Title |
Maxwell's Discs |
Creator |
James Clerk Maxwell |
Creator Nationality |
Scottish |
Description |
Optical color mixing on a spinning disc; Maxwell used red, green, and blue primaries to match the light gray in the center of his disc. All the proportions could be altered to obtain exact matches. |
Subject |
Color Theory |
Creation Date |
ca. 1855 CE |
Form |
object |
Repository |
Clavendish Laboratory, Cambridge (England) |
Classes |
ART 3010: The Language of Color |
Source |
Colour in Art. Thames and Hudson, London, 2006. |
Work ID |
11552 |
Rights |
Digital Image Copyright University of Utah |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s6h73ssj |
Setname |
uu_aah_art |
ID |
37147 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6h73ssj |