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Color Lighting Quiz
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Date:

1. Relative to real life colors, Computer Graphics colors are often:
a. over-saturated
b. under-saturated

2-3. Name two ways you can use color to make an object in a scene stand out.



4. Which color(s) usually appears closer to the viewer?

5. Which color(s) usually appear farther away from the viewer?

6. Are foreground colors more or less saturated?

7-8. Other than underexposing your scene, name two ways to create the impression of darkness in your scene:


9-10. What two things must be known before you can pick a realistic color?


11. List a conventional color balance temperature for an outdoor scene:

12. List a conventional color balance temperature for an indoor scene:

13. Any color source with a color temperature value lower than your selected color balance will be tinted what color?

13. Any color source with a color temperature value higher than your selected color balance will be tinted what color?


14. Fill in the blank:
Generally, the bigger the difference between a light's own color temperature and the scene's color balance, the more _____________ the color of the light will appear.

15. For the following real world light sources, Assign 1 to the source with lowest color temperature, 2 to the source with the next lowest, etc. All the way up to 4 for the source with the highest color temperature:
__ partly cloudy sky
__ candle flame
__ household lightbulb (tungsten)
__ direct sun at noon

16. Flourescent lights often emit what color?

17. Why are flourescent lights and lights from a TV not naturally subject to red/blue color shift?


18. Define "color bleeding":


19. True or False: Colored light in the real world is often spectrally pure.

20. 8-bit computer color produces how many possible colors?



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