Second Life and Colour

Introductions
Hello, my name is Michael "Mischa" Culhane, a first year at the University of Auckland studying my Bachelors of Architectural Studies. Not much to say in terms of introductions.

In any case, upon this fine autumn day we at AU are to learn various aspects of Architectural Media studies but I wouldn't want to bore you with the various details. Wait, yes I would.

Colour
The dynamics of colours mixing are defined as either additive or subtractive colour.

Additive colour is created by mixing visible light from different coloured light sources. When concrened with additive colour, when the 3 primary colours (Red, Blue and Green) are added in equal amounts the colour white is yielded. This is caused by the combination and addition of different wavelengths of light.

Photoshop filters demonstrating additive colour dynamics

Subtractive colour, in contrast, occurs when mixing colour pigments causes subtraction of some wavelengths of light and reflecting others, resulting in colour. The primary colours when regarding subtractive colour is Cyan, Yellow and Magenta.

Second Life
Second Life is described as an online virtual world and is a comfortable starting point for 3D modelling on the computer that the course shall ease us into.

Fair enough. Donning the pseudonym "SmilingSnowman", I was sent to a strange pocket dimension where my limbs morphed horrifically to eventually resemble this cute robot I chose beforehand as my avatar. Then I ventured out to the University's server.

Upon many hours of experimentation, the lighting in Second Life was agreeable enough to allow me to demonstrate Additive Lighting. Quite a complex piece of programming now upon closer inspection.

Here I created a little set piece to demonstrate this feature.

All the lights introduced shall have:

    - Glow: 1.00 (maxed)

    - Full Bright: On

    - Shape Texture: Blank

    - Shape Colour corresponding to the light properties

First I introduced a glowing red ring of light against the props, illuminating the surfaces with a bright red.

Second to be introduced is a green light source. The addition of the green light to red caused the surrounding props to have yellow light projected onto them.

Lastly, the addition of blue light caused the white light to be produced equal amounts of red, blue and green was added together. This illustrates perfectly the light dynamics in additive colour

Other Blogs

If you're interested in looking into what other people have worked on regarding Architectural Design and Second Life in the previous years, here are a few links:

http://roxannebottom.blogspot.co.nz

http://2ndlife4life.blogspot.co.nz

http://ninole3.blogspot.co.nz