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From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License. Color or colour (see spelling differences) is the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, yellow, blue and others. Color derives from the spectrum of light (distribution of light energy versus wavelength) interacting in the eye with the spectral sensitivities of the light receptors. Color categories and physical specifications of color are also associated with objects, materials, light sources, etc., based on their physical properties such as light absorption, reflection, or emission spectra. By defining a color space, colors can be identified numerically by their coordinates. Because perception of color stems from the varying sensitivity of different types of cone cells in the retina to different parts of the spectrum, colors may be defined and quantified by the degree to which they stimulate these cells. These physical or physiological quantifications of color, however, do not fully explain the psychophysical perception of color appearance. The science of color is sometimes called chromatics. It includes the perception of color by the human eye and brain, the origin of color in materials, color theory in art, and the physics of electromagnetic radiation in the visible range (that is, what we commonly refer to simply as light). From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License What color to paint interior of a rental home with brown carpeting? Q. The landlord says that any paint we use has to be a shade of white.. ie: Pale colors. The color up already is a weird clay color.. rather gross actually. We have a brown shaded carpet..splotches of darker browns and cremes... My fiance prefers blues, I like neutrals and then a splash of color..such as cherry red, or burnt orange. We have a bedroom, living room, and a "reading" room to paint. All are fairly small.. bedroom and "reading" room are 10 X 10 feet..and the living room is 9 x 17 feet, with a weird corner. Our furniture basically matches the flooring. Okay. Bedroom has a western window, and a window directly into the stairwell (durrr)...Fiance likes blackout conditions to sleep in, so color has to be light. I was thinking for an… [cont.] Asked by firewater_tears - Fri Jan 26 02:00:05 2007 - - 19 Answers - 0 Comments A. I understand. Here are just a few suggestions. I used to do this stuff years ago, and this might give you some ideas of how to approach decorating that you might not have thought about before. You can go to any major paint store and get sample of various shades of off-whites and creams. Take a few and see how they fit in with your decor and furniture. (Don't rely on the names of the paints or shades--different manufacturers have different names for exactly the same shade of paint ! ) Then, consider your lighting. To get the exact shade of paint that is right, you should look at the paint samples in the room you intend to paint, and with natural sunlight from windows at various times of the morning, day and afternoon. Are you in a room… [cont.] Answered by JOHN B - Fri Jan 26 02:36:40 2007 What do color-blind people see in place of colors which look alike to them? Q. I am green-and-brown color-blind. When people ask me what I see in place of green and brown, I don't know what to tell them. People with normal color vision can't describe the colors they see and I can't describe the colors I see. So I don't know whether I see both colors as green, both colors as brown, or both colors as a color which is unknown to people of normal color vision. Has science come up with an answer for this? Asked by suhwahaksaeng - Sat Aug 1 03:48:05 2009 - - 6 Answers - 0 Comments A. I LOVE your question! Both my brother and father were green - brown color blind. But I have a son that has a variation including red. Until I worried so badly about my little boy being "vision impaired" the question didn't come much to mind! A not-so-honest doctor diagnosed my son as TOTALLY color blind at age THREE. That was a blow to me to say the least. But I took him to a specialist that said he was "too young" to be even tested correctly. He did some tests and DID say he had some problem with "red." I don't think he was ever tested again. WHY? Because I decided that making an "issue" of it was "not fair to him." He either WAS or he WASN'T but one thing for sure, he was born that way so what he saw he "accepted" and didn't MISS… [cont.] Answered by Bunny7 - Sat Aug 1 04:13:24 2009 What is the best color scheme for my new bedroom?
Q. I am moving into a new home and my bedroom furniture is dark brown in color. (Chaplin bedroom set with Rooms To Go). I really want to paint my bedroom a dark color, but I don't want it to clash too much with my furniture. What color should I paint the room? I don't want it to stay 'white' or 'light' in color. Is there a dark color I can paint my room so that it will still look good? Asked by Sky Cole - Mon Sep 1 18:50:00 2008 - - 7 Answers - 0 Comments A. One of my favorite tools for figuring out color schemes is this website. If you click the create link on the side it will take you to where you can choose a type of color scheme (Analogous, Complementary, ect.) So choose one, and make one of the colors the same as the color of your furniture. Then as you drag the other colors around, the program automatically keeps the colors within the scheme you choose. This could help you figure out other colors that look good with it. Answered by thequietwriter - Mon Sep 1 18:58:42 2008 From Yahoo Answer Search: "color"  news.google.com MarketWatch (press release) Taking on the evil INKT Corporation who has declared " Color is a Crime!" and leeched Chroma City of all its beauty and interest, it's up to de Blob and his ... and more » news.google.com Blogcritics.org (blog) My wife and I were sitting in a private waiting room waiting for the Mohs procedure when I noticed America at War in Color on the table. ... news.google.com Trading Markets (press release) Choosing paint colors is one of the hardest parts of redecorating a space. But many people can't afford to have an interior designer come to their home to ... and more » From Google News Search: "color"  yourhealthupdate.net 375px x 500px | 80.00kB [source page] While most people do not think that color therapy really is that therapy it actually is It is a none invasive and holistic form of healing When you think about it colors are actually  arunachala.org 628px x 953px | 673.90kB [source page] temple pdf 17 MB pdf These two are from other places color image b w image  rumraket.com 600px x 600px | 227.50kB [source page] Web res photo Mosaic pic color Ice pic b w From Yahoo Image Search: "color"  droidforums.net thebowers Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:44:15 GM There seems to be a lot of people wanting to change the . color. of notification text to go with the changing of the clock . color. . I struggled with this.  bathroomdecortips.com amabatdec Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:46:50 GM A common difficulty homeowners have in the process of decorating their home is determining what . colors. will work best in an individual room's decor. As a.  xforce.ws reef Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:46:21 GM Window boxes bring the garden into the home. Through the windows you can often see beautiful flowers and plants farther from home, but May. From Google Blog Search: "color" See also:
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