Sunday, February 26, 2012

And now for something completely different:

      I'd like to take this opportunity to interrupt our regularly scheduled programming with this brief color theory interlude.
      So the other day-- more like the other week actually... well it was Tuesday, February 13th to be exact, we had a brief overview of color interaction during class. After garnering all the knowledge, we were then asked to construct several examples to demonstrate what we learned about color interaction.

      Below is my best attempt at the bezold effect, in which one color will appear different when placed next to different colors. In other words, strips of two different colors on the same background color make the background appear different on the two sides.


      And here is my effort at demonstrating color vibration, where two colors of the same chroma become hard to focus on


      Last but not least, we have simultaneous contrast, where identical colors appear to shift when framed by different backgrounds.


      I thought it was very interesting that you never see a color as it truly is; you see it in relation to something, like what color it is next to. 

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