Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Colour and Colours

We are in a world where colours dominate our lives, from reading signs on the road to seeing if fruit is ripe to eat.
It affects our moods - blue is calming - red can make us tense.
We use and experience colours everyday in our lives, but what is it?


What is colour

Colour is simply light of different wavelengths and frequencies and light is just one form of energy that we can actually see that is made up from photons.

We are all surrounded by electromagnetic waves of energy of which colour is just a small part.

The visible spectrum of colour as we see it, consists of seven main colours:

We can see seven main colours of the Visible

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