CHAPTER 6 Color
Color, without a doubt, is the most misunderstood visual component. Probably due to the misguided color education we received as children, our knowledge of color and how it works is almost unusable.
Light
We use sunlight or artificial lights to illuminate objects so we can see them. Naively, we might say that sunlight is normal “white” light because it doesn’t seem to change the color of objects. A white car parked outside in the sun still looks white, so sunlight is not reddish, greenish, or bluish. Sunlight appears to be normal “white” light.
By contrast, the same white car parked in a dark room illuminated with only red light appears changed. The car looks red. The red light is not “normal.” But the light from the sun is not ...
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