Therefore it had little influence on art until much later.Īround the turn of the century, Albert H. Unfortunately, he didn’t work out a practical system for applying his theory. In 1866 a scientist named Helmholz discovered that every color has three different qualities, or dimensions: hue, value, and intensity. When we add these three primaries together we get black. The primaries of the subtractive spectrum are magenta, yellow, and cyan (CMY). When we add these three primaries together we get white.Ĭolor theorists use the subtractive primaries to explain color filters and printing. The three primary colors of the additive spectrum are red, green, and blue. Since Young’s discovery, red, green, and blue have been considered the primary colors of light. Physicist Thomas Young carried Newton’s experiments further by discovering that just three of Newton’s colors when mixed together makes white light: red, green, and blue (RGB). He assigned to the light, seven basic colors: red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, indigo, and purple. From these experiments, Newton concluded that light is the source of color. Newton showed this to be false by passing the light through a second prism, which reassembled the colored light into white light. Before Newton’s time, people thought that some sort of ‘latent color’ embeds in the glass of the prism. He passed a beam of sunlight through a glass prism, which showed the colors seen in the rainbow. The platform used to understand color comes from the great physicist Isaac Newton’s prism experiments. Scientists prepared the way for the development of color theory. Tests prove that is accomplished by a subtraction of the cyan and magenta leaving yellow in our brain color center. For instance a red and green light added together will make a yellow light.
We actually see all color transparent or opaque through a subtraction of the CMY in our brain. The cones actually act like switches and send the coded light signal to the cortex of the brain and subtract from the CMY code. Energy is always on between the cones of the eyes and the cortex of the brain. The magenta with the medium ray and the yellow with the short ray. Matter is composed of various percentages of CMY that is under a physics law that says this: Whenever it is exposed to light, the cyan must absorb like amounts of the long ray of light, and reflect the rest to the cones of the eye. Light has long medium, and short rays that are colorless energy. The big difference is that it is based on color being assigned to the brains cortex with its primaries as (CMY). The new color theory shown on these web pages comes from years of research with prisms and computers. There has been much confusion written on this subject. Today we call light the RGB additive theory and the CMY subtractive theory for opaque objects. Physicist Young refined it when he defined lights primaries as red, green, and blue (RGB). The traditional color theory is based on Isaac Newton’s belief that the color is in the light. In order to talk about color theory one needs a platform to base the color theory fundamentals on. So for those doubting Thomases and anyone who is interested, I have decided to publish my 27 years of research on color theory on the web. And then there is this one critique on the web by a person who said nice things about my book but said I was wrong on my color theory and didn’t understand the true color theory.
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This was just as I was saying that I believed that we see all color from subtraction of the CMY code in our brain. However, I can still hear that voice that blurted out during one of my lectures with “You’re crazy”. Especially from artist who have read my book and from the art instructors from the lectures I gave at four major art schools. I have had many compliments on this new color theory that I stumbled across 27 years ago.
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