Design a Museum Display
For this project, you'll set up a museum display that conveys how spectra are used in art conservation.Chokha Painting Part 2: Paint Colors and Spectra
Artwork. Art conservators have taken reflection spectra of different regions of interest, marked by the white and black squares. The wavelengths of light that are reflected by the paint in the visible part of the spectrum determines what color our eyes see.
Hover your mouse over the painting to see an enlarged view of that region.
Spectrum Tool. View each "mystery pigment" spectrum and see if you can identify what color and region of interest it corresponds to in the painting.
- Use the Select mystery pigment dropdown menu to view each spectrum.
- Under Normalize?, click Visible.
- Use what you learned about how light colors mix (Modules 1 & 3) to identify what color corresponds to each spectrum.
Spectrum Notebook. Draw a line from each spectrum to the corresponding region of interest on the painting.
Simulation. If you'd like a refresher on how light colors mix, double-click the "RGB Bulbs" to launch the Color Mixing simulation.
Brightness 