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Page 120
... we have passed to orange , From orange we pass to yellow , then to green , blue , and purple . If we use several hundred different colours , the differences between successive ones will be almost imperceptible . We note that beyond 120.
... we have passed to orange , From orange we pass to yellow , then to green , blue , and purple . If we use several hundred different colours , the differences between successive ones will be almost imperceptible . We note that beyond 120.
Page 121
... purple the colours become reddish until we 8 R FIG . 86. - System of the Brightest Colours and the Tints . TINTS W ... purple . The term " violet " is often used instead of purple , but this is not re- commended . The greys ( Fig . 85 ) ...
... purple the colours become reddish until we 8 R FIG . 86. - System of the Brightest Colours and the Tints . TINTS W ... purple . The term " violet " is often used instead of purple , but this is not re- commended . The greys ( Fig . 85 ) ...
Page 125
... purple 433 The figures indicate millimicrons . Fig . 86 is so con- structed that complementary colours lie at the opposite ends of lines drawn through W and at such distances . from Was indicate the amounts of each hue required for the ...
... purple 433 The figures indicate millimicrons . Fig . 86 is so con- structed that complementary colours lie at the opposite ends of lines drawn through W and at such distances . from Was indicate the amounts of each hue required for the ...
Page 126
... purple give all the intermediate purples ; these colours lie along the straight line at the bottom of the same curve . Red and green give all the variations through orange and yellow , but they are all whitish ; they lie along a ...
... purple give all the intermediate purples ; these colours lie along the straight line at the bottom of the same curve . Red and green give all the variations through orange and yellow , but they are all whitish ; they lie along a ...
Page 127
... purple . These fundamental sensations find places in the colour diagram at the corners of the large triangle in Fig . 94 . AAB Red Green White Blue FIG . 94. - The Colour Triangle . The combinations of pigments , such as paints , often ...
... purple . These fundamental sensations find places in the colour diagram at the corners of the large triangle in Fig . 94 . AAB Red Green White Blue FIG . 94. - The Colour Triangle . The combinations of pigments , such as paints , often ...
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Page 181 - ... probably never in all their lives received one genuine colour-sensation. The modern religionists of the school of Overbeck are just like people who eat slate-pencil and chalk, and assure everybody that they are nicer and purer than strawberries and plums.
Page 5 - I have noticed in one of my formicaria a subterranean cemetery, where I have seen some ants burying their dead by placing earth above them. One ant was evidently much affected, and tried to exhume the bodies, but the united exertions of the yellow sextons were more than sufficient to neutralise the effort of the disconsolate mourner.