Molecular make-up?
Color mapping, Part 3 My road to how I taught myself color theory and how to mix paint. Example of CMYK to make black So I introduced the subtractive color theory model in the last color mapping post. The subtractive color theory model states that as you mix your primary colors, red, yellow & blue, together in equal parts that they become darker. To clarify this more we need go back to our school days of science and talk about energy and matter. All objects are made up of matter, which are in turn a grouping of atoms that contain energy. Light contains energy which is compatible with the energy in surfaces of objects, which absorbs the energy of the light. The molecular make-up of the object will determine what light energy is absorbed and what is reflecting back, which is the color that you see. If a surface absorbs all of the light energy then it will reflect none of the lights energy and the surface will appear black. The energy that is absorbe...