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Everything about Color mixing
Producing colors by combining the primary or secondary colors in different amounts
There are three types of color mixing models, depending on the relative brightness of the resultant mixture: additive, subtractive, and average. In these models, mixing black and white will yield white, black, and gray, respectively. Physical mixing processes, e.g. mixing light beams or oil paints, will follow one or a hybrid of these 3 models. Each mixing model is associated with several color models, depending on the approximate primary colors used. The most common color models are optimized to human trichromatic color vision, therefore comprising three primary colors. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Color mixingA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Structural Color Mixing in Microcapsules through Exclusive Crystallization of Binary and Ternary ColloidsInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Autobiography of an Ex-Colored ManThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Polarization-dependent high-order two-color mixingCited 387 times
- Go sideways: Subtractive colorA closely related topic
- Go sideways: CyanA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Polarization-dependent high-order two-color mixing
Precise Dimming and Color Control of LED Systems Based on Color Mixing
Dual‐color mixing for fused deposition modeling printers
Dismt - Determination of mixing time through color changes
Review of Dichoptic Color Mixing
Polymer powders mixing part II: Multi-component mixing dynamics using RGB color analysis
Experiments on subtractive color mixing with a spectrophotometer
Mixing of color signals by turtle cone photoreceptors
🆕 Influential since 2022
Structural Color Mixing in Microcapsules through Exclusive Crystallization of Binary and Ternary Colloids
Multifunctional 3D food printer with quad-screw nozzle for four-color printing and dual ink mixing
Enhancing the efficiency of high-order harmonics with two-color non-collinear wave mixing in silica
Impact of color and mixing proportion of synthetic point clouds on semantic segmentation
Research on full color gamut mixing model constructed by CNC spinning and Stearns-Noechel color prediction method
📚 Books worth reading
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored ManJames Weldon Johnson · 1900
The house behind the cedarsCharles Waddell Chesnutt · 1900
PassingNella Larsen, Matthew Hodgson · 1929
The color of waterJames McBride · 1995
Black Is Brown Is TanArnold Adoff · 1973
The colors of usKaren Katz · 1999
Burdened by raceMohamed Adhikari · 2009
Blue and Yellow Don't Make GreenMichael Wilcox, Michael Wilcox · 1990
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
🔗 Related topics
- Subtractive color Subtractive color or subtractive color mixing predicts the spectral power distribution of light after it passes through successive layers of partially…
- Cyan Cyan (/ˈsaɪ.ən, -æn/) is the color between blue and green on the visible spectrum of light. It is evoked by light with a predominant wavelength between…
- Color model In color science, a color model is an abstract mathematical model describing the way colors can be represented as tuples of numbers, typically as three…
- Secondary color A secondary color is a color made by mixing two primary colors of a given color model in even proportions. Combining one secondary color and a primary…
- Additive color Additive color or additive mixing is a property of a color model that predicts the appearance of colors made by coincident component lights, i.e. the perceived…
- CMYK color model The CMYK color model is a subtractive color model used in color printing as well as describing the printing process. The abbreviation CMYK refers to the…
- Magenta Magenta is a purplish-pink color. On color wheels of the RGB and CMYK color models, it is located directly midway between blue and red. It is one of the…
- Color theory Color theory, or more specifically traditional color theory, is a historical body of knowledge describing the behavior of colors — namely in color mixing…