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Color
Color Final Test
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Art/Design
Undergraduate 4
11/18/2009

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Term
Which of the three dimensions in the munsell color system serves as the attention getter?
Definition
Chroma
Term
Equal small amounts of color start looking more alike - as in stripes - and they achieve a tonality. This is called?
Definition
Bezold Effect/Color assimilation
Term
When looking at an afterimage or successive contrast, what color do you see?
Definition
It's opposite on the color wheel
Term
Name the author/artist who wrote Interaction of Color, which extensively examined color relationships
Definition
Josef Albers
Term
Harmonious Hues are?
Definition
Analogous
Term
In color interaction, small areas of color change in hue, value, or chroma on different fields of background color because of?
Definition
Simultaneous contrast
Term
A strong chroma hue will look _ on a weak or low chroma background
Definition
Brighter
Term
Which color theorist demonstrated that white light contains all spectral hues?
Definition
Newton
Term
A color plus white is?
Definition
Tint
Term
A color plus black is?
Definition
Shade
Term
What are the Primary colors for additive mixing?
Definition

Red green blue

Secondary: Magenta cyan yellow

Term
in additive mixing what do all the colors together create?
Definition
white
Term
Name the German author, poet, and color researcher who wrote about the subjective aspect of color and determined a formula for color balance
Definition
Goethe
Term
According to theories of color balance, orange is number 8 and blue is number 4. What is the most pleasing proportion of orange to blue?
Definition
1:2
Term
What are the primary colors for subtractive mixing?
Definition

Red, Yellow, Blue (Magenta, Yellow, Cyan)

Secondary: Red Yellow Green

Term
In subtractive mixing what do all the colors together make?
Definition
black
Term
The range of color available in any type of coloring system in called a _.
Definition
gamut
Term
An image that uses dots, dabs, or splashes of color to visually mix hues at a distance is called?
Definition
optical mixture
Term
what are two medias that use additive mixing?
Definition
TV and Comp
Term
In subtractive mixing, we see red b/c the red lightwaves are _
Definition
reflected
Term
What structures in the eye respond to bright lights and interpret color??
Definition
cones
Term
Which color disappears first from sight?
Definition
red
Term
_ carries more than 90% of the information in a design
Definition
value
Term
on a dark background, colors get _ as the go back in space
Definition
darker
Term
what structures in the eye function under low light conditions and don't process color information?
Definition
rods
Term
in additive color mixing, red and green make what?
Definition
yellow
Term
_ carries the emotional or expressive content of a design
Definition
Hue
Term
On a light background how do colors change as the go back in space?
Definition
lighter and weaker
Term
what type of colors are relaxing to the human eye
Definition
cool
Term
what types of colors advance in space and appear larger?
Definition
warm
Term
what colors seem heavier in weight?
Definition
darker
Term
strong chroma always _ in space?
Definition
advances
Term
what type of light is the best at rendering color?
Definition
daylight
Term
two colors that match under one light source but not another is called?
Definition
metamerism
Term
what type of artificial lighting is the most energy inefficient
Definition
incandescent
Term
why is there no highlight on a matte surface?
Definition
because the light is reflected at different angles
Term
list 5 way to create color unity
Definition
key the color, limit palette, hue dominance, harmonious hues, value transitions, soften chroma, use of neutrals
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