This video is explaining the science behind color and seeing. The video showed the information of the science of color from the eyes to the brain. In addition, the video provides visual aides to get the concepts across. This provides a layman explanation of color and how it works. This is a good start to understanding the basic science of color.
This article talks about the science behind color. It breaks it further down into each color separately. This is interesting to me because it even talked briefly about the psychological properties of color. As a psychology major, it is interesting to see the different emotions/feelings that certain colors evoke in humans. While this is a complex subject, this article provides an interesting start to learning about it. This article looks at this for the sake of graphic design, however, it is interesting to see the ideas that are even connected to science and psychology.
This article was interesting to me because it described the specificity of the science of color. As I learned from this article, When light hits an object, most, but not all, of its rays get absorbed. Thus, what we think is the color of something is the only color it’s not. Black is the lack of color. Black means all of the color is absorbed. This is also why black holes seen black. The gravity is so strong that it sucks in all light. No light is reflected. White means all of the light is reflected.
Color blindness is when you are not able to see a certain color like dogs. This is usually just a thing that you are born with and was carried with the x chromosome. This article describes how color blindness works. The cause of color blindness is in the eye. This is interesting to me because, after learning all about how color does work scientifically, it is intriguing to see how it doesn’t work. The failings of the human body that exist to defy the laws of nature.
