NATS 1870 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Three-Dimensional Space, James Clerk Maxwell, Isaac Newton
12 Oct 2018
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Lecture: history of light and colour part one. 7 basic colours: each colour can be lighter, darker, albertus magnus: white contains all colours, first believed person to state that all colours can be contained in a single colour (white) Renaissance: 1400-1600, s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)tifi(cid:272) re(cid:448)olutio(cid:374), aristotle"s helio(cid:272)e(cid:374)tri(cid:272) (cid:448)ie(cid:449, kepler: first complete description of the eye. Interested in mixing colours of paints from rby primaries: created first subtractive (surface) colour system for physical materials like pigments (18 hues) Johann lambert: first 3-d colour system: first 3-d colour system; 3 basic attributes of colour (hues, saturation, brightness) are properly varied, contained 108 distinct colour-units. Summary: ancient greek, light and darkness as separate entities from each other (no longer seen as two separate ones, light as one of the four natural elements, mixing light with human vision. L; lightness, *a; position between red and green, *n; position between yellow and blue: photoshop: fluent in several colour system, colours can be specified by various colour systems.
