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| A form that has mass & appears to occupy space. A void is space itself defined by planes or other elements |
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When all colors of light are present in equal amounts. For this reason, creating colors with light is called additive.
Creating colors with pigments is called subtractive. |
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| Color has three basic qualities |
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| hue, value, and intensity (chroma). |
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1)Hue:
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3)Intensity (chroma): |
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1)Basic color.
2)Degree of lightness or darkness in relation to white & black
3)Defined by the degree of purity of the hue when compared with neutral gray of the same value. |
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1) When white is added to a hue, its value is raised, and this is created.
2) When black is added to a hue, its value is lowered, and this is created.
3)Adding gray of the same value to a hue. |
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| Two types of systems used to describe and quantify color |
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The Brewster System (also known as the Prang System), and organizes color pigments into the three primary colors.
The Munsell System defines more acurately than the color wheel and uses three scales in three dimensions to specify the values of hue, value, and chroma. |
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| those opposite each other on the color wheel. |
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| The effects of light on color |
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| Incandescent is very yellow, while mid-day sunlight is predominantly blue. Cool white flourescent lamps have a large blue and green component, and warm white flourescent lamps have a higher yellow and orange spectral disctribution. |
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| a red object seen under incandescent light will... |
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| appear red and vibrant, while a blue object of the same value will appear washed out and muddy. The same blue object, however, would be rendered closer to its actual color if seen under mid-day light or under cool white flourescent light. |
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| Monochromatic color scheme |
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| employs one hue with variations only in intensity & value. |
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| hues that are close to each other on the color wheel. |
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| uses equally spaced colors around the color wheel such as yellow-orange, blue-green and red-violet |
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| uses four colors that are equally spaced around the wheel. |
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| A Parsons table primarily uses which of the following types of design elements |
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| Effects of adjacent color & light |
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1) when two complementary colors are seen adjacent to each other, each appears to heighten the otehr's saturation. when a small area of one color is placed on a background of a complementary color, teh small ara of color becomes more intense.
2)when two noncomplementary colors are placed together, each apprears to tint the other with it's own complement...which means the two colors will seem farther apart on the color wheel than they are.
3) two primary colors seen together will tend to appear tinted with the third primary |
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| Effects of adjacent colors and light continued.. |
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4)a light color placed against a darker background will appear lighter than it is, while a dark color against a light background, will appear darker than it actually is. Also known as simultaneous contrast.
5) a background color will absorb teh same color in a second, noncomplementary color, placed over it. ie, an orange spot on a red background will appear more yellow because the red "absorbs" the red in the orange sample.
6)a neutral gray will appear warm when placed on a blue background, and cool when placed on a red background. |
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