AHS 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1.4: Subtractive Color, Secondary Color, Primary Color
14 Sep 2016
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Color the optical effect caused when reflected white light of the spectrum is divided into separate wavelengths. Light consists of energy that travels in waves. Wavelength the distance between the peak of each wave of this energy. The colors of light make up the spectrum of potential visible colors. Our perception of color of objects is the result of the interaction between light and something in the surface of an object (pigment) Light alone does not determine the color that we perceive, it depends on light and pigment. The colors we see in objects are those portions of the light spectrum that a surface fails to absorb, and reflects instead. Our visual perception of reflected colors begins when the reflected color excites the nerve cells that lines the back of our eyes, nerve signals are processed and interpreted as color in the brain.
