NATS 1870 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Ogden Rood, Cyan, Color Psychology
28 Sep 2016
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Nweton: wrapped spectrum to make colour wheel, roygbiv (late 1600s) Published theory of colours in 1810: observation about colour, critique of newton. Scientifically his theories were not well received but his work still had an impact: painters colour psychology, colour symbolism. Colour arises at boundary of light and dark. Misinterpretation of observation of the inferior technology. French chemist appointed director of dyeing . Systematically observed colour and how it impacted others: published simultaneous contrast. Each colour pushes its negations in the direction of its complement. Confusing but he recognized the importance of good colour organization: represent all whites of colour, means of knowing complement, visualisation of colour wheel without. Published theory of vision 1859 built upon thomas youngs tricolour theory. Essential idea was thatall colours would arise from mixtures of red green and blue: maxwell created this colour traiangle to ofc organize colour, each colour fraction of red + rfraction of blue + fraction of green.
