Color Part Lecture SciVis 1

1. What is color
Visible energy that forms all the colors the human eye can see by adding/mixing
the three primary colors of light
2. What are the two models of color?
1. Additive
2. Subtractive
3. What are the wave lengths of visible light on the electromagnetic spectrum?
Narrow Range of the electromagnetic energy from the sun and artificial light
sources
4. What does ROYGBIV stand for?
Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Indigo
Violet
LIGHT:
5. What are the primary colors of light (additive)?
Red, Green, and Blue
6. What are the secondary colors of light?
Yellow, Magenta, and Cyan
7. What do you get when you mix the three primary colors of light together?
White light
8. Label the following color model for the correct additive colors (light).
White
Red

Magenta

Yellow
Green

Cyan
Blue

9. Other light colors can be created by:

A single, pure wavelength
10. What devices use the light (additive) color process?
Television
PIGMENT:

11. How is color created from pigments? When certain wavelengths of light are
absorbed and others are reflected or transmitted.
12. Why do we a yellow banana?
Subtractive process that allows everyday objects around us to show color
13. What are the primary colors of pigment (subtractive)?
Magenta, cyan and yellow
14. What are the secondary colors of pigment (subtractive)?
Red, green, and blue
15. What do we get when we mix the primary colors of pigment?
You get other colors
16. What devices use the subtractive colors to reproduce color?
Color printing, magazines, books, papers, posters, brochures
17. Label the following color model with the correct colors for Pigment.
Cyan

Blue

Black

Magenta

Green

Red
Yellow

Model
Light

Primary
colors
Red, green,
blue

Pigment Cyan,
Magenta,
Yellow

Secondary
colors
Yellow,
Magenta,
cyan
Red, yellow,
blue

Color when
all mixed
white

Other name

black

subtractive

addictive

Used in what
devices
Visible
colors
ink

HSV:
18. What does HSV stand for?
Illustrate color relationships by the depiction of various ranges of hue
19. Define hue.
Name given to different colors, and varies from manufacture to the next
20. Define saturation
Color intensity, lower the saturation, the more grey presents
21. Define value.
How light or dark a color appears

22. Draw the HSV model for color.

23. Make a slice of the HSV model in paint.

24. Do the HSV number activity in paint?
RGB:
25. What does RGB stand for?
Red, Green, and blue
26. Why are colors in the RGB model brighter?
27. What is 24-bit color?
256 variations for each of the additive colors of red. Green, and blue
28. What are the RGB call values for the following primary and secondary colors:
Red
Blue
Green
White

R=220
B=60
R=0
R=0
R= 225
B=225

G=20
G=0
G=128

Cyan
B=225
B=0

G=225

Magenta
Yellow
Black

R=0
B=255
R=139
R=225
B=0
R= 0

G=255
G=0
G=225
G=0

B=139
B=0

29. Do the Clemson, UNC activity.

CMYK:
30. What does CMYK stand for?
Four inks used in some color printing: cyan, magenta, yellow, and key
31. Why do we add the color black (K) to printer cartridges?
To save money on ink, and to produce deeper black tones
31. Why are the colors in CMYK muted?
Demonstrates the limitation of printing inks and the nature of reflected light
32. Which color model should you use when you are creating a document to be
printed? Why?
CMYK is a color model for commercial printing that produces a wide range of
colors
33. Which color model should you use when you are creating documents to be
published on the internet or used in a power point project? Why?
34. Can you convert documents back to RGB once you have converted it to CMYK?

Yes
35. What are complementary colors?
Colors directly opposite each other in the color spectrum
36. What is a color gamut?
Complete range of colors in something
37. Do the Map activities.
38. Do the NC population activity.
37. How do the following colors affect emotion?
Red: danger, stop, negative, excitement, hot
Dk Blue: Stable, calming, trustworthy, mature
Light Blue: youthful, masculine
Cool Green: growth, positive, organic, go, comforting
White: Pure, clean, and honest
Black: serious, heavy, death
Gray: integrity, neutral, cool, mature
Brown: Wholesome, organic, and unpretentious
Yellow: Emotional, positive, caution
Gold: Conservative, stable, elegant
Orange: Emotional, positive, organic
Purple: youthful, contemporary, royal
Pink: youthful, soft, feminine, warm
Pastels: youthful, soft, feminine, sensitive
Metallic: Elegant, lasting, and wealthy
38. What are three hints to remember when using color?
1. Avoid the simultaneous display of highly saturated, spectrally extreme colors
2. Pure blue should be avoided for text, thin lines, and small shapes. Since there
are no blue cones in the center of the retina, these are difficult to see
3. Avoid adjacent colors that differ only in the amount of blue
39. Do logo in paint

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