Terimage means Tri Electronic Reflective Image. This acronym was first coined in 1964 when I wrote a story about photography for my science class in Whittier, California. Studying the world which I composed in the frame of my Kodak Intamatic 100 camera, when I was thirteen, living in Den Haag, Holland has lead me on adventures unimaginable to most.
At fifteen years old using my brand new drivers liscense, a blinking red light appeared orange as I cruised through it directly in front of a policemen. It was not a caution light...the blinking orange light, was actually a blinking red light. The policeman told me it was a blinking red light as he handed me my first ticket. Later, the optomitrist explained how, light is percieved by different species and people in diffenent ways. Dog and myself, he said, are color blind. Well I see this background is red, so I'm not blind. Color Blind is not the right word for my vision.
I see the same colors as you, but in a different way. Red, green and blue all look red, green and blue to me. But when viewing a bright green light which is emited from a source, it appears white. This handicap kept me out of the draft in 1968 and and lead me to study surfing and motion pictures while most of my friends either died, were maimed, or moved to Canada. Today, I love being blind!!!
Do you see all the colors in the light when you look at the sun? Or does the sun look white? It's not a big yellow ball, but that's what we use to represent it because it appears yellow when refracted through our atmosphere. As a photographer, people told me being Color Blinkd was a problem. Now, I know itÕs an asset because I utelize what some consider a handicap is really a very unique way of seeing.
I see friends of mine like Elan Sun Star who have taken color to another dimension. Sun is a true artist. Please check out his colors. He's the most highly published photographer in the world because he demands primary colors. What he see's is not what you and I see. Sun sees a vision and creates it. He's the Beethoven of today's photography.
If you really want to know about photography, video and composition, like getting to know a friend, or God, you need to study your subject. IÕve loved both God and light since before I could talk. Both are the same. God is light, reflecting what we do. God can be both good and bad in the same way that light can be both a wave and mass. Both effect every moment of our life, but how often are we aware of them?
ItÕs perspective which changes our illusion of what is real. Look in a mirror, is that you, or just the light reflecting your image? Is it bad to steal, if you never get caught, or does God have an effect on your life? Is Karma real, or just like the illusion in the glass, a reflection of your reality?
For myself, photography is the study of light and meditation(prayer) is the study of moments in this life. For now, we'll study the physics of light and leave God to the moment of our death. You might want to think about this, but for now, during this moment, here is a little reflection on the subject of Light.
Reflected Red, Green and Blue produce the illusion of white. Why?
ItÕs all about our vision and color.
http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/light/u12l2d.html
What three colors make up white light?
http://www.blurtit.com/q397300.html
What is color and how is it made in a computer screen?
http://www.beadville.com/information/tutorials/Basic%20Color/basics.htm
The basics of Color.
http://www.eee.deu.edu.tr/~ozkurt/robotics2005/6/basicsoflight.htm
White is not a color.
http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/light/U12L2d.cfm
Color and Vision
http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/light/u12l2a.cfm#white
Nobody really knows who invented the first glasses.
http://amos.indiana.edu/library/scripts/eyeglasses.html
Wearing glasses or contact lenses sucks. But can you imagine what it was like before they were used? Ben Franklin invented bi-focal glasses?
http://inventors.about.com/od/fstartinventors/ss/Franklin_invent_4.htm
I suppose they were a product of the magnifying glass, or someone who first made glass and realized it could be used to magnify something. That was a long time ago. Glass was first invented by the Sumerian Civilization around 3000 B.C. They prepared by mixing silica and sand in very hot forms. After cooling, what remained was glass. They also added various other chemicals to impart color to the glass.
Today, an optometrist is someone who tells people they're color blind, or does eye exams to see
if they can sell them some corrective lenses, or contacts. Both of these words, optometrist and optician, are
forms of the word optic.
Optics is the branch of physics
that involves the study of light. People who are interested in optics study
about how light is produced, how it is transmitted, how it is measured, how it
is detected, it's speed and how it might be used to change our world. . They study the
visible light spectrum, which is the rainbow of light that we can see from red to
violet, and also ultraviolet and infrared light which we can't see. This light
stuff is very interesting. You can never go faster than the speed of light,
because this would destroy the time/space continuum. We might get into that
when we study Einstein and his Theory of Relativity, but for now, itÕs nice to
know we see because light illuminated our world. It would be really hard to go
skiing, or surfing, or for a nice walk on a warm day in spring, if we didnÕt
have light. As a matter of fact we wouldnÕt have a spring, waves or snow,
without light. But have you ever seen light?
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/hillis/hillis_p2.html
Light travels in waves, which are also called electromagnetic waves. Light waves can reflect, refract, and be absorbed. Light reflects when it bounces back off of an object. Light reflects off of a mirror. When light waves reflect, they bounce back from the surface at the same angle that they hit the surface, in the same way that a billiard ball spins about the edge of a pool table. Light refracts when it passes from one material to another and bends. If you put a pencil in a glass of water, you can see where it seems to bend at the surface of the water. Light is absorbed by most objects. A green object absorbs all of the colors except green; it reflects the green color so green is the color that we see. But, you donÕt really see light. Like God, you only see itÕs effects when it is reflected in the mass of this world.
Of course you can see the sun and you can see the light of a LASER beam, but thatÕs only because it is imposing itÕs electromagnetic waves(mass) on either smoke, or the optic nerve. Like a wave in the sea, it simply moves through a medium. And a wave on a pond is the result of a boy using his energy to lift a stone and throw it into the air and when it hits the water, his energy is dispersed outwardly as waves propagating. If the wind is blowing, itÕs energy will tug on the wave from the friction of itÕs mass moving over the water. If it blows over the wave for several thousand miles, the energy of the wind will build the wave into a mass which can be ridden by the boy who threw the stone.
Here a bit on the relationship of energy and mass.