WO2005081203A1

WO2005081203A1 - Art cubes

Info

Publication number: WO2005081203A1
Application number: PCT/GB2005/000444
Authority: WO
Inventors: Denise Slattery
Original assignee: Denise Slattery
Priority date: 2004-02-17
Filing date: 2005-02-09
Publication date: 2005-09-01

Abstract

The cubes are made up of rigid card or plastic. The optimum size of the cubes measures 150mm (6') square, but can vary according to the users' requirements. On the centre of each of the facets of the cubes there is either a raised, or indented area, (number 1 and 2 on the drawings). These areas begin at 34mm (1' 5/16th), from the edges of each face and raise or indent by 25mm (1') to a central square, which measures 50mm (2') across. The cubes come with either three facets with raised central areas or three facets with central indented areas or with six facets all of which have either raised or indented central areas. The cubes come with pre-coloured sides or in a neutral colour to which colour or pre-coloured templates can be applied by the user as required.

Description

ART CUBES

Background

Artists and scientists have for many centuries worked from the colour wheel. The six basic-colour wheel shows the three primary and secondary colours and their relationship to each other. This colour wheel can be expanded to include the whole spectrum of colours as permutations of these six basic colours. Such colour wheels are used as references in many different areas of activity beyond the specialist fields of science and arts.

Problem The colour wheels and all their permutations, as references, are usually produced in a two-dimensional format. However, this two-dimensional format cannot show how each of these colours changes under differing lighting conditions nor can it show the changes in tonal values of the colours under different lighting.

The Art Cubes are designed to show the effects, in three-dimensions, of differing lighting conditions on colours.

The Art Cubes

Each cube is made up of six facets and has on each of its sides either a raised central area or a central indented area. Light reaching the cube is reflected from the sides of the cubes, including from the central raised and indented central areas, thus producing differing tonal values on the sides of the cubes. The cubes offer a way to learn, from observation, in three-dimensions, the basic principles of colour theory, or to study the effects of lighting upon colour schemes of the users' choice.

The Art Cubes are ideally made up of a rigid plastic or card, but can be made of any other smooth material, such as wood or metal, which allows the cubes to keep their distinctive shapes.

The overall optimal size of the cubes is 150mm x 150mm (6" x 6"), but can vary in size according to usage.

Art Cube Number 1 : The Colour Cube This Cube demonstrates the six principal colours on the colour wheel; the three primary colours; red, yellow and blue; and the three secondary colours; orange, green and violet. Each side of the Art Cube is coloured with one of these principal colours. The colouring on each of the sides of this cube is such that opposite sides are coloured according to placement of that colour on the conventional colour wheel. The order of colours on the sides of the cube is, therefore, as follows:

The red side is opposite the green side The blue side is opposite the orange side The yellow side is opposite the violet side

In addition, this arrangement allows, in three-dimensions:- The three 'cool' colours of yellow, blue and green or the three 'warm' colours of red, orange and violet, to be viewed simultaneously. The three primary colours of red, yellow and blue or the three secondary colours of green, orange and violet to be viewed simultaneously.

Raised and indented areas

In addition, each side of the cube has at its centre either a raised or indented area the same colour as that of the respective side of which it forms a part. The raised areas are on three sides of the cube and the remaining three sides have indented areas. Both the raised and indented areas have bevelled sides. This is to maximise the effects of the lighting in terms of tonal variations. The design of these raised or indented areas is to differentiate between the primary colours, (the sides with the raised areas), and the secondary colours, (the sides with the indented areas).

Art Cube Number 2: The Artists' Cube This cube shares similar properties to that of the Colour Cube in that it is for use as a teaching or learning device. However, this cube need not necessarily take the overall shape of the Colour Cube on which there are three facets with raised central areas and three facets with indented central areas. These help the users with the identification of the colours they wish to study, but is not an essential feature. This design is optional. This cube can therefore be made up of either six facets which have raised central squares or six facets that have indented central areas, or a mixture of both. This cube does not have coloured sides. Instead, it is either made of a material which can be coloured, and this colour is easily removable, or is made of a material which allows pre-printed templates to be applied to each of its sides, and be removable. This allows the users to control the colours they wish to study.

Art Cube Number 3: Decorators' Cube. The purpose of this cube is to aid the visualisation of colour and the range of its tonal values for the purpose of interior decoration. The shape of this cube can differ from that of the Colour Cube, in that all the six sides may be either raised or indented. This cube, like the Artists' Cube does not have coloured sides but is made of a material which can be coloured, but is not removable or it can have pre-painted templates applied to each of its sides.

Art Cube Number 1 , the Colour Cube, has coloured sides, as described above. Art Cubes Numbers 2, the Artists' Cube and Art Cube Number 3 the Decorators' Cube, have neutral coloured sides.

Drawings

Sheet 1/2

Figure 1 : Shows the design for the Art Cube Number 1.

Figure 2: Number 1. shows the raised area at the centre of three out of the six sides of Cube Number 1 , the Colour Cube or Art Cube Number 2, the Artists' Cube. This area has bevelled edges at 45 degrees to the surface on which it sits. The raised sides start at 34mm (1" 5/16*), from the edges of the cube face and measure 25mm (1"), up to a central square. The central square measures 50mm (2"), across.

Figure 3: Number 2. shows the indented area at the centre of the remaining three sides of Art Cube Number 1, the Colour Cube or Art Cube Number 2, the artists' Cube. As with Figure 1 , the sides slope at an angle of 45 degrees, but in reverse, into the side of the cube, starting at 34mm (1" s from the edges of the cube. The depth of these sides measure 25mm, (1"), as with Figure 1, but invert to the central square. The central square measures 50mm (2").

Sheet 2/2

Figure 4: Shows the alternative design for Art Cubes 2 and 3, the Artists' Cube and the Decorators' Cube, whereby all the six facets of the cube have raised central areas.

Figure 5: Shows the alternative design for Art Cubes 2 and 3, the Artists' Cube and the Decorators' Cube, whereby all the six facets of the cubes have indented central areas

Claims

CLAIM

Learning or visualising tools whereby each device consists of a cube so that each side of each respective cube is dedicated to a colour and is shaped so as to create different tonal ranges within each of those colours and which are affected by differing lighting effects in three dimensions.