. Thinking, feeling, doing . ine ofred before the difference is detected. The result depends upon the sensitiveness of the per-son. A dyer will detect minute differences that escapeordinary individuals ; persons who have paid little atten-tion to art are often incapable of detecting large differ-ences. It has been proven that the sensitiveness to color dif-ferences increases with the age of school children. Theresults are given in Fig. 93. The figures at the bottomindicate the ages ; those at the side the relative amounts Color Sensitiveness. 171 of difference that could be just detected. The
. Thinking, feeling, doing . ine ofred before the difference is detected. The result depends upon the sensitiveness of the per-son. A dyer will detect minute differences that escapeordinary individuals ; persons who have paid little atten-tion to art are often incapable of detecting large differ-ences. It has been proven that the sensitiveness to color dif-ferences increases with the age of school children. Theresults are given in Fig. 93. The figures at the bottomindicate the ages ; those at the side the relative amounts Color Sensitiveness. 171 of difference that could be just detected. The greaterthe difference, the less the sensitiveness and the higherthe curve. The steady descent of the curve shows thegain. In general, the girls were more sensitive than theboys. The sensitiveness depends upon the strength of the Dependence on . the intensity. light. In very strong or very weak light it is much lessthan in moderate light. The color of an object depends on the color of the SENSITIVENESS TO COLOR % ~J t y *» V *» 73 7f T 71 If Fig. 93. Children have Finer Eyes for Color as they Grow Older. neighboring objects. If two designs are executed in thesame gray, they will appear different if the grounds areof different colors. If the grounds are red and yellowrespectively, one ornament will appear somewhat greenand light, the other somewhat blue and dark. The ef-fect is increased by placing tissue paper over them. Yetboth grays are exactly alike. The color of the sur-rounding ground affects the gray. Bits of gray paper laid on colored paper show the sameresult. If the colored paper be tipped so that the smallpiece slowly slides off, the colored tinge of the gray canbe seen to slip off as the paper goes over the edge. This influence of one color over another is called con- The color of anobject dependson its surround-ings. Contrast. 172 Thinking, Feeling, Doing. Effect of con-trast. Defective color-seeing.
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