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THE COLOUR

This is the impression that the eye detects when daylight falle on coloured objects around us.

Daylight conai3ta of the raixture of colours that can be 6e«n in a rainbow (Red - Orange Yellow - Green - Blue - Violet).

Example!

a coloured object (such as an orange) when illuminated by daylight, absorbs all these colours and reflects back just its own (Orange) and this ts the one seen by the eye of the observer.

THE CHROHATIC CIRCLE

The chrpinatic circle is a simplified representation of all these colours. The centre of the circle appears as colorimetric black.

PRIMARY COLOURS

These cannot be obtained by mixing.

SECOHDARY COLOURS

These are obtained by nuxing cwo primary colours.

RED + YELLOW “ ORANGE RED + BLUE = YIOLKT BLUE + YELLOW = GREEK