- What do I think color is?

我認爲顔色是什麽？

(laughing)

（笑聲）

What is color?

顔色是什麽？

(gentle cheerful music)

（柔和輕快的音樂）

- (laughing) I can't answer that question.

（笑）我無法回答這個問題

- (laughing) What is color?

（笑）顔色是什麽？

Color is a sensation.

顔色是一種感覺

(chiming)

（鐘聲）

- Color is a very personal thing.

顔色是很私人的事

Color is very subjective.

給人的觀感很主觀

It can trigger like a visceral response.

它能觸發本能反應

Like if you smell bacon,

譬如你嗅到培根味

ah, bacon.

啊，是培根

You know, it's like if you see certain kinds of colors,

就像你看見某幾種顔色時

the same exact feeling.

你會有特定的相同感覺

- I don't know. Ask some smart person here.

我不知道，去問這裏其他的聰明人吧

For exam-- (laughing)

例如（笑）

- Color is a term that we use

顔色是我們用來

to describe a collection of attributes,

形容一系列特質的詞語

hue and saturation and value,

包括色調、飽和度和明度

that describes how we see things.

它們描述我們看事物的方式

Hue is what the actual color is in the rainbow spectrum.

色調是指在彩色光譜上實際的顔色

Is it more yellow,

它看起來是比較黃？

or is it more orange?

比較橙？

Bluer or redder?

還是藍、紅？

Value is how bright something is relative to something else.

明度是指某部分相比其他部分有多光亮

Is it white?

它是偏白的嗎？

Is it black?

是偏黑的？

Is it some sort of middle grey?

還是近乎中間的灰色？

Saturation is how intense the color is?

飽和度是指顏色有多濃重

Is it more subdued and grey,

它是比較柔和、呈灰色

or is it more vibrant, almost fluorescence, you know?

還是較鮮豔，甚至是近乎螢光的？

A fully saturated color is quite eye popping.

完全飽和的顏色能令人留下深刻印象

(electricity crackling)

（電的劈啪聲）

Color is everything to artists.

顏色對藝術家來講是一切

- It wasn't until I started working at Pixar

我是直至在皮克斯開始工作時

that I think I had to think about color in a different way,

才想到該用另一個角度去思考顔色

to apply it to a narrative

將它應用於故事中

and it can mean something.

它能代表某些事情

- On Up, there was a scene where Carl's house

在電影《天外奇蹟》裏，有個場面是

got burned by Muntz.

卡爾的房子被蒙茲燒了

It's really one of the lowest points of the film,

這可是電影中的低潮之一

and it's this sunrise.

然後就是日出

Normally sunrises are very beautiful.

通常日出都很美麗

It's the start of a new day,

它是一天的開始

but for this one, we wanted an angry sunrise.

但這個日出，我們想表達憤怒

It was just this beautiful tone of red

正是這美麗的紅色色調

that was so dramatic for me.

我覺得很突出

I think that was really cool.

我想這真是太棒了

- Because the choice of color is so critical to the story telling process,

由於選色對說故事的過程很關鍵

it's really important that we understand

我們要明白選那些顔色背後的科學原理

the science of the choosing of those colors.

這很重要

The first thing to realize about color

關於顏色的第一件事就是

is that color is really made up of light.

顔色是由光線組成的

Light comprises different wavelengths of energy,

光由有著不同波長的能量組成

and when that energy comes through our pupil

當這能量穿過瞳孔

onto our retina inside our eye,

到達我們眼睛上的視網膜時

it becomes nerve impulses, signals,

就會變成神經脈衝和信號

and eventually gets processed by the brain.

最後被大腦處理

So the light is out in the real world.

所以光線存在於現實世界

The color only really exists inside your brain when you perceive it.

顔色只在你特別留意時才存在於大腦中

(fireworks popping)

（煙火聲）

In the rest of this lesson,

在這堂課中

we're gonna dive more into

我們會深入研究

the science and perception of color.

顔色的科學和對它的感知

Let's go.

馬上開始吧