Why do pebbles look brighter when wet? Is there a "right" order in which
to arrange a set of colored crayons? Are blue rooms really "cold"? Why
do some clothes change color when ironed? What are the colors you see
when you press your eyes? To answer these and other questions, Hazel
Rossotti uses scientific basics--matter, energy, and eye structure--to
discuss the colors of the natural world, the mechanism of color vision,
and a range of color technology from ceramics to television. She
includes a fascinating discussion of the uses of color, both "prosaic"
(as for camouflage, signaling, and symbolism) and "poetic" (for
conveying mood in art and language). Dealing with subjects from
refraction to rainbows, chlorophyll to color blindness, this book will
appeal both to the general reader and to the scientist.