensitive most to value lightest-darkest white (yellow red blue) black. : wrapped into the color wheel by newton, established an order for. Specifying color: hue: the name of the color; wavelength similar to hue, value (or tone): the lightness or darkness of a color on a grey scale that runs from white to black. Black, have low value, absorbs: saturation (or chroma):the amount of pure hue that is present in a color; purity or intensity. Depending on hue of color indicates saturation. When a hue is mixed, it becomes less pure or gets diluted; the saturation drops (i. e pink is red & white mixed together) (red is the hue, white added to it makes it a desaturated red) Completely unsaturated (black, white, grey) have no hue, called achromatic colors. Newton"s color wheel had 7 primary colors (roygbiv)
