Modern chromatics, with applications to art and industry (1879)
Rood, Ogden N. (Ogden Nicholas), 1831-1902 · New York, D. Appleton and Company · leaf 237
APPENDIX TO CHAPTER XIV. 231 may differ considerably ; they will, in point of fact, relatively to each other, have equal saturating powers. We next lay down on the circumference at Y a certain amount of pure yellow light, draw the diameter Y B, Eig. 105, and at B locate an amount of blue light … just sufficient to neutralize it, arranging matters so that the yellow and blue light when mixed shall reproduce a white identical in luminosity with that furnished by the mixture of the red and green- blue. The yellow and blue will differ greatly in luminosity, but, as they neutralize each other,…
Color · Painting · Color in art
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