color circle

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Noun

color circle - a chart in which complementary colors (or their names) are arranged on opposite sides of a circle

color wheel

color chart - a chart displaying colors

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prompted to do so in living color because they found the color circle

Archival Objects and Material Color

The new app, called the Chromosmic Visualizer, guides consumers through a series of sniff samples and prompts them to match each scent to a color using a touch-sensitive color circle and a black-white slider.

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The NCS system gives the opportunity to present the fixed colors in the form of three-dimensional model (in color space), in a horizontal projection (on a color circle) and in a vertical projection (on a color triangle).

Introduction of new technology of fixing traditional colors in the Smolensk architecture (Russia)

To cite an example from the book, the color circle has sectors of an annulus (the region) representing a particular color, say, red (the closer to the center, the smaller the hue).

Conceptual Spaces--The Geometry of Thought

The angular component of a complex value determines the hue by mapping the angle to a corresponding position on a color circle. A color circle, as used here, begins with red at 0 radians and then traverses through green and blue with a return to red at the completion of the circular trip.