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Notebook, 1993-

Light & Color - [Rainwater, Clarence, Prof. of Physics, San Francisco State College, Original Project Editor Herbert S. Zim, Golden Press, NY, Western Publishing Company, Inc., 1971.]

Principles of Color - [Wong, Wucius. Principles of Color Design. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold. 1987]

Color - [Harlan, Calvin. Vision & Invention, An Introduction to Art Fundamentals. Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1986.]

Color Circle - Color Comparison - Color Properties - Color Stability - Color Wheel - Tinting Strength - Diffraction Color - Chroma - Color Chart - Color Effect - Color Notation - Color Scheme - Iridescence - Munsell System - Opacity / Transparency - Opalescence - Ostwald System - Saturation - Tristimulus Values - [Mayer, Ralph. The HarperCollins Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques. Second Edition. Revised and edited by Steven Sheehan, Director of the Ralph Mayer Center, Yale University School of Art. New York: HarperCollins. 1969. 1991.]

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Pigments

Diffraction Color


Any brilliant rainbow or spectrum color produced by the diffraction of light rather than by pigmentation; also called prismatic color. An ever-changing play of diffraction colors is called iridescence. The iridescence of oil layers on water or of soap bubbles demonstrates the general rule that a thin layer surrounded by two mediums of different refractive index [in these cases, air and water] will usually diffract light. Diffraction colors may also be produced by use of a prism or of a diffraction grating, a piece of glass or plastic on which microscopically small, closely parallel lines have been engraved. Diffraction colors appear in nature when light passes through a surface that is either structured so that it acts as a selective diffraction grating or, like the plumage of certain birds, is equivalelnt to myriads of tiny lenses or prisms. Diffraction colors differ from pigment colors in their almost metallic intensity and in the fact that they are produced by the additive or light-ray process rather than the subtractive process. [p. 118]

[Mayer, Ralph. The HarperCollins Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques. Second Edition. Revised and edited by Steven Sheehan, Director of the Ralph Mayer Center, Yale University School of Art. New York: HarperCollins. 1969. 1991.]




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