I created this blog for my design class, but also to express my interest in design. I am on a project called EcoCAR: The Next Challenge sponsored by GM and the Department of Energy, with many other sponsors (official website). The competition has 16 universities involved from North America, including 3 from Canada, all to create a vehicle that is more efficient, has better emissions, while keeping consumer acceptability, using the same vehicle platform. Each team designs and builds this hybrid vehicle over a 3 year time-frame where we compete each year, this is the last year.
I am a sub-team leader for The Ohio State University (ecocar.osu.edu ) EcoCAR Team and have been on it since the beginning of the competition. The first year was the main year to design architecture of the vehicle and how it functions from performing simulations to CAD designs. This year we are doing everything we can to make the vehicle better (from performance to aesthetics), this includes making new interior for the stuff we ripped out. This is exciting because we are redoing the center console with the shifter being electronically controlled versus mechanically. This allows a lot of freedom from a design aspect, we are still in the beginning stages, but I'll be posting sketches and our process using the CAD program NX 5 Unigraphics, which is a really awesome program for pretty much anything related to 3D.
-amorgan
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Monday, October 25, 2010
Color Theory: Simultaneous Contrast
Design 200 is a intro class to design, exploring all fields of design and every aspect, in a short amount of time.
My first real post will be about understanding color theory further, with the topic of simultaneous contrast. This interested me the most when going over color theory, mainly because the basic information on color I have already learned and also being interested in physics, the reason why this happens interests me the most.
A good article I found about the subject is found here: http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/contrast.html , I encourage you to go through it, there are some interesting interactions throughout this article showing simultaneous contrast.
Now for my novice explanation of why this occurs from a physics perspective:
My understanding of this is different than I thought. From what I've learned, the reason why our eye perceives the difference in color is due from the cones in your eye taking in too much of one color and therefore not showing the true color of another color that is overlapping the other. This affects the Hue, Saturation and value of the color you are looking at. Since your cones can only absorb a certain amount of light they will be "fatigued" and not be able to send the correct information to your brain. So this allows only light besides the fatigued cone to be then perceived, or in the amount your eye is then capable of perceiving.
I originally thought that light being a wave, that it was interfering with neighboring colors, but thinking about and reading the above article, I realized that this is not true. Though light does interfere with itself, it doesn't seem to be the effect of simultaneous contrast, at least to amount that is known. It is interesting with whether or not interference does have any effect at all to our perception, might be fun to experiment with that idea.
(corrected my original post)
(http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/EDDOCS/Wavelengths_for_Colors.html) source about wavelengths
(http://astro1.panet.utoledo.edu/~lsa/_color/27_pattern.htm) another source
I would like to better mathematically describe this, but due to time...I'm late for class (sorry Gabe)
-amorgan
My first real post will be about understanding color theory further, with the topic of simultaneous contrast. This interested me the most when going over color theory, mainly because the basic information on color I have already learned and also being interested in physics, the reason why this happens interests me the most.
A good article I found about the subject is found here: http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/contrast.html , I encourage you to go through it, there are some interesting interactions throughout this article showing simultaneous contrast.
Now for my novice explanation of why this occurs from a physics perspective:
My understanding of this is different than I thought. From what I've learned, the reason why our eye perceives the difference in color is due from the cones in your eye taking in too much of one color and therefore not showing the true color of another color that is overlapping the other. This affects the Hue, Saturation and value of the color you are looking at. Since your cones can only absorb a certain amount of light they will be "fatigued" and not be able to send the correct information to your brain. So this allows only light besides the fatigued cone to be then perceived, or in the amount your eye is then capable of perceiving.
I originally thought that light being a wave, that it was interfering with neighboring colors, but thinking about and reading the above article, I realized that this is not true. Though light does interfere with itself, it doesn't seem to be the effect of simultaneous contrast, at least to amount that is known. It is interesting with whether or not interference does have any effect at all to our perception, might be fun to experiment with that idea.
(corrected my original post)
(http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/EDDOCS/Wavelengths_for_Colors.html) source about wavelengths
(http://astro1.panet.utoledo.edu/~lsa/_color/27_pattern.htm) another source
I would like to better mathematically describe this, but due to time...I'm late for class (sorry Gabe)
-amorgan
What this blog is about:
Hey! This is a blog I am starting for my design class. I am an Engineering Physics major, concentrating in Electrical Engineering and also pursing a minor in design (primary focus on Industrial Design) at The Ohio State University. So with that in mind, I am not expert on the many aspects of design.
-amorgan
-amorgan
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