Chromatic (disambiguation)
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Chromatic may refer to:
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In music:
- Chromatic scale, the western-tempered twelve-tone scale.
- Chromatic chord, chords built from tones chromatically altered from the native scale of the musical composition.
- Total chromatic, the use of all twelve pitches of the chromatic scale in tonal music.
- Chromatic fantasia, a specific form of fantasia originating in sixteenth century Europe.
- The Chromatic button accordion
- The chromatic harmonica
- Chromatic genus, a genus of divisions of the tetrachord characterized by an upper interval of a minor third.
In optics, vision and color:
- Chromaticity, the quality of a color as determined by its "purity" and dominant wavelength.
- Chromatic aberration, departures from perfect imaging in optics systems due to dispersion.
- Chromatic dispersion, the dispersion of light due to differing refraction index for different wavelengths.
- RG Chromaticity, a two-dimensional color space in which there is no color intensity information.
- Chromatic adaptation, the ability for some organisms to perceive objects similarly in varying lighting conditions.
In mathematics:
- Chromatic polynomial, a polynomial which encodes the number of different ways to vertex color the graph using n colors.
- Chromatic numbering
- Chromatic index
- Acyclic chromatic number
- Strong chromatic number
- Fractional chromatic number
- Vertex chromatic number
In anthropology:
- Von Luschan's chromatic scale, a method for classifying skin color.
In Dungeons & Dragons:
[edit] See also
In music:
In Greek and Byzantine music:
In optics, vision and color:
- color
- International Commission on Illumination, the international authority on light, illumination, colour, and colour spaces.