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Color Theory

This Web site, developed by the Exploratories Project at Brown University, provides a series of applets to help users understand the various concepts in Color Theory. In the combined Color Mixing applet, undergraduate and high school students can discover how lights, paints, and filters interact. Users can learn about the properties of incoming light, frequency, and reflectance. The site also...

http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs092/VA10/HTML/start.html
Color Theory from the Art of Education University

Art teachers at the elementary and middle-school levels will want to check out the articles, videos, and other resources on color theory available from The Art of Education University (featured in the 11-20-2020 Scout Report), a fully online graduate university offering accredited degrees for art teachers. The resources were created by experienced art teachers to facilitate art education through...

https://theartofeducation.edu/magazine/?keyword=Color%2520Th...
The Fundamentals of Understanding Color Theory

Graphic designers, marketing professionals, and entrepreneurs will find use in "The Fundamentals of Understanding Color Theory," an article by Kris Decker from Vistaprint's graphic design service, 99designs. The term "color theory" covers many things; it can be a practical guide to color mixing and the visual effects of color combination, the study of how people perceive color, the analysis of...

https://99designs.com/blog/tips/the-7-step-guide-to-understa...
The Physics Hypertextbook: Color

The Physics Hypertextbook is an open-source, idiosyncratic, and highly readable online physics textbook created by author, illustrator, and science teacher Glenn Elert. Readers interested in the science of color will enjoy the Color chapter of the textbook, which through five sections lays out the conceptual and historical background on color, provides problems to apply these concepts, and links...

https://physics.info/color/