Colors Everywhere

Colors Everywhere

R O Y G B I V
 Learning objective
• At the end of this lesson you are expected to:
1. define color and explain why objects appear in different
colors;

2. apply color addition and color subtraction to identify

what color will appear to a given material; and

3. appreciate applications and uses of colors to real life

situations.
PRETEST
Colors Everywhere
Colors Everywhere
God said, “Let there be
light.” And there was light!
Try zooming in a color photograph displayed
on a computer screen. You will see that
there are many tiny squares on the
photograph, called pixels. The computer
screen might be set to display hundreds of
colors, thousands, or even millions of colors.
All of these are generated by combining
only three colors of light, red, green and
blue. But, if you are going to print that
photograph, printer would use only three
colors, cyan, yellow and magenta, plus
black, to create the image out of tiny dots
of ink. The three colors the computer uses
are different from the three colors the
printer uses.
In 1666, English Physicist Isaac
Newton discovered that white light is
a combination of colors. He passed
sunlight through a triangular prism
which resulted in sunlight fanning out
into a band of colors. Figure 1 shows
how colors of light behave using
prism. The color sequence was similar
to a rainbow; red at one end, merging
gradually to orange, and then yellow
to green, blue, indigo and violet. He,
then, placed a second prism behind
the first but in a reversed position and
found out that the colors recombined
to form white light.
Dispersion is the splitting of white light into its constituents colors called
spectrum. ROY G. BIV is an easy way to remember the orders of colors in
spectrum. As white light passes through a prism, shorter wavelengths refract
more than longer wavelengths, and the colors separate.
Rainbow is a beautiful
example of dispersion. Water
droplets in the air act like
prisms and separate sunlight
into the spectrum. Light
enters a raindrop, slows down
and refracts. Then, it reflects
off the far inner surface of the
raindrop. It refracts again as it
exists the raindrop, speeds up
and travels back toward the
source of light.
Color is a sensation that is aroused when light
falls on the retina of the eye. Color perception
depends on the different degrees to which
various wavelengths of light stimulate the
eye. There are three aspects; the waves that
produce the different sensations, the eye that
receives these color sensations, and the brain
that interprets these sensations. Each color of
light corresponds to certain wavelength. Red
has the longest wavelength and violet has the
shortest. There are many colors as there are
different wavelengths. Our eyes can only
recognize three groups of wavelengths: red,
green and blue. But, our brain can recognize
other color combinations and can interpret
many colors.
The object’s color is the color of
light that reaches your eye when
you look at the object. The color of
any object depends on what the
object is made of and on the color
of light that strikes that object.
Sunlight contains colors of the
visible spectrum. But, when you
look, for example, a red paint
reflects mostly red light and the
other colors are absorbed at the
surface of the paint.
 Red + Blue + Green = White
Color Addition is the
process of producing
other colors by mixing
suitable portions of the
primary colors of light,
red, blue and green. If
these colors are
combined together, they
will produce white.
 Red + Blue = Magenta
Red + Green = Yellow
Secondary Blue + Green = Cyan
colors will be
produced
when two
primary colors
are added
together.
Color Subtraction is applied to
obtain the color of an object. When
light is incident on an object, some of
it may be reflected, some refracted,
others absorbed, and some may be
transmitted.
An opaque object selectively
absorbs some light and reflects the
rest. The color of it depends on the
color of light it reflects and the colors
of the light source.
A transparent material
selectively absorbs one
or more frequencies of
light and transmitting
what is not absorbed.
The color of a
transparent material is
the color of light it
transmits.