Colour and Composition

Arranging aesthetic forms of computer graphics

Colour vision
- Light, spectrum and trichromatic vision
- Models of colour synthesis
- History of colour application
- Colour contrasts:
  hue, extension, saturation, temperature, complementarity & simultaneity
Colour meaning
- Psychological effects
- Colour in nature & culture
- Design principles
Image composition
- Motive, role, symmetry, contrast, rhythm
- Perspective and projection
- Aperture effect: depth of field
- Shutter effect: freeze motion, motion blur
- Format, frame & cropping