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The Complete Color Harmony, Pantone Edition
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The Complete Color Harmony, Pantone Edition

by Leatrice Eiseman
September 2017
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
216 pages
5h 30m
English
Rockport Publishers
Content preview from The Complete Color Harmony, Pantone Edition

ImageTHE PHENOMENON OF COLOR

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Light is the source of all color and our sense of sight functions only when light reaches the eye. There is no perceptible color without natural or artificial light. Poetically put, light is the messenger and color is the message.

To see fine details precisely, the eye contains a lens that can focus light onto the sensitive cells within the retina, triggering nerve impulses connected to the brain, where a visual image is formed. There are two types of light sensitive cells called rods and cones. Rods work in dim light, while ...

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ISBN: 9781631594441