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String-art inspired rainbow graphics

Post author By Jonathan
Post date January 20, 2022
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Line art, showing lines of varying hue and semi transparent

Create line art in processing, based on a 500×500 grid. Explore transparency effects.

Tags colour, coloured lines, for loop, horizontal lines, line art, line-art, pattern, processing, project, project rainbow, rainbow, vertical lines

Beginner Colours Processing Project Rainbow

Create colour effect examples

Post author By Jonathan
Post date January 19, 2022
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Blue and red coloured squares, after Josef Albers

Create coloured squares (after Johannes Itten) to be printed and cut out, and coloured rectangles (after Josef Albers)

Tags colour, critical thinking, critical thinking sheet, Johannes Itten, Josef Albers, plan, popMatrix(), processing.org, pushMatrix(), rgb, scale, sketch, transformation

Beginner Colours Data Processing Project Rainbow

Create colour blocks per value – introduction to mapping data to colours

Post author By Jonathan
Post date January 19, 2022
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Sketch of design for the blocks of value activity

Create blocks of data that represent values. Then map these blocks from a simple array.

Tags array, colour interval, colours, critical thinking sheet, data, hsb, hue, map values, mapping, PDF, print to PDF, processing.org, saturation, sketch, value

Beginner Colours History Project Rainbow

Learn about the relative nature of colour

Post author By Jonathan
Post date January 19, 2022
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Ten colours to name

Critically think about colours; how they can be measured, the environment they are placed within and the emotions they bring.

Tags 12-part colour wheel, cold colours, colour, colour effect, colour interval, colour value, colour wheel, Goethe, hsb, hue, Johannes Itten, projectrainbow, saturation, warm colours

Beginner Colours Java Processing Project Rainbow

Create a coloured grid in Processing

Post author By Jonathan
Post date September 2, 2020
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Learn how to create a grid of coloured shapes, plotted in Processing.

Tags cell, colour, for-loop, grid, hsb, hue, index, jitter, random, saturation, value

Beginner Colours Processing Project Rainbow

Plot 40 rectangles and circles

Post author By Jonathan
Post date August 26, 2020
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Create 40 coloured rectangles, use a for-loop, the critical thinking sheet, and do some code refactoring.

Tags colour, critical thinking sheet, critical-thinking-sheet, ellipse, hsb, hue, java, projectrainbow, rectangles, refactor, refactoring, saturation, value

Beginner Colours Java Processing Project Rainbow

Create a spectrum of coloured squares in Processing (part 1)

Post author By Jonathan
Post date July 14, 2020
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Create hundreds of coloured rectangles.

Tags colour model, colours, critical thinking sheet, hsb, part1, processing, rainbow, rectangles, spectrum, squares

Beginner Colours Project Rainbow

Learn Hue Saturation and Brightness (HSB) colour coding

Post author By Jonathan
Post date July 2, 2020
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Learn about Hue, Saturation and Brightness colour model.

Tags brightness, colour, colour coding, colour picker, hsb, hue, projectrainbow, rgb, saturation, value

Beginner Colours Project Rainbow

Add a rainbow to an image with Photoshop

Post author By Jonathan
Post date June 23, 2020
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Create a rainbow in Photoshop and add it to an image.

Tags bangor, colour, editing, photo, photograph, photoshop, pier, rainbow

Beginner Colours Java Processing Project Rainbow

Create a rainbow in code

In this activity you will create a rainbow in code using software sketchbook and a language “Processing”.

Tags beginner, colours, critical-thinking-sheet, CTS, ellipse, processing, rainbow, rect, rgb, scene, tree

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