Notes on Colour
last revised March 2020
Miscellaneous notes on colour—an interactive site including comments, conjectures, descriptions, demonstrations and experiments
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lecture notes
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colour perception
primary colours
mixing colours
partitive mixing
hybrid mixing
unmixed colours
opponent colours
colour vision deficiency
colour vision testing
colour names
stability of colour names
variability of colour names
painters' colour names
translating colour names
colour perception and language
colour meanings
colour and sound
colour relativity
simultaneous contrast
successive contrast
reverse contrast
colour qualities
hue
rotating hues
luminance
luminance information
quantifying luminance (luminance ambiguity?)
saturation
HLS
HSB & HSL
HSB information
tints tones shades
cool colours, warm colours
additive colours
RGB
mixing
RGB
channels
Web colours
websafe
colours
analogue photography
adding lights
colour gamut
onscreen gamut
colour management
alpha channels
subtractive colours
CMY mixing
combining filters
subtractive complications
printers' primaries
4-colour printing
4-colour mixing
fading prints
painters' primaries
the painters' colour wheel
complementaries
complementary pairs
temporal mixing
complementary pairs (HLS)
critical confusion
critical confusion continued
critical confusions continue
contemporary confusion
colour harmonies
harmonious triads
harmonious triads (HLS)
unequal harmonies
balanced pairs
pixel averaging
complex harmonies
unequal balance
discord
colour schemes
monochromatic
complementary
false complementary
split complementary
double complementary
triadic
strictly triadic
accent colour
earth colours
high key
low key
uneven
torn paper
3-D colour space
a colour wheel
historical colour wheels
a colour disc
a colour sphere
the Munsell solid
the
RGB
cube
a game
a path
complementary paths
harmonious paths
a colour cone
CIE
colour space
L*a*b colour
spectral colour
colour temperature
mired values
lighting complications
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