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  1. Physical properties

    Electromagnetic radiation is characterized by its wavelength (or frequency) and its intensity. When the wavelength is within … See more

    Color - Wikipedia

    • Color (American English) or colour (British and Commonwealth English) is the visual perception based on the electromagnetic spectrum. Though color is not an inherent property of matter, color perception is related to an object's light absorption, reflection, emission spectra, and interference. For most humans, colors are perceived in the visible light spectrum … See more

    Color vision

    Although Aristotle and other ancient scientists had already written on the nature of light and color vision, it was not until Newton that light was identified as the source of the color sensation. In 1810, Goethe published … See more

    Reproduction

    Color reproduction is the science of creating colors for the human eye that faithfully represent the desired color. It focuses on how to construct a spectrum of wavelengths that will best evoke a certain color in an … See more

    Optimal colors

    The gamut of the human color vision is bounded by optimal colors. They are the most chromatic colors that humans are able to see.
    The emission or reflectance spectrum of a color is the … See more

    Cultural perspective

    The meanings and associations of colors can play a major role in works of art, including literature.
    Individual colors have a variety of cultural associations such as national colors (in general de… See more

    Unusual colors

    Some colors are objectively unusual or special. For example orpiment was a pigment used by painters in the 16th century, but is now considered dangerous due to arsenic. Sonoluminescence is a blue-purple crea… See more

     
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  5. Color wheel - Wikipedia

    Gradient RGB/CMY color wheel Seven-color and twelve-color color circles from 1708 (attributed to Claude Boutet) Wilhelm von Bezold's 1874 Farbentafel. A color wheel or color circle [1] is an abstract illustrative organization of color …

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  7. The Science of Color - Smithsonian Libraries

    Aristotle developed the first known theory of color, suggesting that all colors came from white and black (lightness and darkness) and related them to the four elements – water, air, earth, and fire.

  8. Color | Definition, Perception, Types, & Facts | Britannica

    Oct 21, 2024 · Color, the aspect of any object that may be described in terms of hue, lightness, and saturation. In physics, color is associated specifically with electromagnetic radiation of a certain range of wavelengths visible to the …

  9. Primary color - Simple English Wikipedia, the free …

    The primary colors are those which cannot be made by mixing other colors in a given color space. For an additive color model, as in overlapping projected lights or in television and computer screens, the primary colors are red, green, and …

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