The Nature of Color and Everything You Don't Know

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We can find almost every color we know in nature, fashion, and of course art. However, there is a lot more science behind the different shades we see on a daily basis.

Take notes! Today we'll explain everything about the nature of color that you probably didn't know about.

The Nature of Color

Theory of the nature of color

To begin with, the colors we see every day are a mixture of multiple wavelengths resulting from absorbing a percentage of white.

The vast majority of objects have color due to filterspigments or dyes that absorb white light waves and thus reflect the rest of the others, the nature of the colors mandala the sum of all these lengths is what creates the perception of color.

The great physicist Isaac Newton discovered that light consists of a range of colors by separating them using a transparent prism, regardless of chromatic position. He called this a spectrum.

He chose seven colors from the light:

Red.
Orange.
Yellow.
Green.
Blue.
Indigo. -> (Color between Blue and Purple)
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Thus Newton began the theory that white is not the result of the absence of color, but rather the combination of all these. He showed that with the prism, colors are not added, but rather the color is kept in the all-Turkish light.

A natural example of sunlight outside of a prism is the rainbow itself, which occurs when raindrops reflect the sun's rays.

Each of the drops reflects its own full spectrum of colors, and the reason we see so many different colored bands is because of the position and angle from which the viewer observes.

Color is just one of the properties of light, but it is also the brain's response to light, meaning colors are actually sensory perceptions.

Being able to perceive colors in nature is a sense that awakens our brain thanks to our vision, and I will explain it to you next.

Human vision and color

The eyes have sensitive cells in the retina called cones, which are the cause of color perception. There are three types of cones:

Those who caught the red light.
Those who see the blue light.
Those who see the green light.

Therefore, human vision is trichromatic, with the combination of these three types of cones we can see the full range of available colors.

Colors replaceable I will talk about this next according to a set of criteria or perspectives in his presentation.

Properties of colors

Colors are not characterized only by blue or red, they can also change in other changeable directions, next I will describe the properties that all colors have:

Shadows

The tone indicates the color, it depends on us to understand whether it is red, blue, green…. From these characteristics you can see the following aspects:

Range: These are all the variations that the tonality can have, that is, the different colors and the amount of black or white it has depends on it.
Tone: When we mix a color with another color but in lesser amounts, for example if you mix green with yellow, it will remain green but will have a yellowish tone.

In the field of art, you can find other important concepts related to tones in the following:

Polychrome: This is when the image consists of various tones.
Monochrome: These are cases where the picture consists of a single tonality.
Palette: The combination of dominant tones chosen by the painter in the same painting.

Right here you will find other concepts such as warm and cold colors within tones, if you do not know I invite you to click on their articles and you will be able to learn all about them.

Brightness

The “brightness” of a color is defined as: amount of black and white We note that in the case of a pictorial painting, we can speak of chiaroscuro when the contrast between different chromatic regions is very intense.

Satiety

This is the concept best known to all people, it has to do with the level of purity or chromatic intensity that a color can carry.

I hope all this was helpful to you!