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    Color wheels organize color relationships and interactions to help artists determine which color system best meets their needs for a given medium or work. There are several types of color wheels that convey different color information based on whether the colors are being subtracted, like in pigments, or added like with light. These include the pigment wheel, process wheel, Munsell wheel, light wheel, and visual wheel, each with their own primary and secondary colors and uses in areas like printing, painting, lighting, and computer graphics.

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    Color wheels organize color relationships and interactions to help artists determine which color system best meets their needs for a given medium or work. There are several types of color wheels that convey different color information based on whether the colors are being subtracted, like in pigments, or added like with light. These include the pigment wheel, process wheel, Munsell wheel, light wheel, and visual wheel, each with their own primary and secondary colors and uses in areas like printing, painting, lighting, and computer graphics.

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    Color wheels organize color relationships and interactions to help artists determine which color system best meets their needs for a given medium or work. There are several types of color wheels that convey different color information based on whether the colors are being subtracted, like in pigments, or added like with light. These include the pigment wheel, process wheel, Munsell wheel, light wheel, and visual wheel, each with their own primary and secondary colors and uses in areas like printing, painting, lighting, and computer graphics.

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    Color wheels organize color relationships and interactions to help artists determine which color system best meets their needs for a given medium or work. There are several types of color wheels that convey different color information based on whether the colors are being subtracted, like in pigments, or added like with light. These include the pigment wheel, process wheel, Munsell wheel, light wheel, and visual wheel, each with their own primary and secondary colors and uses in areas like printing, painting, lighting, and computer graphics.

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    Color Wheels

    Color wheels are color arrangements or structures that enable us to organize and predict such
    color reactions and interactions. In the other hand, one wheel or system may not satisfy all our
    needs. According to the medium, or the kind of work to be rendered the artist must determine
    which wheel or wheels best satisfy the needs at hand.

    The Pigment Wheel


    The mixing or pigment wheel has twelve –steps, and it is the basis for working with subtractive
    color; and imparts information about the reactions colors have when they are actually mixed. In
    pigment wheel the black is not pure as it should be in theory. Because when the three primary
    colors in this particular wheel are combined the result will be muddy black.

    The Process Wheel


    In contrast to the pigment wheel, the process wheel gives us three basic primaries –yellow,
    magenta, and cyan-that do upon mixing, result in purer hues. This primary arrangement is the
    standard employed in color printing and photography as well as pigment (usually ink)
    manufacture. A look at the colors used show s a very luminous and bright yellow, an intense
    magenta that is red though leaning toward violet. And a cyan that is blue but tending toward
    green. When we take equal parts of these primaries and mix them. The following secondary hues
    result:
    yellow +cyan= green
    cyan +magenta=violet
    magenta + yellow =orange.

    Mixing the three primaries together from this wheel in equal amounts gives us black.

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    The Munsell Wheel
    Albert Munsell developed a partitive color system based on five primary hues or, as he termed
    them, principal color: yellow, red, green, blue, and purple. These primaries are based on
    afterimage perceptions that derive from hues that we see in nature. After imaging perceptions
    that derive from hues which we see in nature .Munsell set up each afterimage as the compliment
    to his principal (primary) hues. A complimentary hue is the hue that occupies the position
    directly opposite wheel as in interior design and in the production of cosmetics, computer
    hardware, and paint.

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    The Light Wheel
    The light wheel is based on the additive color system and provides information concerning light
    rays and transparent color. Here the primary colors that form the other hues are red, green, and,
    blue. The secondaries are as follows:
    red +green= yellow
    green +blue =cyan
    blue +red = magenta

    Since these are combination of colored light when all the primaries are combined White results.
    The light wheel is used for theatrical lighting and projection and is now the basis for video and
    computer graphics as well.

    The Visual Wheel


    The visual wheel grew out or work done by Leonardo da Vinci on complimentary colors, and

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    greatly in influenced renaissance painting. This color was the forerunner of the concept of
    partitive color theory and was used in partitive as well as a subtractive manner. The visual wheel
    was the superseded by the Munsell wheel, which was more scientifically accurate.
    The primary colors or the visual wheel are red, yellow, green, and blue.
    The visual color wheel is arranged so that the complementary combinations are yellow and blue,
    orange and blue-green, red and green, and violet and yellow –green. When these primaries are
    combined the result to the human eye is a gray.

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