NATS 1870 Lecture : Lecture 1 What causes color? What we know as color is a perception/sensation created by human eye & brain. Scattering. Living Color Video 3 Dimensions of Color “Primary” color sets: There are 2 ways to mix color in your eye:
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Light each light source has a particular color (neon, fluorescent, tungsten) Surface color molecules cause color on fabric, colors get absorbed but surface color itself & reflects it in our eyes (individual lights = protons) Sun produce own light astronomy color. Soap bubbles, iridescent lights, crystals, optical color produce color from material & light interacts (shells & insect wings) The color spectrum light passed through a prism gets broken down to component colors ( r o y g b i v ) Light falling on surfaces get absorbed: some color absorbed, some color reflected, reflected color travels to eye. What we know as color is a perception/sensation created by human eye & brain. Light sun space (blue + violet light interact w/ smallest molecules) Long wave length pass & small wave length get directed to ^ Blue eyes tiny particles finely distributed, less melanin = light eyes. No one theory determines color of objects.
