Light and Colour Theories, and their relation to light and colour standardizationLovibond, Joseph W. (Joseph Williams)
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Light and Colour Theories, and their relation to light and colour standardization
Lovibond, Joseph W. (Joseph Williams)
Color; Light
Complex Name. High value. Lower.
To develop a Red-Orange insert a Red and Yellow.
" Yellow-Orange " Yellow and Red.
" Yellow-Green " Yellow and Blue.
" Blue-Green " Blue and Yellow.
" Blue-Violet " Blue and Red.
" Red-Violet " Red and Blue.
A reference to the circles, 7, 8, and 9, on the cards supplied with
the apparatus will show that all complex colours are members of the
same triad group, and experiments have shown that the six combinations
above are the only ones distinguishable in Nature, subject, however, to
unlimited variations in brightness or dullness. It remains to be shown
how these variations are effected.
Variations in brightness are produced by inserting with the two glasses
forming a complex colour the third spectrum colour, always bearing
in mind that it must be less in value than either of the other two.
The addition of the third colour has a dulling or saddening effect,
the degree of which is determined by the numerical value of the third
colour. The colour produced by the addition of the third colour may
be termed a saddened or dingy colour, the appearance being that of a
brighter colour seen in shadow.
Reviewing the foregoing, it is demonstrated that primary or dominant
colours are transmitted by a single coloured standard glass; the
secondary or subordinate colours are transmitted by two equal standard
glasses of different colours; the complex colours by two unequal
standard glasses of different colours. Saddened pure colours are
developed either by one coloured standard glass combined with two equal
standard glasses of different colours and lesser value or by two equal
standard glasses of different colours and a third of lesser value.
Saddened complex colours by three unequal standard glasses of different
colours. Greys, which are steps towards blackness, are produced by
three equal standard glasses of different colours.
It is well known that Colour Blindness is a defect in the vision often
involving the confusion of such utterly distinct colour sensations as
Red and Green, Orange and Violet, and many others as widely different.
In the cases of Red and Green the confusions are specially disastrous
should the subject be a railwayman or a sailor. It is not, however, so
well known that many cases of so-called Colour Blindness are in reality
cases of Colour Ignorance, and the capacity for distinguishing between
colours and shades is often latent, and only waiting to be developed by
Education.
When a child persistently misnames colours after having received an
amount of instruction sufficient to remove colour ignorance in a normal
case, the errors are probably due to some form of colour blindness.
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