Media Aesthetics: Chapter 4 Color

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What is color?

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Color is the property of light, not of objects or liquids. Color is generated when light reflects off of objects.

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How do we perceive color?

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Light is reflected off of an object. Our eyes focus the reflected light onto our retina. Cones are grouped into receptors, specifically into red green and blue. The rods in the retina are used for low light but don't interpret light as the rods.

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What is hue?

Back 3

Describes the color its self. Red, green, blue, and yellow are hue.

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What is saturation?

Back 4

Saturation is the color richness. Bright vibrant colors are highly saturated, while dim less vibrant colors are low saturation.

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What is desaturation?

Back 5

When a color is desturated with white light (or white pigment), it looks more washed out and gets lighter,

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What is achromatic?

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Achromatic is white, gray, and black. They have no chroma.

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What are chromatic colors?

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When you hear of chromatic colors, you should think of colors with hure: blue, green,yellow, and so forth.

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What can normal saturation do to a scene?

Back 8

The normally saturated picture gives us more information about the vent but do not necessarily intensify it.

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What is brightness constancy?

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Color constancy means that we perceive an object as uniformly colored even if part of the object is shaded, great influencing its hue and brightness. When the object is isolated from its context, the camera will faithfully display the color differences and makes us disengage our aptitude for perceptual constancy.

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What is color energy?

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Color energy refers to the relative aesthetic impact a ccolor has on us. The energy depends on the hue, saturation, brightness, size of the color area, and constrast between foreground and background. Of these variables , a saturation is the most influential in determining color energy.