Lord Byron poured himself another glass of wine and held it up to the candle flame admiring the rich color.

There are codes using colors, like traffic lights, the color code employed to mark the nominal value of the electrical resistors or that of the trashcans devoted to specific types of garbage ( paper, glass, biological, etc.

The piece, " Le Marché aux Poissons " (" The Fish Market " in English ), is a color monotype, a one-of-a-kind print made by painting on glass and then transferring the wet paint to a piece of paper.

* 1980: Seaform Series, transparent sculptures of thin glass, strengthened by ribbed strands of color

* 1986: Persian Series, inspired by Middle East glass from the 12th-to 14th-century, featuring more restrained color and room-sized installations

* 1991: Niijima Floats, six-foot spheres of intricate color inspired by Japanese glass fishing floats from the island of NiijimaNiijima Chihuly. com from Chihuly's website * 1992: Chandeliers, starting modestly but by the middle of the decade involving a ton of glass orbs and shapes that in some works look like flowers, others like breasts, and still others like snakes Chihuly has also produced a sizable volume of " Irish cylinders ", photo from lakeview-museum. orgwhich are more modest in conception than his blown glass works.

Very pure gallium metal has a brilliant silvery color and its solid metal fractures conchoidally like glass.

Studio glass or art glass often includes multiple colors which increases the difficulty of production, as each color has different chemical and physical properties when molten.

Color in glass may be obtained by addition of electrically charged ions ( or color centers ) that are homogeneously distributed, and by precipitation of finely dispersed particles ( such as in photochromic glasses ).

A glass melt can also acquire an amber color from a reducing combustion atmosphere.

Most colored glass used in the art market is manufactured in volume by vendors who serve this market although there are some glass makers with the ability to make their own color from raw materials.

This type of glass is widely used for framing presentations and exhibitions in which a precise color representation of the artwork is truly essential or when the background color of the frame is predominantly white.

A silkscreen printed glass mirror is produced using inorganic color ink that prints patterns through a special screen onto glass.

Its Alamo Plaza Restaurant is gone, its pool long since filled in, its original color scheme painted over, its front desk now behind bulletproof glass and its rooms infested with roaches, vermin and a clientele engaged in enough criminal activity that the property averages more than one call for service to police daily.

Neodymium may be used to color glass in delicate shades ranging from pure violet through wine-red and warm gray.

The resulting " Alexandrite " glass remains a signature color of the Moser glassworks to this day.

The sharp absorption bands of neodymium cause the glass color to change under different lighting conditions, being reddish-purple under daylight or yellow incandescent light, but blue under white fluorescent lighting, or greenish under trichromatic lighting.

Since neodymium coloration depends upon " forbidden " f-f transitions deep within the atom, there is relatively little influence on the color from the chemical environment, so the color is impervious to the thermal history of the glass.

and used gradations of color value as well as sharply contrasting elementary colors.

When different colors are used, she is just as likely to color trees purple, hair green, etc..

That is, they used opaque color throughout, getting solid highlights with active lime white.

Even though the stone had been around centuries and was known to both the Sumerians and the Egyptians, both who used the gem for decoration and for playing important parts in their religious ceremonies, any agate of this color from Sicily, once an ancient Greek colony, is called Greek agate.

If an alpha channel is used in an image, it is common to also multiply the color by the alpha value, to save on additional multiplications during compositing.

The alpha component may be used to blend to red, green and blue components equally, as in 32-bit RGBA, or, alternatively, there may be three alpha values specified corresponding to each of the primary colors for spectral color filtering.

Of great surprise to many fans was a brand new color scheme ; apparently the original colors used by the franchise since Major League Baseball awarded it to Jerry Colangelo's ownership group in 1995 were to be discontinued.

" Sedona Red " became the dominant color scheme used throughout Chase Field and in all marketing and promotional materials for the Diamondback ballclub.

The same basic format ( with minor differences mainly related to timing and the encoding of color ) is used for PAL, NTSC and SECAM television systems.

Because of its bright green color when polished, amazonite is sometimes cut and used as a gemstone, although it is easily fractured.

It was given its name from the color of the orange-striped 55 US gallon ( 208 l ) barrels in which it was shipped, and was by far the most widely used of the so-called " Rainbow Herbicides ".

Specialist acrylics have been manufactured and used for lino block printing ( acrylic block printing ink produced by Derivan since the early 1980s ), face painting, airbrushing, water color techniques, and fabric screen printing.

Vermilion paint, hematite, the ink bag of the octopus and the root of a kind of grass or vine were used to color the threads ( Turner Ch.

Due to its beautiful yellow color, it is used as an imitation of gold.

* Low brass is a copper-zinc alloy containing 20 % zinc with a light golden color and excellent ductility ; it is used for flexible metal hoses and metal bellows.

These fruit versions sometimes contain colored pearls ( and / or " jelly cubes " as in the related drink taho ), the color chosen to match whatever fruit juice is used.

In more modern compositions, they are occasionally used for their intonation or tone color.

Worldwide, most survey offices used this printer before color inkjet plotters become popular.

English masonry worker Joseph Aspdin patented Portland cement in 1824 ; it was named because of its similarity in color to Portland limestone, quarried from the English Isle of Portland and used extensively in London architecture.

LCDs, as currently the most common flatscreen technology, have generally inferior color rendition ( despite having greater overall brightness ) due to the fluorescent lights commonly used as a backlight.

Different formulations are used for printer's ink, so there can be variations in the printed color that is pure cyan ink.

This version of rasterization has overtaken the old method as it allows the graphics to flow without complicated textures ( a rasterized image when used face by face tends to have a very block-like effect if not covered in complex textures ; the faces are not smooth because there is no gradual color change from one primitive to the next ).

Chrominance ( chroma or C for short ) is the signal used in video systems to convey the color information of the picture, separately from the accompanying luma signal ( or Y for short ).

Image: Leavessnipedale. jpg | Chlorophyll gives leaves their green color and absorbs light that is used in photosynthesis.

Although Van Gogh never boarded with him, Pissarro did explain to him the various ways of finding and expressing light and color, ideas which he later used in his paintings, notes Lucien.