Student's text-book of color ; or, Modern Chromatics, with applications to art and industry (1908)
Rood, Ogden N. (Ogden Nicholas), 1831-1902 · New York : D. Appleton and company · leaf 244
ous proceeding we can cause a sur- face which properly has no colour of its own, which is real- ly grey, to appear tinted red, blue, green, etc. These changes and others of a like character are produced by what is called contrast, and are partly due to actual effects generated in the eye itself and… … cured Image. this purpose it will be well for the reader to repeat some of the simple experiments described below. If we place a small piece of bright-green paper on a sheet of grey drawing-paper, in the manner indicated in Fig. 108, and then for several seconds attentively look at the small cross…
Color · Painting
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