Projection Design

“Projection Design” offers a hands-on approach to the design, planning and execution of digital projections in a variety of performance spaces by using a combination of industry standard and open source research software tools. This blog will serve as an online text for the developing book, "Technical Ecstasy" and link for the web-readings, online tutorials,software resources historical examples, video art and performance examples and essential class communications for Projection Design class taught by Patrick Pagano

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

color theory

In the visual arts, "color theory is a body of practical guidance to color mixing and the visual impacts of specific color combinations." As it relates to the designer, color can be a crucial factor, it has the ability to invoke different emotions. If the designer uses the wrong colors, the viewer can misinterpret what what the designer is trying to portray.

As it pertains to our class, we use RGBA (red, green, blue, alpha) giving us the ability to use all colors off the red, green, blue scale. The alpha allows to for additive of different shades of the colors to be represented

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