Yes. Red + Green = Yellow
Yes, Red + Green = Yellow. There is a very good reason why this sounds so counterintuitive and we’ll get to that soon….
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The Barnes Foundation
Looking forward to this Spring. In mid April I’ll be teaching a color workshop for the docents and guides at The Barnes…
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Time for a Rood Awakening!
In 1874 (142 years ago) Physicist Ogden Rood gave a couple of lectures on ‘Modern Optics in Painting’ at the National Academy of…
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Topology: Part II
We live in 3 Dimensional space with each dimension perpendicular to all the others. The 1st Dimension is a Line. In math…
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Topology: Part I
Topology: to·pol·o·gy 1. Mathematics: the study of geometric properties and spatial relations unaffected by the continuous change of shape or size of figures….
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VLQ Question: What is the Complement of this?
So according to this… And this… Answer: The Complement to red is Green. Well, we’ll just see about…
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VLQ Question: What Hue is this?
The first question in the Visual Literacy Quiz asks you to identify the Hue. Each of the colored squares are identical but are…
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Do You Really See Blue Trees?
Art history legend has it that Monet was once painting a landscape somewhere in a public park near Paris, when a woman who…
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