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		<title>Color and the intangible</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2012 11:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the 1690s Sir Isaac Newton’s experiments with prisms showed that the colors of the spectrum are contained in white light. Therefore, when we see colour we are also ‘seeing’ light – an invisible, intangible substance that otherwise lies beyond &#8230; <a href="http://www.stamendesign.com/color-and-the-intangible/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the 1690s Sir Isaac Newton’s experiments with prisms showed that the colors of the spectrum are contained in white light. Therefore, when we see colour we are also ‘seeing’ light – an invisible, intangible substance that otherwise lies beyond the boundaries of ordinary sensory perception. </p>
<p>In subsequent centuries color has been subject to a number of different investigative approaches ranging through the physical, optical, psychological, technical, and philosophical but it still remains an essentially elusive substance, defying neat definitions and all en-compassing theories. This research has taken the work of four artists – Duncan Bullen, Jane Bustin, Rebecca Partridge, and Richard Kenton Webb, and used it as a starting point that reveals insights into the nature of color, not only as a mysterious and elusive substance, but also as something that allows the intangible and invisible to become present.<br />
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Seen close up, the subtly tinted surfaces of Duncan Bullen’s drawings are covered with a grid of dynamic dots made by silverpoint and coloured pencil. But from a distance the evidence of their intensely concentrated manufacture dissolves into a mesmerising, shimmering surface that gives form to light. Looking up on color and its representation its like looking at future, which in some substances we could seek it with <a href="http://www.womenweb.de/horoskope-und-astrologie.html" target="_blank">Astrologie</a>. As for coloration itself, each color might be fixed, but each color have its derivatives.</p>
<p>Color in Jane Bustin’s paintings has no form to give it meaning, and as a result our eyes are forced to rest in its inner depths. Lost in the timeless space of Superblack we are not only made aware of our sense of vision, but all of our other senses as well. Rebecca Partridge’s dynamic canvases offer an intensely coloured realisation of syn-aesthetic experience. They also evoke the invisible bridge of potential colour that is contained in the electromagnetic waves of light that bridge the space between, linking the ‘self’ with the ‘other’, the ‘micro’ and the ‘macro’. </p>
<p>Richard Kenton Webb’s intense paintings and delicate plaster sculptures are an investigation of the colour red that forms part of a larger ‘colour sound’ project. Not only does his use of his own hand made pigments allow us to explore the unique character of each colour, but the subtle forms that lie at their heart provide a tentative form for the distinctive sense of ‘movement’ that he associates with each colour. These works propose new ways of seeing the world and understanding reality, allowing colour to be a figuring of light; a representation of the intangible.</p>
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		<title>Colors in Landscape and Building</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 09:19:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rural landscape makes a significant contribution to the material and financial wealth of the nation. Color makes a significant contribution to our perception of scenic beauty and our psychological wellbeing. In rural landscapes, large patterns of natural color are &#8230; <a href="http://www.stamendesign.com/colors-in-landscape-and-building/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The rural landscape makes a significant contribution to the material and financial wealth of the nation. Color makes a significant contribution to our perception of scenic beauty and our psychological wellbeing.</p>
<p>In rural landscapes, large patterns of natural color are punctuated with point sources of applied color in new buildings and engineering structures, including wind turbines.<br />
• What applied colors should be advocated?<br />
• How significant is the landscape color pattern and its changeable nature?<br />
• Is there a theoretical basis for the choice of applied color, or is it a matter of individual preference?<br />
• Does it matter who chooses the colors?<br />
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The Design Council responded to the debate with three publications in the 1970s. How far is such advice still relevant, with colors of buildings and landscapes changing dramatically? The color of the farmed landscape is changing, with large areas of new crops grown, and changed almost annually. Will the rules or guidance also change?</p>
