color+vocabulary

Effect produced on the eye and its associated nerves by light waves of different wavelength or frequency. Light transmitted from an object to the eye stimulates the different color cones of the retina, thus making possible perception of various colors in the object.
 * Color**

The color wheel shows the primary colors, secondary colors, and the tertiary colors. It also shows the relationships between complementary colors and analogous colors next.
 * Color Wheel**

Value refers to the lightness or darkness of a color
 * Value**

Colors mixed with white are called tints. Pink is a tint of red. Colors mixed with black are called shades. Burgundy is a shade of red.
 * Value, Tints & Shades**

Colors next to one another on the color wheel are called analogous (it means "related"). Analogous colors share a common color and usually appear to be in harmony.
 * Analogous Colors**

Colors are often associated with moods. For example, we say "green with envy," "a blue mood.
 * Mood**

Artists use colors to create a variety of desired effects. When an artist paints a scene or objects realistically, colors are used in imitation of the things being painted.
 * Natural Color**

Are the effects that can be made with colors, principally the artists use it in the elaboration of they paintings
 * Color Effects**

"Are black and white colors?" The answer to this question is one of the most debated issues about color. Ask a scientist and you'll get the physics reply: “Black is not a color, white is a color.” Ask an artist or a child with crayons and you'll get another: “Black is a color, white is not a color.”
 * Black & White**


 * Why color is important in architecture/urban planning?**

It is the color a important element in urban planning? Well, I thing that most important can be in the urban design. First of all because the urban planning is a extensive area of research, point that I'll obviate. In urban design the color have a important role in the design stage proposal, and the presentation of the same one. With the color we most express the different land uses and textures that compose the area that we are intervening, with the use of color in the representation of land uses exist a basic combination of colors like the red color for the commercial use, the purple color to the recreational use, the yellow color for residential use, among others. And when we want to play with textures the shades play a important role. It's like if we are a children sketching our idea.

But, our thing is not only the draw, there is new technologies focused in the virtual urban design, because we deal with the volumetric design of structures and open spaces (public space mostly), and although it sounds basic, the colors used in the proposal stage can make the different of a nice proyect or a poor project.


 * Idioms**

Be in the red Owing money, in debt

Red tape Complicated official procedures and form

In the black Having money

In black and white Very clear and easy to understand

A white lie Something that is not true but causes no harm Out of the blue By surprise, unexpectedly

Green with envy Jealous of someone else's good fortune

The green light The OK to start something

The black market The market not controlled by the government.

To feel blue To feel sad

The red carpet Special honors for a special or important person