Exploring Color Theory with Blender

Using Blender, an open-source 3D rendering application, to explore colorimetry.

iPhone 5 Color

Taking a few quick color measurements of the new iPhone

Crayons under the spectrophotometer

Making spectral power distribution graphs of a box a crayons.

Estimating Color Gamut Volume

Using the Monte Carlo method to resolve conflicting information about color gamut volumes.

The scientific misconduct of Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo's fake color experiment and the difference between additive and subtractive color.

Planck’s Despair

Computing the chromaticity coordinates of the Planckian Locus and computing color temperature using just a smidgen of calculus.

Deconstructing Chromaticity

We are going to geek out on color theory today. If you've spent anytime at all around digital color, you've certainly seen the above diagram. It's called a chromaticity diagram

Whither Gamut?

Have you ever wondered why monitors have limited gamuts in the first place? Why can't they be made to simply reproduce all colors.

Some Notes on Saturation

The tools we use effect us more than we like to admit. We are so accustomed to working on computers that we tend to forget that the interface of a modern operating system is little more than a set of visual metaphors.

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