A comprehensive illustrated exploration of the fascinating science of color Arielle and Joann Eckstut, authors of The Secret Language of Color, offer a thorough, readable, and highly visual exploration of the science of color. Organized by 50 of the most essential questions about color across a variety of fields-physics, chemistry, biology, technology, and psychology-this book examines how and why we see color; how color relates to light; what the real primary colors are; how biology, language, and culture affect the colors that we see; and much more. Full of clear and elegant infographics, What Is Color? is a must-have for artists and designers, scientists, students, and decorators, and anyone else whose work or play involves color.
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- 1. What Is Color?
- 2. Why Do We See Color?
- 3. How Is Color Related to Light?
- 4. How Do We Know That Sunlight Is Made Up of Many Colors?
- 5. What Is ROYGBIV?
- 6. What Are Spectral Colors?
- 7. How Is Wavelength Related to Color?
- 8. What Is the Visible Spectrum?
- 9. How Is Energy Related to Color?
- 10. How Does Light Turn Into Color?
- 11. How Does Our Visual System Adjust to Changes in Light?
- 12. Why Are Borders and Edges Key to Our Color Vision?
- 13. What Does the Retina Do?
- 14. What Are Rods?
- 15. What Are Cones?
- 16. What Is Trichromacy?
- 17. What Is Color Opponency?
- 18. What Is an Afterimage?
- 19. What Is Color Constancy?
- 20. What Is Simultaneous Contrast?
- 21. Why Does the Same Color Look Different Depending on the Light Source?
- 22. What Is Metamerism?
- 23. How Many Colors Can Humans See?
- 24. What Is Color Blindness?
- 25. How Is Human Vision Different from the Vision of Other Animals?
- 26. What Are Nonspectral Colors?
- 27. What Is Pigment?
- 28. What Is the Difference Between Violet and Purple?
- 29. What Is Black?
- 30. What Is White?
- 31. What Are Pastel Colors?
- 32. What Are Primary Colors?
- 33. What Are Complementary Colors?
- 34. What Is Additive Color?
- 35. What Is Subtractive Color?
- 36. What Is RGB?
- 37. What Is CMYK?
- 38. Why Do Colors Look Different on Screens Than on Paper?
- 39. What Is Hue?
- 40. What Is Value?
- 41. What Is Chroma?
- 42. What Is a Color Wheel?
- 43. What Is the CIE Color Space?
- 44. What Is the Munsell Color System?
- 45. What Are PMS Colors?
- 46. What Is the CRI?
- 47. What Are Warm and Cool Colors?
- 48. Can Color Affect Your Mood?
- 49. How Does Language Affect the Colors We See?
- 50. What Color Is the Dress?
- Acknowledgments
- Image credits
- Index of Searchable Terms
- Copyright Page
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