Course detail
Science of Colour and Light
FSI-YN1Acad. year: 2019/2020
The subject gets students acquainted with the basics in colour and light theory that are used in industrial design. It is a basic understanding of 2D and 2D colouring, colour combination and composition, colour illusions, importance of light and illumination in design practice.
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Resulting evaluation consists of evaluations on tasks. In total it will be possible to aquire 100 points. Resulting classification will be defined by the ECTS scale. If some of the projects are awarded less than half of the maximum pts., final evaluation of the course is F "failed" .
According to the article No. 13 of Study and Examination Rules of Brno University of Technology ECTS evaluation degree scale is used. . If some of the projects are awarded less than 50 pts., final evaluation of the course is "failed". The course is evaluated with the following grades: ECTS EVALUATION DEGREES / PTS. RATING / NUMERIC RATING: A / 100 - 90 / 1 / Excellent; B /89 - 80 / 1,5 / Very good; C / 79 - 70 / 2 / Good; D / 69 - 60 / Satisfactory; E / 59 - 50 / Sufficient; F / 49 - 0 / 4 / Failed.
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Basic literature
PIPES, Alan. Foundations of Art + Design. Second edition. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2008. ISBN 978-1-85669-578-7.
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Elearning
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Lecture
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2. History/theory, Ancient times, Empedoklés, Aristotelés, Démokritos, Platón, Plinius, Cennini
3. Modern times, da Vinci, Forsius, Aguilonius, Newton, Goethe, Runge, Purkyně, Young, Chevreul
4. Maxwell, Helmholz, Hering, Munsell, Ostwald, Richter
5. Colour modes, CIE 1931, CIELAB, HLS, RGB, CMN-86
6. Colour perception, setting and activity of eye, light and origin of colour perception, theory of colour vision
7. Colour mixing, additive colour model (RGB), pigments, print colours (CMY)
8. Illumination and colour perception (reflection, absorption), gloss and matt
9. Colour arrangement, terminology, grey scale and colour circle
10. Physical perception, psychological and symbolic meaning of colours, associations, colour and space
11. Colour harmonization, expression, harmony, contrasts, colour combinations
12. Colour and paper, colour in printing, means of measuring the saturation of colours, types of paper
13. Application and spraying of colours, pigments and their characters, colouring various materials, types of paints and varnishes, dilutants and binders, etc.
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2. Work on colour composition on topic mixing colours
3. Work on colour composition on topic mixing colours
4. Work on colour composition on topic mixing colours
5. Evaluation of 1st assignment /analysis of strengths and weaknesses/, assignment of 2nd task, colour composition of warm and cold colours (temperature contrast, colour perspective)
6. Work on colour composition of warm and cold colours
7. Work on colour composition of warm and cold colours
8. Work on colour composition of warm and cold colours
9. Evaluation of 2nd assignment /analysis of strengths and weaknesses/, assignment of 3rd task, colour composition on topic simultaneous contrast
10. Work on colour composition on topic simultaneous contrast
11. Work on colour composition on topic simultaneous contrast
12. Work on colour composition on topic simultaneous contrast
13. Evaluation of 3rd assignment /analysis of strengths and weaknesses/
Elearning