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Unusual Color Wheels Found in Life and Art
colourlovers.com — The first color wheel has been traced back to Sir Isaac Newton, who in 1706 arranged red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet into a natural progression on a rotating disk. As the disk spins, the colors blur together so rapidly that the human eye sees white. Artists have been experimenting with colour wheels ever since...
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- interg12, on 12/12/2007, -1/+10this is a fun post. i love this blog!
- MikeonTV, on 12/12/2007, -3/+1B-E-A-utiful
- EvanVolm, on 12/12/2007, -3/+4Roy G. Biv. Gotta love 'em.
- deose, on 12/12/2007, -6/+5That's cool, oh wait I just remembered, I'M COLORBLIND
- D3koy, on 12/12/2007, -7/+3So the rest of the world has to stop enjoying something becuase you can't enjoy it too? That is incredibly self-centered...
- deose, on 12/12/2007, -0/+1Not at all. Even from my damaged eyes, I can still enjoy this is.
- D3koy, on 12/12/2007, -7/+3So the rest of the world has to stop enjoying something becuase you can't enjoy it too? That is incredibly self-centered...
- supahbaaad, on 12/12/2007, -1/+2it makes me feel......happy :]
- sp111, on 12/12/2007, -7/+1sixth
- Twenty, on 12/12/2007, -1/+4Nice. Dugg especially for color wheel graffiti :)
- funknjunk, on 12/12/2007, -0/+1Yay pretty colours!
- MoneyShot, on 12/12/2007, -5/+2Since white is the absence of color, I doubt that all off them blurred together would look white. Anyone want to confirm?
- OUChevelleSS, on 12/12/2007, -0/+6White is not really the absence per se, it's the reflection on all color wavelengths.
- ZMann, on 12/12/2007, -1/+5white light is the combination of ALL colors of light.
- daliminator, on 12/12/2007, -0/+4I think you're thinking of black, actually.
Your reasoning makes sense in terms of color blending and art, but the underlying nature of color (reflections of wavelengths corresponding to the colors we see) means that when you "combine" colors, you'll perceive reflection of all the wavelengths and see white. - fuzzynyanko, on 12/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah, it gets weird. In art class, you work with paints that absorb colors, but if you use a computer, you are generating/creating colors. So, you have at least two sets of primary colors! If you are generating colors, mixing them together yields white. If you are absorbing colors, they turn to brown or black.
- SpeeZZ, on 12/12/2007, -1/+1The colored pencils one would be hard...
to get them all the exact same... :)
Dugg just for pencils
i like pencils - colorjam, on 12/12/2007, -4/+1THIS is news today... really?
- JudgeMonkey, on 12/12/2007, -0/+1It's in the design section, not the effects-the-world-as-you-know-it section. And despite this article being posted... surprise surprise, so is the latest news.
- MrFisty, on 12/12/2007, -1/+2I just like how the dude is an "independent scholar". Read: jobless bum with an internet connection.
- Ludnix, on 12/12/2007, -0/+1The first picture remind anyone else of "me and you and everyone we know"?
- friedcalamari, on 12/12/2007, -0/+5Someone needs to invent a new color.
- mcduckov, on 12/12/2007, -0/+1Jung wrote about variants of this appearing across all cultures in the human unconscious. I believe he called it the Mandala.
- mmykle, on 12/16/2007, -0/+1Those are nice and all... but a 3.5w laser works better: http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j185/andy_con/la ...
Different angle:
http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j185/andy_con/la ...
And idk if its 3.5w for sure, but the forum i found it on said it was. - trev0006, on 07/15/2008, -0/+1Will have to try this myself with the kids coloring crayons. http://www.discountpartcenter.com/
- ozonew4m, on 11/12/2008, -0/+1I had no idea Sir Isaac Newton was responsible for the first color wheel... Im going to put this on my http://www.color-chart.org blog.. thanks for the info... You learn something new every day.
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