We live in a colorful world. In many countries, colors represent various holidays; they are also used to express feelings and enliven language.

After the final group presentation I was so eager to do a little research on colours. Here are few pictures i wound while doing my research. From my point of view all those pictures down look very fascinating ad beautiful. Colours express alot of feelings which makes the surrounding happy as well as sad! 

Colour pencils set according to the colour wheel.

Paint!

Peacock feather too has beautiful colours

Balloons!

A jar full of colourful jelly!

Pebbles! The more it looks colourful the more you are eager to eat them.Yummy! :D

Easter Eggs painted with pretty colours!

An oil paint done by Leonid Afremor!

Another oil paint done by Leonid Afremor. Epic!

Painting done by a French Artist Francoise Nielly.

A colourful rangoli :) 

Group Assignment:Color Theory ( Building a Zoetrope) Part III (Final Day/Presentation)

Last Monday was our Presentation Day for Color Theory. We were all in our Design Lab by 8 am and getting sorted out whether everything was placed correctly and ready to present it to the others.

We all did our work with so much of effort and it ended up well as we wanted it to be. Not only my group but the other groups aswell. All did a great job and our lecturer Ms. Lisa was pleased with our work. everyone were really happy with what they did. So did I. I was not well but yes I did help my group to sort out with everything and did the drum. Animation was done by Aina, Annabel and Hidaya. Atiqah, Jin Han and I did the drum.

Here are some pictures which was taken at our presentation. :)

                                     Annabel, Me, Hidaya and Ms. Lisa holding on to
                                               Annabel's animation reel.

                                     One of our group member made rice dumpling dolls
                                      that was sewed according to the colour wheel and it
                                    represented each of the member in our group.
                                      By the way I am the purple one. :P :)

                Everyone waiting for Ms. Lisa

                                        Mr.Charles also came to look at models.

                                      Jamie's group did the balloon tunnel.

                                           The other part of the balloon tunnel.

                                             Model done by Jean's group.

                                          Fariz's group prsented cupcakes! :)

Group assignment: Colour Theory ( Building a Zoetrope) Part II

Here are some shots taken while making our zoetrope! 

 The Lazy Susane which we used as a spinner

                                   

   Materials which we used to construct the Zoetrope.

                     

The drum                                                 

Group Assignment : Colour Wheel (Building a Zoetrope)

For color theory, we were asked to build a large 3D model relevant to the colour wheel. My group, after several discussions came up with an idea to create a zoetrope,where the animations were  based on colour wheel,which was a quite interesting model to be made.

My group members were Annabel, Aina, Atiqah, Jie Han, Hidaya and myself. :)

Everyone must be wondering what a zoetrope would look like! So here we go, let's see How does a zoetrope look like and how does it work.

Zoetrope

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Not to be confused with Zoopraxiscope.

For other uses, see Zoetrope (disambiguation).

A modern replica of a Victorian zoetrope

A zoetrope is a device that produces the illusion of motion from a rapid succession of static pictures. The term zoetrope is from the Greek words ζωή(zoē), meaning "alive, active", and τροπή (tropē), meaning "turn", with "zoetrope" taken to mean "active turn" or "wheel of life".

The zoetrope consists of a cylinder with slits cut vertically in the sides. On the inner surface of the cylinder is a band with images from a set of sequenced pictures. As the cylinder spins, the user looks through the slits at the pictures across. The scanning of the slits keeps the pictures from simply blurring together, and the user sees a rapid succession of images, producing the illusion of motion.

Animation for the Zoetrope

Rule Of Thirds: Assignment 4

Color Theory Part 2

What can be said in general about warm colors?
The warm colors are red,orange and yellow. Warm colors are bright and vivid. In art, warm colors are often used to make something stand out and draw attention. Emotions or things when you see warm colors are the sun, fire and anger.

What can be said in general about cool colors?

