Color Part Lecture SciVis 1

1. What is color?
The property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a
result of the way the object reflects or emits ligh
2. What are the two models of color?
1. Hue
2. Shade
3. What are the wave lengths of visible light on the electromagnetic spectrum?
390 to 700
4. What does ROYGBIV stand for?
Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Indigo
Violet
LIGHT:
5. What are the primary colors of light (additive)?
White, red, green, and blue
6. What are the secondary colors of light?
yellow
7. What do you get when you mix the three primary colors of light together?
A nasty shade of yellow
8. Label the following color model for the correct additive colors (light).

9. Other light colors can be created by:

White
10. What devices use the light (additive) color process?
Color digital printing, binding processes, and ink jet printing processes
PIGMENT:
11. How is color created from pigments?
Iron, water, scrap, and chemicals

12. Why do we a yellow banana?

13. What are the primary colors of pigment (subtractive)?
Yellow and cyan (red, yellow, and blue)
14. What are the secondary colors of pigment (subtractive)?
Red, yellow, and blue
15. What do we get when we mix the primary colors of pigment?
More colors
16. What devices use the subtractive colors to reproduce color?
green
17. Label the following color model with the correct colors for Pigment.

HSV:
18. What does HSV stand for?
Herpes simplex virus
19. Define hue.
A color of shade
20. Define saturation
The state or process that occurs when no more of something can be absorbed,
combined with, or added
21. Define value.
He regard that something is held to deserve; the importance, worth, or usefulness
of something.
22. Draw the HSV model for color.

23. Make a slice of the HSV model in paint.

24. Do the HSV number activity in paint?
RGB:
25. What does RGB stand for?
Red, green, blue
26. Why are colors in the RGB model brighter?
Nah
27. What is 24-bit color?
True color
28. What are the RGB call values for the following primary and secondary colors:
Red
Blue
Green
White

R=
R=
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G=
G=
G=
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B=
B=
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Cyan
Magenta
Yellow
Black

R=
R=
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G=
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B=
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29. Do the Clemson, UNC activity.

CMYK:
30. What does CMYK stand for?
Process color, four colors
31. Why do we add the color black (K) to printer cartridges?
Na
31. Why are the colors in CMYK muted?
Thats a really good question.
32. Which color model should you use when you are creating a document to be
printed? Why?
Specify additional color management options to keep color consistent in the
printer output. For example, suppose that your document currently contains a
profile tailored for prepress output, but you want to proof the document colors on
a desktop printer.
33. Which color model should you use when you are creating documents to be
published on the internet or used in a power point project? Why?
Pink, blue, green, orange
34. Can you convert documents back to RGB once you have converted it to CMYK?
yes
35. What are complementary colors?
Red, purple, orange, yellow, green
36. What is a color gamut?
Certain complete subset of colors

37. Do the Map activities.

38. Do the NC population activity.
37. How do the following colors affect emotion?
Red: angry
Dk Blue: clam
Light Blue: calm
Cool Green: happy
White: natural
Black: sadness
Gray: sad
Brown: natural
Yellow: happy
Gold: excited
Orange: springy
Purple: melo
Pink: girly
Pastels: artist
Metallic: emo
38. What are three hints to remember when using color?
1. color in between the lines
2. not to dark of colors
3.

Color My
World!!!