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Hues that lie next to each other on the color wheel
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| computer term for a series of color palettes available in certain software |
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| the choice of colors used in a work of art |
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| any of severeal 3D models for portraying color relationships according to variables of hue, saturation, and value |
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| any various attempts to illustrate color relationships as positions on a circle |
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| colors that are opposite each other on a color wheel |
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| double complementary schemes |
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| schemes made up of any two sets of complementary colors |
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| hues that can be obtained by mixing light rays of different wavelenghts |
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| the color that an object from the world of our experience appears to be |
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| three analogous colors in which on is an approximate mixture of the other two |
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| After staring at a highly saturated color, then look at a white area, an image of its complement will appear |
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| illusions of midtones created through the juxtaposition of light and dark areas |
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- The surface on which paints are mixed
- the range of colors used in a particular work or by a particular artist
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| a substance that reflects approximately the same color as the band of the same name in a spectrum of refracted light |
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- Use of small dots of varying colors in painting to create optical mixtures
- A nineteenth-century French school og painting that used this technique
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| the irreducible hues in a color system from which all other hues can be mixed |
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| the color that the eye perceives as reflected from a surface that absorbs all other wavelengths |
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| A measure of the relative brightness and purity or grayness of a color |
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| hues obtained by mixing two primary colors |
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| juxtaposition of complementary hues, creating such optical illusions as intensification of each hue and vibrations along the edge where they touch |
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| split complementary schemes |
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| A color combination in which a hue is used with hues lying on either side of its direct complement |
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| use of color to create a certain effect rather than to portray the apparent local color of a scene from the world of our experience |
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| hues obtained by mixing a primary color with a secondary color |
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| the degree of lightness or darkness of a surface |
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| the range of light rays that can be discerned by the human eye |
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| frequencies of electromagnetic radiation, some of which we see as colors |
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