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Topic: Color revolution


  
  Knowledge: The Color Chart
A color's hue is the group of colors it presides in(red, yellow, blue,etc).
The most intense color is farthest to the right, which varies in value depending on the hue(yellow would be higher, purple lower,etc).
Colors increment by one step within each element, which means the contrast between each adjacent color is equal.
www.master-colors.com /Files/Knowledge/ColorChart/ColorChart.html   (689 words)

  
 Color   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The colors, or hues, of a printed object, such as a poster, are created by the reflection of light from the paper the design is printed on, each printed image reflecting a particular range of the color spectrum.
Color is universally employed to symbolize cultural ideals, social, political, and spiritual attitudes, and a broad spectrum of emotional and physical conditions.
Color gain their symbolic meaning through association, such as blood red to symbolize energy and life, the luminous yellow of the sun to express warmth, or leaf green to convey health and growth.
www.wku.edu /art/courses/digital_media/classes/art130/handout/Color.htm   (499 words)

  
 Free Personality test, Luscher color test, Color psychology
Color psychological Test gives information concerning the conscious and unconscious psychological structure of the individual, areas of psychic stress, the state of glandular balance or imbalance.
Color is not a physical phenomenon, but a perceptual phenomenon that is related in a complex way to the spectral characteristics of electro-magnetic radiation in the visible wawelengths striking in retina.
Colors in this area show that their characteristics are not being rejected, but simply set aside and not currently in use; they could be brought into use at any time if need be.
www.saunalahti.fi /jawap/colour/colortest.html   (1217 words)

  
 The Color Television Revolution
There were competing schemes for transmitting color pictures, but in 1953 the RCA "compatible-color" system was accepted as the standard by the FCC.
There is a significant difference between the color revolution and digital/high definition revolution: RCA's NTSC system was accepted in 1953 because the new color broadcasts were compatible with the nation's millions of fl and white receivers.
Color TV's were expensive initially, and although manufacturers such as Zenith, Sylvania, and Admiral offered color sets, the majority were sold by RCA.
www.ev1.pair.com /colorTV/colortv-revolution.html   (983 words)

  
 Converting Stacks to Revolution - Color
Revolution's color and pattern assignments follow a hierarchy of inheritance very similar to the message hierarchy.
No colors at all need to be assigned to individual buttons or objects unless you want those objects to use different colors than the group's.
Revolution supports gif transparency, so that's the format you should use for any images where white space should be transparent.
www.hyperactivesw.com /mctutorial/rrcolor.html   (1193 words)

  
 Digital Colour Basics
Painters continue to incorrectly define primary colors as red, yellow and blue according to the color wheel despite the fact that such technologies as offset printing and photography, each almost a century old, are based on a three-dimensional system of color using the true primaries cyan, magenta and yellow.
Color Math, as it is referred to, relies upon first breaking colors into their constituent primary values, then doing the mathematical operation.
Color space mappings could be visually represented in three-dimensional space relative to each other, and relative to the theoretical set of visible colors.
www.colorcube.com /articles/basics/basics.htm   (1878 words)

  
 The Haitian Revolution, Pt. 1
The free people of color were often quite wealthy, certainly usually more wealthy than the petit blancs (thus accounting for the distinct hatred of the free persons of color on the part of the petit blancs), and often even more wealthy than the planters.
It was a curious alliance, since the whites continued to oppress the free people of color in their social life, but formed a coalition with them on the political and economic front.
It seemed to possibly exclude the petit blancs, thus increasing their anger against the free persons of color, and, on the other hand, it seemed to argue for citizenship for free persons of color who were property owners—which was most of them.
www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/43a/102.html   (4328 words)

  
 Television Obscurities - Keeping Obscure TV From Fading Away Forever   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Color television had its beginnings in the late 1940s but was not a viable commercial undertaking until the early 1950s.
During the early 1960s color television grew at an amazing pace, culminating in the color revolution of 1965...
ABC was also slow in joining the color revolution, content instead to let NBC expend enormous amounts of money on a venture that only a small percentage of viewers could enjoy.
www.tvobscurities.com /articles/color60s.php   (876 words)

  
 Non-violent revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A non-violent revolution is a revolution using mostly nonviolent protest against governments seen as entrenched and authoritarian to advocate democracy, liberalism, and national independence in their nation.
However the protesters didn't adopt a color or specific symbol (the most recognizable symbol of the revolution was a stylized fist), and despite the commonalities, many others refer to Georgia as the most definite beginning of the series of "color revolutions." The demonstrations were supported by youth movement Otpor.
The opposition in Moldova, is reported to have hoped and urged for some kind of Orange revolution, similar to that in Ukraine, in the followup of the Moldovan parliamentary elections, 2005, while the Christian Democratic People's Party adopted orange for its color in a clear reference to the events of Ukraine.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Non-violent_revolution   (1659 words)

