Colour Measurement and MixtureAbney, William de Wiveleslie, Sir
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Colour Measurement and Mixture
Abney, William de Wiveleslie, Sir
Color
{Greenish yellow Aureolin with a little viridian.
{ and
{Violet blue French ultramarine.
{Green yellow Lemon yellow, with some emerald green.
{ and
{Violet French ultramarine with madder carmine.
{Yellowish green Lemon yellow with much emerald green.
{ and
{Purplish violet Madder carmine with French ultramarine.
{Green Emerald green with lemon yellow.
{ and
{Purple Madder carmine with French ultramarine.
{Emerald green Emerald green alone.
{ and
{Reddish purple Madder carmine with a little French ultramarine.
As these pairs of pigments are complementary, it follows that if rotated
together in proper proportions, they should make a grey which will be
indistinguishable from a grey formed by rotating black and white sectors
together. (See chap. XV.)
It will probably happen that a good deal more of one of the pairs of the
colours is required in the disc than of the other, and supposing that
the two are each used of the full brightness which the pigments are
capable of giving, it follows that in a diagram where equal areas are
filled with the pigments as complementary, some means must be adopted to
give the true depth of tone to each. The mixture of white will heighten
the luminosity of either, or the admixture of black will lower it, but
often alters the hue.
One of the most beautiful methods of observing complementary colours is
by means of the polarization of light, which we need not describe in
detail. What is known as Brücke's schistoscope is perhaps one of the
most convenient. Dove's Iceland spar prism is also useful, when two
pigments have to be worked on to paper, so as to be complementary. The
two squares of pigmented paper are placed side by side, and two images
of each are formed. One image of one colour can be caused to overlap the
second of the other, and if the two when superposed appear of a grey
they are complementary one to the other. If too much of one colour
appears, it must be toned down till the grey is formed. This is a very
simple piece of apparatus, and for experiments with pigments will be
found to be very handy. When the right tint of each is secured in this
manner, a further test may be made by making the pigmented surfaces into
sectors, and rotating them together, when if the double-image prism
gives correct results, the angular aperture of the sectors should be
180° each, to match a grey produced by a mixture by rotation of black
and white.
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