Complete the vocabulary of colour systems.
Newton published Opticks, which argued that the colours are already present in white light, in ______. Albert Munsell separated hue, value and ______ in his notation of 1905. The primaries of subtractive mixing are cyan, ______ and yellow. Two hues lie ______ steps apart on Munsell's circle of a hundred when they are complementary in his system.
Word bank: 1704 · chroma · magenta · 50 · 1666 · saturation
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- The first blank is the year of the book, not the year of the prism experiment.
- The last blank is half a circle of one hundred steps.
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Newton published Opticks, which argued that the colours are already present in white light, in 1704. Albert Munsell separated hue, value and chroma in his notation of 1905. The primaries of subtractive mixing are cyan, magenta and yellow. Two hues lie 50 steps apart on Munsell's circle of a hundred when they are complementary in his system.
The first two distractors are the traps worth naming. 1666 is when Newton did the prism work and 1704 is when he published it, and the two dates are nearly forty years apart. "Saturation" and "chroma" are close but not interchangeable: chroma is Munsell's own scale, measured against a neutral of the same value.
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