Fundamentals - Colour - Our Perception of Colour

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What is colour temperature?

Mainly the association that comes with a certain colour. Blue is a cold colour, reminiscent of sadness or ice, whereas red is a warm colour, making us think of fire and love.

What is optical colour?

The colour that we see when we struggle to distinguish the boundaries between two colours, like when putting hundreds of red dots in between hundreds of blue dots (which appears to us as purple if they're close enough). These colours seem to vibrate.

What does it mean to say that colour temperature is relative?

If we see a cool colour next to a cooler colour, it might appear warm.

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