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Paris, Texas: In ColorMain MenuIntroductionMethod and FindingsColor Film: A (Very) Brief HistoryColor Galleries: Red, Green, and BlueFilm TimelineThe Film in FramesCarly Barnhardt2635ecd6a977fbde0eb8c468ea50848f342d8337
12024-12-22T15:02:18-08:00Color in the Digital Age10plain2024-12-23T16:49:52-08:00The RGB color model has a long history of use in conventional photography and moving film images. The same fundamental principles underlie the representation and processing of digital color. Each pixel is represented as numerical values for red, green, and blue color components, known as the RGB index code. RGB input devices include color cameras and image scanners, and RGB output devices include television displays, computer displays, multicolor LED displays, and other screens. Every color displayed on your smart phone screen, for example, has a numerical code which represents the values of red, blue, and green pixels. The Python script I used-- adapted from the Digtial Viewing Toolkit-- analyzed the primary color in terms of RGB. As Arnold notes, "[this] is not a particularly meaningful way to think about our perception of color. Fortunately, there are other ways to represent color that more closely align with human perception and understanding" (Distant Viewing Tutorial 1: Movie Posters and Color Analysis). Human perception, for instance, is more likely to be sensitive to image brightness, which corresponds to pixel intensity, or how high a number is for each color value, saturation, and hue.
The color galleries which follow display frames which represent particular intensity in brightness, saturation, and hue-- organized by color (red, green, and blue).
