Color Physics @Hampshire, Day 3

February 3, 2017 /

Topics

  • Saturation, hue, and brightness
  • Additive Color Mixing

We started Day 3 by playing with the HSB sliders on a computer software to determine which properties of perceived color are referred to as hue, saturation, and brightness.

Hue, Saturation, and Brightness sliders
Playing with Hue, Saturation, and Brightness sliders to find out how they affect the color

After using the hand-held spectrometers to investigate the spectrum of a computer screen, cellphone screens, and the video projector, students made predictions about how brightness, saturation, and hue may be affected by mixing different amounts of red, green, and blue light and tested their predictions using primary color light sticks.

Making a prediction about color mixing and testing them.
Mixing light with primary colors and investigating how digital images recored by a cellphone differ from what is seen by the naked eye.