Color Terminology for February 13

• Afterimage – A common optical effect in which an additional color seems to appear at the edge of an observed color.
• Successive Contrast – The name for the visual phenomenon that creates complementary afterimages of a color after gazing at it for a brief but sustained period of time.
• Simultaneous Contrast – The effect two neighboring colors have upon each other as their afterimages interact along a shared border.
• Optical Mixing – An effect that occurs when color fragments are organized in a tight pattern, appear to fuse and, from a distance, appear as a single mixed color.  Optical mixing is facilitated by the effects of simultaneous contrast.
• Inherent Light – The light that seems to flow from within a color.