Concepts List: Glossary
Acceleration
Achromatic
Additive Color
Analagous Colors
Apparent Texture
Asymmetry
Atmospheric Perspective
Axis
Balance
Brightness
Change (time)
Closure
Color
Color Temperature
Color Wheel
Common Fate
Complementary Colors
Compressive Force
: Compression, Density, Elastic, Expansion, Rigid
Computational Theory of Perception
: blob, edge, vertex, recognition
Continuity
(Gestalt)
Continuity/Discontinuity
Cool Color
Curvilinear
Depth
Depth Cues
Descriptors
Direction
Dynamic
Energetic Force:
Entropy, Friction, Light, Potential Energy
Expressive Color
Figure/Ground
Figure/Ground Ambiguity
Figure/Ground Reversal
File Format
: JPG, GIF, PDF, PNG, PSD, TIF
Focal Point
Force
Form
Geometric
Gestalt
Gradient
Gravitational Force
: Balance, Gravity, Mass, Weight
Growth
Halo Effect
Height
Horizon Line
HSB
(Hue, Saturation, Brightness)
Hue
Known Size or Scale
Light
Line
Linear Perspective
Local Color
Momentum
Monochrome
Motion
Motion Parallax
/ Kinetic Depth
Organic
Orientation
Overlap
Pattern
Physical Texture
Pixel
Plane
Point
Position
Potential Energy
: Chemical, Elastic, Electrical, Gravitational, Thermal
Primary Colors
Progression
Proportion
Proximity
Rectilinear
Reflectivity
Relative Size Relationship
Repetition
Resolution: PPI/DPI
Retinal Disparity
Rhythm
Saturation
Secondary Colors
Shadows/Shading
Shape
Similarity
Simultaneous Contrast
Size or Scale
Speed
Spreading Effect
Stasis
Static
Subtractive Color
Symmetry
Tangent
Tensile Force
: Equilibrium, Release, Stress, Tension, Torsion
Texture
Unity
Vanishing Point
Velocity
Visual Field
Volume
Warm Color
Width