Interactive experiments
Small tools for seeing how colors behave together — from wavelength and the visible spectrum to color wheels, complements, and palette behavior.
Experiment 01
A spectrum arranges light by wavelength. A color wheel arranges perceived color relationships. They are related, but they are not the same map.
Visible band
Human vision responds to a limited band of electromagnetic radiation, roughly 380 to 700 nanometers. Shorter ultraviolet and longer infrared wavelengths still exist, but they are outside normal human color vision.
Perceptual map
A color wheel connects red back to violet through purples and magentas. That bridge is perceptual: purple is a real experience, but not one single spectral wavelength.
Experiment 02
Compare a digital CMY/RGB wheel with a painterly RYB wheel so proposed contrast colors and mapped same-color distances can be judged side by side.
RYB display
Lets RYB create its own equal-angle contrast proposal.
Wheel color mode
Uses vivid screen hues so the geometry and contrast spacing are easier to compare.
Wheel comparison
Markers now appear directly on the wheels: the larger marker is the base color, and the smaller markers are the proposed contrast colors for the selected relation. The RYB wheel converts the same selected color into painter-wheel coordinates, so yellow-to-red movement occupies the larger RYB band. The wheel color mode can either isolate vivid hue geometry or use a primary-base approximation.
CMY / screen wheel
Oppositions are calculated as equal angle distances on a screen-style hue wheel.
RYB / painter wheel
Oppositions are shown on a red-yellow-blue tradition, so the suggested contrast can shift.
Coming next
Show how purple and magenta bridge red and violet without being single-wavelength colors.
Compare two matching colors that separate under different light-source assumptions.
Explore why vivid screen colors can shift or dull when translated to print or pigment approximations.