  
 Colors, consciousness and mind
Color therapy or light therapy is based on the fact that by using coloured lamps we can change our daily hormonal rhythms.
In physics color is electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength that is visible to the human eye.
The 3+3 color generators carrying opposite quantum numbers indeed can be related to the six primary colors forming complementary pairs (with fl and white included).
www.saunalahti.fi /jawap/colour   (595 words)

  
 The revolution in color photography. - By Jim Lewis - Slate Magazine
Part of it was simply that color images were a tacky bit of business, associated with magazines and billboards and the snapshots that ordinary people took of their vacations and weddings.
Since very few people had the expertise (or could afford the equipment) to develop and print their own color work, the artist was transformed into little more than a shutterbug—dependent upon technicians in commercial labs to fashion the works that their public would actually see.
And part of it, to be fair, was simply that color film hadn't reached the technical level of its fl-and-white counterpart; it wasn't anywhere near as sensitive to light, for example, or as sharp, which meant that pictures had to be taken outdoors or under strong artificial light.
www.slate.com /id/2078059   (1156 words)

  
 The New Spectrum for Accuracy
Hue indicates which color group in the spectrum the color exists in, such as red, yellow, green, etc. Value is very similar to 'L' in L*a*b*, describing how light or dark the color is. Chroma describes the intensity, where gray is the weakest, and the bright colors of every hue are the strongest.
The strength of this contrast is precisely the distance between the colors in HVC space.
Any time the colors of an image need to be "compressed" or "expanded", so to speak, to better fit a certain color range, there will be absolutely no distortions in the relative contrast levels.
www.master-colors.com /newspectrum/newspec.html   (2420 words)

  
 NBC, ABC, and CBS logos from the 1950's and 60's
Although ABC and CBS briefly experimented with color broadcasts in the 1950's and early 60's, few of their affiliates were equipped with transmitters capable of broadcasting the color signals.
Color television set manufacturer RCA owned the NBC and took advantage of that synergy to sell RCA color TV's by broadcasting color programs on the NBC network using RCA-equipped studios.
ABC joined the color revolution on a very limited scale in the early 60's with color broadcasts of the hit animated series "The Flintstones" and later "The Jetsons." Not many ABC affiliates had color transmission equipment however, so most viewers watched those early ABC color broadcasts in old-fashioned fl and white.
www.kingoftheroad.net /colorTV/colorTVlogos.html   (862 words)

  
 ISN Security Watch - Baku opposition prepares for 'color revolution’
Drawing parallels between the tense atmosphere in Azerbaijan and the “color revolutions” in Georgia and Ukraine, Gassanly discussed the Azadlig Bloc’s strategy.
The color revolution template is being discussed openly here, although the word “revolution” is used with caution.
Elin Sulmeymanov, senior counselor at the Office of the President, took a skeptical view of the parallels drawn between the impending elections and the color revolutions in the Ukraine and Georgia.
www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?ID=13326   (1869 words)

  
 Gamblin Artists Colors - Navigating Color Space   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Once you have identified your color's HUE family, the more intense colors are found at the outer edges of the Hues.
All colors of very high intensity and transparency, the modern colors are found on the outside edge of color space where they are revolutionizing the way artists create glaze layers.
Modern colors retain their intensity in mass tone, tint and transparency until they are mixed with colors from different hues.
www.gamblincolors.com /space.html   (1136 words)

  
 PermaCrete Renews - Strengthens - Enhances
Schrementi says the beauty of concrete is that it can be shaped, colored and textured into a very personal creation.
In the 40's and 50's, nearly all homes were built with hardwood floors, vinyl tile or sheet flooring; during the 60's and 70's, rugs and carpets covered them all up.
The process leaves permanent color that is surprisingly rich.
www.permacrete.com /color_revolution.php   (1184 words)

  
 C2 : Collections of Color
Created with their customers in mind, C2 was designed to provide beautiful, complex color combined with easy application, excellent coverage and durability against UV, fading and scrubbing.
It also offers unique color tools such as an 18"x24" paint chip called the Ultimate Paint Chip and the Take Home Chip, a 2.74"x4" swatch that is still seven times larger than the average.
Both Chips are manufactured using the actual paint, not an ink simulation, so the color on the wall actually matches the color on the Chip.
www.c2color.com /Habitat_For_Humanity.html   (657 words)

  
 Incite Planetary Revolution: The Color of God and the Substance Thereof
The idea for this book came together after years of intense study of psychological and social revolution -in literature and in the daily struggle to survive and provide for the family at the lowest strata of society as an unskilled laborer.
Upon encountering the phrase “planetary revolution” in a newspaper article concerning the WorldWatch Institute’s annual report on the state of the globe in the late ‘80’s, a lightning bolt flash of insight burned itself into the authors brain.
All the while, one burning obsession possessed his mind- revolution, both psychological and social- how to live a free, creative, righteous life in the middle of the cutthroat competition of the urban consumer economy.
www.authorhouse.com /BookStore/ItemDetail~bookid~16842.aspx   (1025 words)

