What is color? : 50 questions and answers on the science of color / Arielle Eckstut & Joann Eckstut.
| Author/creator | Eckstut, Arielle author. |
| Other author | Eckstut, Joann, author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | New York, NY : Abrams, 2020. |
| Copyright Date | ©2020 |
| Description | 1 online resource : color illustrations |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Contents | What is color? -- Why do we see in color? -- How is color related to light? -- How do we know that sunlight is made up of many colors? -- What is ROYGBIV? -- What are special colors? -- How is wavelength related to color? -- What is the visible spectrum? How is energy related to color? How does light turn into color? -- How does our visual system adjust to changes in light? -- Why are borderes and edges key to our color vision? -- What does the retina do? -- What are rods? -- What are cones? -- What is trichromacy? -- What is color opponency -- What is an afterimage? -- What is color constancy? -- What is simultaneous contrast? -- Why does the same color look different depending on the light source? -- What is metamerism? -- How many colors can humans see? -- What is color blindness? -- How is human vision different from the vision of animals? -- What are nonspectral colors? -- What is pigment? -- What is the difference between violet and purple? -- What is black? -- What is white? -- What are pastel colors? -- What are primary colors? -- What are complementary colors? -- What is additive color? -- What is subtractive color? -- What is RGB? -- What is CMYK? -- Why do colors look different on screens than on paper? -- What is hue? -- What is value? -- What is chroma? -- What is a color wheel? -- What is the CIE color space? -- What is the Munsell color system? -- What are PMS colors? -- What is the CRI? -- What are warm and cool colors? -- Can color affect your mood? -- How does language affect the colors we see? -- What color is the dress?. |
| Abstract | 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. |
| General note | Includes index |
| Source of description | Print version record |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Eckstut, Arielle. What is color? New York, NY : Abrams, [2020] 9781419734519 |
| Genre/form | miscellanies. |
| Genre/form | Trivia and miscellanea. |
| Genre/form | Trivia and miscellanea. |
| Genre/form | Miscellanées. |
| ISBN | 1683355199 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9781683355199 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (hardcover) |
| Stock number | 76EC5A27-6324-46A0-8A82-D594EE09290B OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |