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PRIME:  CONCLUSION

       Our notion of colour and light, would appear to be affected by a large number of significant factors, and especially, personal experience.   I have explored a primary basis of that thinking, and an attitude, which I believe is of fundamental importance for the artist.   While I may not advocate, that one be caught up, and bound by rigid ideas and formulas, it can be argued from the outset, that a little knowledge of " best " science may be helpful, as a starting point in the " illusionist‘s " journey of discovery.   While we appear to arrive at a better understanding of light and its constituent component colour, it can only form a basis for further exploration, and the imminent possibility and inclusion of new ideas.

        Children, required to be computer literate, continue to have great difficulty, reconciling the use of a palette of so-called primary pigments, containing red, blue, and yellow, when science correctly teaches the relationship between the primary colours of light vis-a-vis the primary colours of pigment.

        The computer‘s ability to manipulate light now takes us beyond 8, 16 and 256 colours, to the realm of modelling in three dimensions (256 x 256 x 256), of 16·7 million colours.   The intensity of every hue appears indefinitely expandable from neutral grey to full saturation.   Colours are manipulated on these pages with the use of three groups of two digit hexi-decimal numbers (where 00 = nothing and FF = 255, full saturation) for example:

 

  "# FF 00 00 " and "# 00 FF 00 " makes "# FF FF 00 ";  or  

  "# FF 00 00 " and "# 00 00 FF " makes "# FF 00 FF ";  or   

   "# 00 FF 00 " and "# 00 00 FF " makes "# 00 FF FF ".        

        Clearly, computers pose a serious problem, for teachers holding on to traditions proselytized over the years by schools of art and colleges of education.   Many more people however, will the enabled, by such means [as we are], to publish their own expressed views, concepts and ideas; a privilege that had previously been confined, to a relatively small elite.

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