<p>It is possible that color choice is important depending on the preference value of the landscape. For poor quality landscapes, applied color should emphasis the source, but for high quality landscapes should be subordinate to the landscape. Check out <a href="http://www.heavenlyhearts.com.au/" target="_blank">Russian Marriage Agency</a>, its taking place in one of architectural building and being used as community services.</p>
<p>The research proposed has a wider methodological aim – to address the subject from both holistic and reductionist standpoints: the former avoiding reduction of the landscape to a sum of its parts, the latter illuminating the relationship between objects, colours and areas of significance.</p>
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		<title>Color and Intangible</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2012 01:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the 1690s Sir Isaac Newton’s experiments with prisms showed that the colours of the spectrum are contained in white light. Therefore, when we see colour we are also ‘seeing’ light – an invisible, intangible substance that otherwise lies beyond &#8230; <a href="http://www.stamendesign.com/color-and-intangible/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the 1690s Sir Isaac Newton’s experiments with prisms showed that the colours of the spectrum are contained in white light. Therefore, when we see colour we are also ‘seeing’ light – an invisible, intangible substance that otherwise lies beyond the boundaries of ordinary sensory perception. In subsequent centuries colour has been subject to a number of different investigative approaches ranging through the physical, optical, psychological, technical, and hilosophical but it still remains an essentially elusive substance, defying neat definitions and llencompassing theories. </p>
<p>This research has taken the work of four artists – Duncan Bullen, Jane Bustin, Rebecca Partridge, and Richard Kenton Webb, and used it as a starting point that reveals insights into the nature of colour, not only as a mysterious and elusive substance, but also as something that allows the intangible and invisible to become present.<br />
<span id="more-393"></span><br />
Seen close up, the subtly tinted surfaces of Duncan Bullen’s drawings are covered with a grid of dynamic dots made by silverpoint and coloured pencil. But from a distance the evidence of their intensely concentrated manufacture dissolves into a mesmerising, shimmering surface that gives form to light. Colour in Jane Bustin’s paintings has no form to give it meaning, and as a result our eyes are forced to rest in its inner depths.</p>
<p>Lost in the timeless space of Superblack we are not only made aware of our sense of vision, but all of our other senses as well. Rebecca Partridge’s dynamic canvases offer an intensely coloured realisation of synaesthetic experience. They also evoke the invisible bridge of potential colour that is contained in the electromagnetic waves of light that bridge the space between, linking the ‘self’ with the ‘other’, the ‘micro’ and the ‘macro’. <a href="http://freeshippingworldwide.org/beautive/" target="_blank">http://freeshippingworldwide.org/beautive/</a>.</p>
<p>Richard Kenton Webb’s intense paintings and delicate plaster sculptures are an investigation of the colour red that forms part of a larger ‘colour sound’ project. Not only does his use of his own hand made pigments allow us to explore the unique character of each colour, but the subtle forms that lie at their heart provide a tentative form for the distinctive sense of ‘movement’ that he associates with each colour. These works propose new ways of seeing the world and understanding reality, allowing colour to be a figuring of light; a representation of the intangible.</p>
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		<title>Pigment Color</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 23:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A description is given of James Clerk Maxwell’s strategy, in his early study of the additive mixing of light from colored samples. He used the scattered daylight from known areas of card coated with artists’ pigments. Vermilion, emerald green and &#8230; <a href="http://www.stamendesign.com/pigment-color/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A description is given of James Clerk Maxwell’s strategy, in his early study of the additive mixing of light from colored samples. He used the scattered daylight from known areas of card coated with artists’ pigments. Vermilion, emerald green and ultramarine were the optimum choice of standards for red, green and blue, respectively.</p>
<p>They suited Thomas Young’s description of color vision. Maxwell’s design of an analogue device – his ‘color top’ – for varying the areas of the contributing pigments was remarkably simple. His meticulous observations with it allowed him to substantially further the understanding of perception of color at the time, mid-19th century. The interpretation of a few very basic spectroscopic measurements on sunlight reflected from pigments are in line with Maxwell’s conclusions.<br />
