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  2. Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – The Morning after the ...

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    The plus addresses the colours red and yellow which are intended to evoke "buoyant" feelings, while the colour blue contrasts, creating the emotion of melancholy and desolation. [3] According to Goethe's concept, yellow undergoes a transition of light becoming darker when light reaches its peak; just as the Sun shines in the sky, it develops ...

  3. Theory of Colours - Wikipedia

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    Light spectrum, from Theory of Colours – Goethe observed that colour arises at the edges, and the spectrum occurs where these coloured edges overlap.. Theory of Colours (German: Zur Farbenlehre) is a book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe about the poet's views on the nature of colours and how they are perceived by humans.

  4. On Vision and Colours - Wikipedia

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    The retina's activity is disorganized from over-stimulation. A dazzled eye sees red when looking at brightness and green when looking into darkness. The retina's activity is forcefully divided by the powerful stimulation. When the eye strains to see in dim light, the retina is voluntarily activated and intensively divided.

  5. Color psychology - Wikipedia

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    Feelings of joy and sadness were strongly associated with the brightness, value, saturation, chroma and lightness of the game being played. The greater the color saturation was in the video game, the more strongly felt these emotions were among the players. Less color saturation in the video game predicted higher feelings of fear. [88]

  6. On Colors - Wikipedia

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    The water in the plants turns green when hit with rays of the sun and the older parts of the plants blacken a little from age. Pseudo-Aristotle, de Coloribus 5.1 [ 2 ] However, the shoots and roots which remain underground do not receive sunlight light so instead of turning green they remain white which is the base color of plants before any ...

  7. Opponent process - Wikipedia

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    Goethe arranged his color wheel symmetrically "for the colours diametrically opposed to each other in this diagram are those which reciprocally evoke each other in the eye. Thus, yellow demands purple; orange, blue; red, green; and vice versa: Thus again all intermediate gradations reciprocally evoke each other." [9] [10]

  8. Chromesthesia - Wikipedia

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    Green, red, blue, yellow sounds reached me in perfectly distinguishable waves". [21] Gautier made a sketch of Gustave Moreau playing the piano, where he depicted his chromesthetic experiences as lines of color above the instrument.

  9. Impossible color - Wikipedia

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    The human eye's red-to-green and blue-to-yellow values of each one-wavelength visible color [citation needed] Human color sensation is defined by the sensitivity curves (shown here normalized) of the three kinds of cone cells: respectively the short-, medium- and long-wavelength types.