Modern Chromatics (Classic Reprint): With Applications to Art and Industry - Couverture souple

Ogden N. Rood

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1331979811 ISBN 13 : 9781331979814

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore how light and color create what you see in Modern Chromatics, a clear, accessible look at color theory and its practical uses.

This edition invites you to understand why colors mix the way they do and how lighting changes what we perceive. Color isn’t fixed. The text explains how different wavelengths produce color sensations, how complementary colors interact, and why white light can be achieved in multiple ways. You’ll see how theory meets observation through experiments and diagrams that illuminate everyday color in art, design, and nature.

• How light, pigment, and color interact to create white or vivid hues
• Differences between absorption, dispersion, and true color mixing
• Practical implications for painting, stained glass, and lighting choices
• Foundations of color theory, including complementary pairs and brightness

Ideal for readers curious about the science behind color, its history, and its practical applications in art and everyday viewing.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from Modern Chromatics: With Applications to Art and Industry

IT was not my intention to write a preface to this book, is I have usually found such compositions neither instructive nor amusing. On presenting the manuscript to my publishers, however, it was suggested that, al though prefaces are of no particular use to readers, yet from a certain point of view they are not without value.

I accordingly beg leave to state that my object in this work has been to present, in a clear, logical, and if possi ble attractive form, the fundamental facts connected with our perception of colour, so far as they are at present known, or concern the general or artistic reader. For the explanation of these facts, the theory of Thomas Young, as modified and set forth by Helmholtz and Maxwell, has been consistently adhered to. The whole class of musical theories, as well as that of Field, have been discarded, for reasons that are set forth in the text.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331979811
• ISBN 13: 9781331979814
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 348
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