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Posted in Ponderings on Jun 4th, 2007
We are taught human vision is wonderful and near perfect. We all like to believe we are unique and special. We are only tri-chromatic which means we really only have 3 color sensors (cones) in our eyes. Birds are tetra-chromatic and some butterflies are even penta-chromatic. Feeling left out like I do? As it turns [...]
Posted in Ponderings on Jun 3rd, 2007
In 1820, Turner believed in 3 primaries: yellow, red, blue. Artists of this generation liked the idea of irreduceable number of elements. Turner went further because each had meanings blue=distance, red=material, yellow=light/medium. OK, toss his meanings, everyone talks of primary colors, only a few paints are needed mixed to make other colors, must be true. [...]
Posted in Ponderings on Jun 1st, 2007
At least Newton realized that color is intrinsically subjective (see previous posting), surely the great scientist didn’t twist his work for romantic notions. Did you know Newton divided the color spectrum into 7 parts ROYGBIV, analogous to 7 notes CDEFGAB, because he wanted a one-to-one correspondence of color with music. Too bad our brain is [...]