  
 China's Color-Coded Crackdown   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
In response to the recent democratic "color" revolutions in Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan, the Chinese government is taking action to prevent similar uprisings in its own country.
China quietly observed the 2003 "Rose Revolution" in Georgia and the 2004 "Orange Revolution" in Ukraine.
As long as the clouds of color revolution are hovering over Central Asia some, for example, expect storms in Belarus the Chinese government will stay on high alert.
yaleglobal.yale.edu /display.article?id=6376   (914 words)

  
 Color revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aram Karapetyan, leader of the New Times political party, has declared his intention to start a "revolution from below" in April 2005, saying that the situation was different now that people had seen the developments in the CIS.
On March 25, 2005, activists wearing yellow scarves held protests in the capital city of Ulan Bator, disputing the results of the 2004 Mongolian parliamentary elections and calling for fresh elections.
She also said that her party is collaborating with the youth organization Shiddat, and that she hopes it can evolve to an organization similar to Kmara or Pora.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Color_revolution   (2191 words)

  
 RIA Novosti - Opinion & analysis - IS A COLOR REVOLUTION POSSIBLE IN AZERBAIJAN?
Color revolutions are timed for elections, as the methods behind them are based on using public protests against the real or imaginary falsification of election results.
Aliyev is acting as a political ally of Yushchenko and Saakashvili, which makes him "untouchable" to the activists of color revolutions.
The problem is that not everything in color revolutions depends on the external or economic factors.
en.rian.ru /analysis/20050511/39965883.html   (880 words)

  
 Orange Remains the Color of Revolution by Ron Slimp - HUMAN EVENTS
This popular revolution succeeded in bringing about Ukraine’s first truly democratic elections and was a repudiation of the corruption and oligarchic nepotism of the previous Kuchma regime.
It succeeded, and the Orange Revolution became synonymous with a renewed sense of freedom, rule of law and Western-leaning sentiment towards inclusion in NATO and the European Union.
It is a reminder that popular revolutions are not only rare, they are also fragile in infancy and can take many years to reach their conclusion.
www.humanevents.com /article.php?id=18174   (952 words)

  
 RIA Novosti - Opinion & analysis - Will there be a "color revolution" in Kazakhstan?
Elections in the post-Soviet republics of late have tended to coincide with the phenomenon of "color revolutions".
It is not so much the question of a 9-percent economic growth registered in the first six months of this year (economic growth in Ukraine under the Viktor Yanukovich government was as high) or the charisma of Nursultan Nazarbayev, who, as opposed to, say, Eduard Shevardnadze, has not exhausted his political potential.
Firstly, the idea of "integrating with the West", which inspired the Ukrainian "Orange Revolution" and the Georgian supporters of Mikhail Saakashvili, is not popular in Kazakhstan because of its geopolitical situation.
en.rian.ru /analysis/20050914/41397108.html   (853 words)

  
 Muralo Paints’ New Color Fashions Ease Selection Process for Ideal Look
The large 7 1/2” x 11” color sheets and “color tester” quart-size cans—tintable to any color in four different bases—enable designers and homeowners to examine how colors appear in various lights and with different furniture and fabric.
The color revolution has evolved from an era of copying hot colors in magazines and home decorating TV shows to one of self-expression.
Muralo’s new Color Fashions system provides designers and the new style-savvy homeowners with the means to “capture their colors” and achieve that individualized look, says Seaborg.
www.prweb.com /releases/2006/8/prweb418027.htm   (644 words)

  
 Color Matters Factoids
The fall color of "Sunkist" orange is popping up everywhere in fashion.
When chickens were fed male hormones, they pecked at their colored food in different ways.
Color Matters is a registered trademark of J.L. Morton.
www.colormatters.com /factarchive99.html   (855 words)

  
 The Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution - Color Guard
During the war there were militia groups spread out in all the towns and local communities, ready to be called to action at any time.
Today we rely on the Color Guards of our local Branches to act on the behalf of the state society.
Color Guards are one of the best ways for our society to promote revolutionary history.
www.connecticutsar.org /color_guard.htm   (141 words)

  
 Gamblin Artists Colors - Artists Grade Oils - Violet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Usually a mixed color made from a cool red and a warm blue, purple symbolizes both sensuality and repentance.
Ultramarine Violet, based on Ultramarine Blue, is one among many specialty pigments made by German chemists during the color revolution of the 19th century.
A cold color, Dioxazine Purple is completely transparent and useful as a high key tint.
www.gamblincolors.com /materials/violets.html   (528 words)

  
 Publius Pundit - Blogging the democratic revolution
To avoid its own “color revolution” Beijing is now quietly cracking down on those who would dare to show dissent.
The report, disseminated inside the party, outlines a series of measures aimed at nipping a potential Chinese “color revolution” in the bud.
By backstepping, the Chinese government is only further risking the possibility of a revolution, and I honestly am not as optimistic as others about the years to come.
www.publiuspundit.com /?p=1868   (697 words)

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