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Interaction of Color

Color is the most relative medium — context changes everything

6 chapters12 topics
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Chapters

01

Color Relativity

Color is never seen as it physically is — context and memory continuously alter perception

Color Is Relative, Color Memory and Recollection

2 topics
02

Simultaneous Contrast

One color appears as two — and two colors can appear as one

1 Color Appears as 2, 2 Different Colors Look Alike

2 topics
03

Color Deception

After-images, vibrating boundaries, and vanishing edges — the visual system's active distortions

After-Image and Simultaneous Contrast, Vibrating Boundaries and Vanishing Edges

2 topics
04

Color Mixture

Transparence illusions, spatial reading, and finding the perceptual midpoint

Illusion of Transparence, The Middle Mixture

2 topics
05

Optical Effects

The Bezold Effect, color intervals, and how relationships define visual systems

The Bezold Effect, Color Intervals and Transformation

2 topics
06

Color Systems

Harmony through proportion, temperature as spatial depth, and the limits of color formulas

Color Harmony and Quantity, Color Temperature and Humidity

2 topics