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What form of energy is part of the electromagnetic spectrum |
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In the visible spectrum, what is a mixture of wavelengths in a narrow band of the electromagnetic field? |
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Color is light that is broken down into electromagnetic vibrations known as wavelengths. |
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The longest wavelengths form what? |
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The longest wavelengths form the colors you see in a rainbow or prism. They fall in the order of red, orange, yellow, green. blue, and violet |
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Red, red-orange, orange, yellow-orange, and yellow are part of what color group? |
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Blue, blue-green, violet, and blue-violet are part of what color group? |
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Grey, white, and black are part of what color group? |
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Beige, brown, taupe, cream, ivory, off-black, and off-white (white with a small amount of any color added) is part of what group? |
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The primary colors cannot be mixed using any other colors, nor can they be broken down into component colors. |
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What makes a secondary color? |
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Any two primary colors that are mixed equally will result in a secondary color. |
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What makes a tertiary color? |
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Tertiary colors are made by combining equal amounts of primary color and secondary colors. |
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The process in which a color may be lighted, darkened or made more or less intense.
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What is the difference between a shade and a tint? |
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Adding white raises the value of the color. Adding black lowers the value of a color. |
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Adding black and white to a hue(color) creates a grayed hue. |
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Why is a toned hue beneficial in interior design? |
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Toned or grayed hues are extremely useful in creating color schemes in which muted colors are needed to tone down the brighter hues. |
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What describes the degree of saturation of pure color? |
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Achromatic, monotone, monochromatic, analogous, and complementary are part of what? |
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What is an achromatic color scheme? |
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This color scheme is developed by utilizing black, white, or variations of gray. |
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What color scheme is created using neutralized colors that fall halfway between warm and cool? |
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What color scheme is developed from a single hue, but with a range of values and different degrees of intensity? |
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What scheme always consists of warm and cool colors because they are opposite of each other on the color wheel? |
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What are the six complementary schemes |
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Direct complement, split complement, triad complement, double complement, alternate complement, and terrrad. |
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What color scheme uses any two colors that lie directly opposite each other on the color wheel? |
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What color scheme contains any hue plus two hues next to its complement? |
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What color scheme consists of any three colors that are an equal distance from one another on the color wheel? |
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What philosophy believes in the understated and unobtrusive elements of design? |
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What color scheme is differs based on an individuals birth year and their basic element wood, earth, water, metal, or fire? |
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What colors form the Ostwald color wheel? |
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The Ostwald color wheel consisted of yellow, orange, red, purple, ultramarine blue, turquoise, sea green, and leaf green. |
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How many hues can be produced using the Ostwald color wheel? |
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How many variations can be produced using the 24 hues on the Ostwald color wheel? |
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28 variations from can be produced using the 24 hues. Resulting in a total of 672 hues and 8 neutrals. |
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What hues does the Munsell color wheel consist of? |
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Yellow, red, blue, green, and purple. |
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What is the Ostwald system based on? |
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The Ostwald system is based on the hue plus the white content and the black content of the hue. |
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What is the Munsell system based on? |
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It is a scientific concept of describing and analyzing color and its three dimensions. Hue, value, and chroma. |
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