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definition of color wheel

The term 'chromatic circle' is used to refer to the geometric and flat representation of colors. The chromatic circle is nothing more than a symbolization of the scale of colors that make up the universe and that human beings can observe with their vision. These colors are arranged in a staggered and progressive manner between different shades of the same color that bring one or another different color closer to each other.

There are many different ways to represent the color wheel. However, something that always has to be present is the scale of colors that give way from one to another. The main colors found in a chromatic circle are six: red, yellow and blue (primary colors or that do not require another to form) and violet, orange and green (secondary colors or colors that are formed by starting from the alternative mixture of the first three). Each chromatic circle can have a greater or lesser number of internal tones between one color and another, for example three different tones between yellow and red will give an orange that slowly intensifies its tone as it approaches red and moves away from yellow .

In addition, the chromatic circle also allows us to represent different shades that are more or less close to black or white, and here the term of luminosity comes into play. Thus, in the internal tones between each color nuance we find lighter and darker options. The saturation of a color will also be given by the presence of gray in its hue, with the greater the presence of gray, the less saturated it will be.

The chromatic circle basically serves to order and classify the different chromatic possibilities that are observed in the universe from the presence of light or darkness. These charts or graphs are especially used by scientists and artists and are achievable in many different ways and means.

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