This lecture covered the fundamentals of colour theory and how colours work together, before looking at colour theory being applied to design. In this lecture it was touched on how, our eyes only see white spectral light reflecting off of objects, and that there are rods and cones in our eyes that allow us to perceive colour and tone - our brain then receives this information and builds the 3D world wee see around us.
The lecture also made the point that understanding of colour is based on the comparison of one colour to another, this infers that when two colours are placed next to each other the way we see one colour may be affected by the colour placed next to it. This also means that there is no such thing as the purist of one colour, as you could have many hues of the same colour and each time a new hue is revealed you might decide that a different hue is the purest form of that colour.
This being said then leads us on to the subject of classification: pantone - the coding of different hues of colours, the swatches we see in certain programmes such as photoshop are organised using this code.
Overall this lecture was interesting and informative, gave a scientific answer for why we see certain colours the way we do.
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