Color Interaction

The color interation project was a good exercise on changing the perception of how a color looks. I was able to accomplish this change of perception by focusing on three aspects; value, color/subtraction, and compliments.

The seven pieces varied from being very challenging to easy to work with. For instance problem 3 was my biggest chalenge, it took me the longest to achieve getting the two colors in the middle to look alike. Problem 4 was the easiest challenge, where I simply focused on getting two color that constrasted with each other and are each others compliment. This however strained my eyes the most where I learned that by stairing at the small black dot in the middle for 30 seconds burns your retna. When you look at a white sheet of paper with a small black dot after the 30 seconds you will then see the outlining and color variation of your original piece.

I had no idea on the different ways of changing colors that tricks the human eye. I gained a deeper understanding of changing color perception, this is first step of mastering optical illusions. The Bezold effect is the perfect example that i worked on that creates an optical illusion. It was named after Wihelm von Bezold, a German proffesor of meterolog (Wikipedia).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bezold_Effect