Colour is Relative
Colour is Light
Colour is Light
- We all perceive light and colour differently. What you see as red is different than what I see as red, though we’ll both call it red.
- How colour affects us and how we react to it is also different for each of us.
- A good design/painting should work in the absence of colour. It should work when viewed in grayscale.
Colour is Light
Light is electromagnetic radiation and over a range of wavelengths it makes an impression on the human eye. This range of wavelengths is the visual spectrum.
When light hits an object some wavelengths are absorbed and others are reflected. We see the reflected wavelengths of light as colour.
Light is electromagnetic radiation and over a range of wavelengths it makes an impression on the human eye. This range of wavelengths is the visual spectrum.
When light hits an object some wavelengths are absorbed and others are reflected. We see the reflected wavelengths of light as colour.
- When all the wavelengths in the visual spectrum are absorbed we see black
- When all the wavelengths in the visual spectrum are not absorbed we see W H I T E