Designing Lightness - Structures For Saving Energy

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Hue is the name of a color in its purest form. For instance, cyan, magenta, and green are pure colors. Depending on the color, form, and size of shapes, we can determine particular moods and send messages. For instance, triangles direct the eyes to a specific point and can also represent stability.

Desiging Lightness – structures for saving energy

Light is an important, if complex, tool in architecture. Not only does it lend atmosphere, texture, and vibrancy, but it is increasingly essential in an age where technology alienates us from nature. In this excerpt from Mary Guzowski's new book, The Art of Architectural Daylighting , she introduces the science and art of daylighting - and details six ways the masters approach the challenge. We preview the forthcoming Refract glass arts festival in Seattle and meet British industrial designer Matthew Hilton to discuss his first sculpture show in London. In the examples above, you would be more likely to trust the repairer in the first image, but would have doubts about the job done by the repairer in the second image. Over the past decade, the “science of daylighting” has matured as practitioners and building-science researchers have continued to demonstrate measurable benefits of daylighting in the areas of energy savings, carbon and greenhouse gas reductions, increased human comfort, and improved productivity and health. Great improvements have also been made in digital rendering, analysis tools, and an ever-increasing number of daylight metrics, guidelines, and assessment methods. These developments have benefited architects and designers in more effectively integrating daylight with other design and performance issues.Two thirds of all cone cells process longer wavelengths of light (i.e., colours like red, orange, yellow), which allows the human eye to perceive more colour detail across warmer colours than for cooler colours 54. Greenish colour gradients tend to under-represent a given data variation compared to yellow-red gradients. Three types of cone cells (for short, medium and, long wavelengths) build the trichromatic visual system that can, as a whole, represent all colours in our visual spectrum 55, 56, 57, 58.

Book Talk – Designing Lightness: Structures for Saving Energy

Interoperable slide microscopy viewer and annotation tool for imaging data science and computational pathology John Lovett is an Australian artist working in oils, watercolor and mixed media. Since commencing his career John has held over thirty five solo exhibitions and taken part in many joint ones. John’s work is represented in private and corporate collections in Australia, United Kingdom, Europe, Asia and USA. John’s passion for his work and his open easy approach to teaching make his books, DVD’s and workshops thoroughly enjoyable, extremely informative and always very popular. His articles are regularly featured in “International Artist” magazine.

Meier, B. J., Spalter, A. M. & Karelitz, D. B. Interactive color palette tools. IEEE Computer Graph. Appl. 24, 64–72 (2004). HSL can be handy when we have a design that uses the same color but with different shades. Consider the following design: ( Large preview) Texture adds a tactile appearance to a design layout. Imagine how a design piece would feel if you touched it. The goal of texture is to add depth to a 2D surface. Color and tone are unique and separate elements. All colors have a tone (degree of lightness of darkness) but tone can exist without color.