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Not long before descending into the grey misery of the Great War, the Europeans decided to standardise the way we talk about light and colour and so in 1913 the CIE or International Commission on Illumination was born. The CIE...
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Traditional Colour Theory
Traditional colour theory is based on the largely Newtonian idea of three primary colours operating in two distinct modes or spaces: RGB for the additive space and CMY for the subtractive space.
The Mysterious Science of Colorimetry
Not long before descending into the grey misery of the Great War, the Europeans decided to standardise the way we talk about light and colour and so in 1913 the CIE or International Commission on Illumination was born. The CIE...
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Why We Can’t See Light
We humans can’t really see light, we can only see the consequences of light as it falls on objects which absorb or reflect light.
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Generative Design
Rune Madsen is an artist-cum-programmer who uses, as he puts it, “programming languages to...
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Filling in the Blanks: A Prehistory of the Adult Coloring Craze
Its dizzy heights may have passed, but the fad for adult coloring books is far from over. Many...
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Graphic Arts Handbook by Craig Kirkwood
Read MoreThe Red and Green Specialists: Why Human Colour Vision is so Odd
Most mammals rely on scent rather than sight. Look at a dog’s eyes, for example: they’re usually on the sides of its face, not close together and forward-facing like ours. Having eyes on the side is good for creating a broad...
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