Color

SANDRA CARBONELL
 INDEX

•Video about the colors

•Introduction
•Newton and the Color Spectrum theory
•Visible light
•Color perception in humans and animals
•Light colors / additive colors mixing

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 NEWTON AND THE COLOR SPECTRUM THEORY

A pioneer in the field of color, Isaac Newton in 1672, published his first,
controversial paper on color, and forty years later, his work 'Optics'.
Newton passed a beam of sunlight through a prism. When the light
came out of the prism is was not white but was of seven different colors:
Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet. The spreading
into rays was called dispersion by Newton and he called the different
colored rays the spectrum.
He learnt that when the light rays were passed again through a prism
the rays turned back into white light. If only one ray was passed
Isaac Newton through the prism it would come out the same color as it went in.
Newton concluded that white light was made up of seven different
1727-1642 colored rays.
Isaac Newton proved that white light is indeed made up of colors by
passing natural sunlight through a glass prism which in result projected
a rainbow of colors on a surface.

white light split

in different
colors when goes
through the
prism

white light
 WHY ARE THINGS THE COLOR THEY ARE
For example when we see a red tomato what we are actually
seeing is that portion of electromagnetic waves which inform
us it is red,when white light falls on the object, atoms absorb
most of the blue and yellow light and reject the rest, curiously
red tomato actually contains every wavelength except red,
the color that we see and we recognize using word and
emotions.
As you see the base of the phenomenon of color is about
vibrations and emission of energy but together we will see
that it’s much more.
A rainbow is a multicolored arc made by light striking
water droplets.
This optical illusion is produced when sunlight strikes
raindrops in front of a viewer at a precise angle (42
degrees). Rainbows can also be viewed around fog, sea
spray, or waterfalls.

Rainbows are part of the myths of many cultures around

the world. One of the most famous stories of the rainbow
is the Biblical story of Noah, shown here in a mosaic at
the Basilica of San Marco in Venice, Italy. God sent the
rainbow as a symbol to never again destroy the Earth
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 VISIBLE LIGHT
The first challenge it’s understand that colors don’t really
exist or we can say that they do exist only because Beetwen colors we can see many tonalities

our minds create them as an interpretation of vibrations

that are happening around us.
Colors are easier for us to understand than vibrations.
Human eye can distinguish about 10 million different
colors, but it’s only a very small portion of electromagnetic
waves between 0.00038 and 0.00075 millimeters.
We call this this section visible light, the rest of the
Electromagnetic spectrum is made up from many other
waves and energy including radio Waves, microwaves,
infrared waves, ultraviolet waves X-Rays and gamma
rays that human eye can’t see.
Each color has its own properties with its own wavelength
and frequency, take a look in this web site:
h t t p : / / w w w. c o l o u r t h e r a p y h e a l i n g . c o m / c o l o u r /
colour_properties.php

In terms of Color Therapy, the shortest wavelength colors

- are described as being cool electric colors and the lowest
wavelength colors - are described as being warm magnetic
colors.
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 COLOUR PERCEPTION
HOW HUMANS SEE COLOUR

Three factors make possible that we could see colors:

1. The faculty of vision. (eye and brain)
2. Light
3. Chemical properties of objects.

The way in which most of us actually see color, is through the sensors in the retina of our eyes
called rods and cones.
The rods are sensitive to low light and the cones, which require a greater intensity of light, are
sensitive to color. The message is passed to the optic nerve and then on to the brain. 8
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COLOUR BLINDNESS is an inaccurate term for a lack of perceptual sensitivity to certain
colors. Absolute color blindness is almost unknown, but in very rare cases, total color blindness
occurs.
Affecting around 7% of men, the main form of color blindness is the inability to distinguish red
from green. This means that people affected do not see the color red and green the same way as
others. The cause of this is due to the red or green photoreceptors working incorrectly.
Our eyes contain what are called rods and cones. It is these rods and cones that give us the ability
to see color.
The rods deal with brightness and the cones with color. There are three different types of cones:
red cones - green cones and blue cones. People that are effected by color blindness, have less
numbers of particular cones than normal, so they get colors confused. They may be able to see a
bright green colored object out side, but when viewed in artificial light, the same object may
appear brown in color. Or if the object was a dull green, it could even appear red.
People with normal colour
vision and those with all colour
Take a look at the two images: vision deficiencies should read
the number 12

People with normal colour vision should see the

number 8. Those with red-green colour vision
deficiencies should see the number 3. Total colour
blindness should not be able to read any numeral. 10
Deuteranopia - Simulator of Color Blindness

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 COLOR IN OTHER ANIMAL OR SPECIES

Bees many other insects and birds ca detect ultraviolet light, with helps
them to find nectar flowers, but on the other hand many of this species can’t
see red light, this variation happens depending of the number of the cones.
Mammals have red-green color blindness, and normally don’t have vision at
night.

Butterflies posses six types of cones,

but the most complex color vision
system in animal kingdom has been
found in Mantis Shrimp ( a kind of
lobster) with 12 cons

Dogs have orange and red blindness. Cats can detect

light at low levels than humans do.

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 LIGHT COLORS
ADDITIVE COLOR MIXTING
Red, green and blue are the "primary" colours of white light. The
combination of all three of these colours will result in white.
most familiar with in association with television, and computer displays.

Secondary additive colors are produced by mixing

two other additive primary colors together.

• The mix of this three light colors produce white light.

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