{"title":"We can't see the rainbow in the white","authors":"Gi Wai Echo Hui","doi":"10.1145/3414686.3427132","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"When there is light, everything is visible. I decompose the fundamental element in the visual world to let the invisible become visible. It is a process deconstructing light. I project a white source of light on a surface while using prism and some moving images to \"deconstruct\" it. \"White\" is not an independent colour. It is a mixture of colour in the visible spectrum that is composed of the primary colour red, green and blue. Through refraction of light, I separated the white source with the three primary colours to rainbow light using a prism. After that, I took away green light from white light, leaving a mixture of red and blue light. Without green, the light source gradually reflects a new colour called magenta, hence the 'rainbow' becomes a 'duo-coloured rainbow'. Eventually, I erased red from magenta. The line results in pure blue colour. As blue is a primary coloured light that cannot be further decomposed by the prism, it appeared the ultimate light source in a monochromatic 'rainbow' colour.","PeriodicalId":376476,"journal":{"name":"SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 Art Gallery","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 Art Gallery","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3414686.3427132","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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When there is light, everything is visible. I decompose the fundamental element in the visual world to let the invisible become visible. It is a process deconstructing light. I project a white source of light on a surface while using prism and some moving images to "deconstruct" it. "White" is not an independent colour. It is a mixture of colour in the visible spectrum that is composed of the primary colour red, green and blue. Through refraction of light, I separated the white source with the three primary colours to rainbow light using a prism. After that, I took away green light from white light, leaving a mixture of red and blue light. Without green, the light source gradually reflects a new colour called magenta, hence the 'rainbow' becomes a 'duo-coloured rainbow'. Eventually, I erased red from magenta. The line results in pure blue colour. As blue is a primary coloured light that cannot be further decomposed by the prism, it appeared the ultimate light source in a monochromatic 'rainbow' colour.