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Maxwell’s earliest research on the perception of color used daylight reflected from artists’ pigments. By observing in broadly repeatable ambient conditions, he was able to identify regularities in the perception of combinations of light reflected from the range of colors provided by these pigments. <a href="http://www.xtspy.com/" target="_blank">cell phone spy software</a>.</p>
<p>He was guided in his design of equipment and strategy by the description of Thomas Young of the most likely structure of those light sensitive detectors in the human eye – cells called ‘cones’ because of their shape – which are sensitive to color. Colored image production, especially projected images but also in color photography, owes much to Maxwell’s researches. So does the use of color in the design of objects across the whole range of manufacturing industry, and in the design of light sources.</p>
<p>Yet a further extension was to match the tints when observing them through coloured glass and under different illuminations. Of the latter, there were only two of any use – ‘day-light’ and ‘gaslight (Edinburgh)’. The proportions of the pigments had to be readjusted each time. Maxwell commented that all ‘these experiments are really evidence relating to the constitution of eye, and not mere comparisons of two things which are in themselves identical.</p>
<p>By contrast, red, yellow and blue are the primary colors of artists. Light from a patch painted as any mixture of red, yellow and blue pigments is intercepted by the eye as a single beam whose spectrum is interpreted by the eye as a single color. The color for artists’ pigments so mixed is called ‘subtractive’: the color we see is the response to composite light having those wavelengths not absorbed by the pigment mix.</p>
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		<title>Color representation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 21:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vision is the term used to describe the ability of the eye to respond to electromagnetic radiation. By definition, light is that part of the electromagnetic spectrum that stimulates the retina of the (human) eye, and the brain, then associates &#8230; <a href="http://www.stamendesign.com/color-representation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Vision is the term used to describe the ability of the eye to respond to electromagnetic radiation. By definition, light is that part of the electromagnetic spectrum that stimulates the retina of the (human) eye, and the brain, then associates different colors with different wavelengths of the light. Typically, the human eye has the ability to resolve wavelengths extending from the ultra-violet (around 380 nm) to the infrared region of the visible spectrum (around 740 nm). </p>
<p>Even so, color is subjective because the sensitivity to different wavelengths varies significantly between individuals, implying that each person sees a slightly different image when receiving the light scattered or reflected from an object. For the average subject, however, the sensitivity of the normal human eye varies in an approximately Gaussian fashion in daylight, reaching a maximum in the green region of the spectrum. Typically, thousands of different colors can be distinguished. However, modern optical devices show even greater sensitivity and better discrimination between wavelengths than this.<br />
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In simple terms, a colored image, for example, captured on a digital camera, is stored as an array of small colored dots (or pixels). These colored dots are represented, first as an electrical charge on the imaging device in response to the characteristics of the incident light, before being transmitted to the digital computer, where both the color and position of the pixels within the image are stored numerically.</p>
<p>Similarly, the number and range of possible colors that can be represented digitally has risen steadily as the numerical precision of digital computers has increased, and corresponding improvements have been made to display monitors and color printers. Again, these factors were discussed in the earlier paper. Many colorful items use could be found in many different resources, check out <a href="http://www.postallads4free.com/" target="_blank">postallads4free.com</a> as one of sources to view many variety of colors and many other related ads.</p>
<p>In modern measurement systems, a PC is typically used to capture and store the data in digital form. The sensor signals can then be converted from the original input (say a temperature or pressure) into a voltage. These voltage values are then interpreted through detailed analysis, or the observed signals might need to be converted into another form, for example, back into the original pressures or temperatures. </p>
<p>Specialized software also allows the data to be analyzed, for example, to determine how the intensity of the scattered light varies with the wavelength. These advances have revolutionized experimental study, greatly extending the range of properties that can be measured, and enabling better methods of analysis and presentation to be adopted.</p>
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