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Title

SEEING COLOR (Hornung-0112)

Description

Color and Design, Hornung, Chapter 1

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Subject

Art/Design

Level

Undergraduate 2

Created

08/25/2012

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Term

SPECTRAL COLORS

Definition

Those colors that aproach the purity of colors cast by a glass prizm or rainbow.

(Hornung 0114)

Term

LUMINOSITY

Definition

The degree of light energy.

(Hornung 0114)

Term

SUBTRACTIVE COLOR PROCESS

Definition

The degree to which mixing colors subtracts light and darkens the surface. (Hornung-0114)

Term

SPECTRUM

Definition

Colors as cast upon wall by a prizm, or as seen in a rainbow in the formof pure colored light.