The cool colors are green, blue and purple. Cool colors are calm and smoothing. In art, cool colors can be used as background. Emotions or things when you see cool colors are  the ocean, water, winter , calm

Which color is associated with stability?
I think it is Blue which is associated with stability.As in blue color conveys importance and confidence without being somber or sinister, hence the power suit of the corporate world and the uniforms of many police officers.

Which color symbolizes royalty? 

Purple is royalty. A mysterious color, it is associated with both nobility and spirituality. 

Which is the color of cleanliness?

White is the color of cleanliness and coolness in advertising because it's the color of snow. It usually has a positive connotation. White can represent a successful beginning.  

Which color symbolism freshness?

the color which symbolizes freshness is green. Abundant in nature, green signifies growth,renewal,health and environment. 

Which colors are associated with joy?

Yellow, Light- yellow, Light-red, Orange are colors associated with joy. They produce a warming effect,arouse cheerfulness, stimulates mental activity and generate muscle energy.

Which color symbolizes passion and danger? 

Red symbolizes passion for love and danger.Flashing red lights denotes danger or emergency. Stops signs and stop lights are red to get driver's attention and alert them to the  dangers of the intersection. 

Color Theory

Definition:

HUE
Hue defines pure color in terms of green, red or magenta. Hue also defines mixtures of two pure colors like red-yellow (orange), or yellow-green.
Hue is usually one property of three when used to determine a certain color. 
Hue is a more technical definition of our color perception which can be used to communicate color ideas. 

VALUE
Value is the lightness or darkness of a colour. the more white you add to a colour or hue,the lighter the value. When you add white to lighten a colour, it is called tint.The more black you add to a color, the darker the value. When you add black to a color to darken it, the resultant colour is then called a shade. If you add gray to a color,it  results in a tone.

SATURATION
Saturation is a color term commonly used by (digital / analog) imaging experts. 
Saturation is usually one property of three when used to determine a certain color and measured as percentage value. 
Saturation defines a range from pure colour (100%) to gray(0%) at a constant lightness level. A pure color is fully saturated. 
From a perceptional point of view saturation influence the grade pf purity or vividness  of a color/image. A desaturated image is said to be dull, less colorful or washed out but can also make the impression of being softer. 
 

SECONDARY COLOURS
Secondary colours are made by mixing equal parts of primary colours. For instance, green is a secondary colour made by mixing blue and yellow. Orange comes from mixing yellow and blue. Violet results from mixing blue and red. These colours are less strong than primaries., but they are more pleasing when mixed with white to a make a tint.

TERTIARY COLOURS  

Tertiary colours are formed by mixing two secondary colors. for instance, combining green and orange make a wheat colour , while orange and violet make brick. Tertiary colours are sophisticated and add wonderful variety to a colour scheme.

COMPLEMENTARY COLORS

Complementary colours are those which are opposite to each other on the colour wheel. Complements are red and green, blue and orange, or yellow and violet. Complementary colours neutralize each other when mixed together in equal amounts - making neutral grey. When a small amount of one colour is mixed into its complement, the resulting colour is a less intense, more pleasing version of that colour.

ANALOGOUS COLOURS

Colours that are related to each other are analogous. They are neighbors on the colour wheel and share a common colour. For example: blue-violet,violet and red-violet. They all contain red. The violet( a secondary colour) has been made by mixing red and blue ( both primary colours). The blue-violet and red-violet (both tertiary colours) have been made by mixing the secondary colour (violet) with the primary colours included in it's name.
They are analogous or relatives, because they all contain red. 

TINT

Tint is a color term commonly used by painters. A tint is a mixing resultant of an original color to which has been added white. If you tinted a color, you've been adding white to the original color. 

A tint is lighter than the original color. 

SHADE

A shade is a mixing resultant of an original color to which has been added black. If you shaded a colour, you've been adding black to the original colour. A shade is darker than the original colour. 
When used as a dimension of a colour space, shade can be the amount added to an original colour. In such a colour space pure colour would be non-shaded.

NEUTRAL

Neutral means usually white. Neutral colours such as beige, ivory, taupe, black, gray and white appear to be without color, and yet in many applications these hues often have undertones of color.