Foundations
Light and Seeing
What color is before it reaches the canvas, and how the eye reads it
Color begins as light. These pages follow it from a light source, off a surface and into the eye and brain. They also show why a color that seems fixed can shift when the light does.
- The band of wavelengths we can see
- Why lights add up to white while paints add up to dark
- Three kinds of cone and the brain's comparison
- Changing light, constancy, and colors that match under only one light
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