Color Theory from Beginner to Hardcore
105K views 路 May 19, 2026 路 Science & Technology
Comments 路 237
@LumililyLight 路 4 months ago
That epilepsy warning was a QuickTime event 馃槶
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@halidi3740 路 4 months ago
chat should i watch this for fun because im colour blind
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@Hannah_The_Goanna 路 3 months ago
Professional painter here, not only to human eyes view certain hues as lighter or darker but colours can influence other colours. Blues surrounded by oranges can look more grey. This also happens with coloured lighting red light shine on green will defuse colour. For red, yellow, blue primary colours they are used for paint mixing (different to inks). For acrylic artists the primary colours you need are, cool red warm red, warm yellow cool yellow, ultramarine and phthalo blue, white and either dark brown or black. You can create brown by mixing the primary colours together and certain greys by mixing complementary colours (purple and yellow for example). This is taught in school as red, yellow, blue are easily purchased and safe for kids to use and under stand.
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@mokumoki 路 4 months ago
Learnt more about color theory in 22 minutes than my University image processing course could manage in 3 months. Liked and subscribed to boost this video to the algorithm.
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@lemuel2729 路 4 months ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kML74tInp0&t=1134">18:54</a> biblically accurate chromaticity diagram
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@lunar_eclipse.k45 路 2 months ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kML74tInp0&t=479">7:59</a> fun fact, the reason for this is because the gene is recessive and its sex linked. Sex linked genes are on the X chromosome, and recessive genes need to be the only ones there to show up. So males are more likely to be colorblind because they only need one colorblind gene, meanwhile females need two (intersex people with different chromosomes are obviously different, XXY have the same chances as XX, and X have the same chances as XY. That only accounts for chromosomal differences because well its linked to chromosomes)
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@Iris-dotrm 路 2 months ago
As someone watching at 2:15am in pitch blackness save for my phone, thank you for not doing HDR cause that overrides my brightness and I would have been flashbanged
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@SCLorentz 路 2 months ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kML74tInp0&t=34">0:34</a> "in 1666 Isaac Newton observed that when white light passes through a triangular prism, it forms the cover of The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd"
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@korakys 路 3 months ago
Red-green colour blindness is the most common because the red and green cone cells evolved from each other only "recently" and still measure fairly similar wavelengths. I only just realised this while watching your video and then playing with the LMS colour space demo on your website.
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@savethebees2574 路 4 months ago
oh so THAT'S why certain images and videos on social media (mostly tumblr) are really bright! I always just assumed it was a website thing
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@DovyBL 路 4 months ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kML74tInp0&t=96">1:36</a> all of the lights 馃棧馃敟馃敟馃敟
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@Luigi2262_ 路 2 months ago
To be fair, HDR videos look bright because not enough people use them. If most people used HDR pictures, non-HDR ones would look too dark instead
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