If red paint is illuminated by blue light, it will be absorbed by the red paint, creating the appearance of a black object.

She has such a gift for seamlessly blending her vivid descriptions with her characters, and the actions which they take. But Joseph is distracted by gold fever after finding some of "the colour," and he is haunted by memories of the heinous act that led to his flight from England. A dominant theory of color vision proposes that color information is transmitted out of the eye by three opponent processes, or opponent channels, each constructed from the raw output of the cones: a red–green channel, a blue–yellow channel, and a black–white "luminance" channel. Not telling Harriet about the find, Joseph abandons the farm and travels by boat to Hokitika on the West Coast of the South Island where major gold strikes have occurred.

This leaves the accent colour, used sparingly to create a pop, usually through accessories such as frames and throw pillows.

Restoration, the first of her novels to feature Robert Merivel, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Little is known outside the South Pacific of New Zealand's mid-19th century gold rush that brought thousands of hopefuls to the Land of the Long White Cloud. Colors can also be additively mixed (commonly used for actual light) or subtractively mixed (commonly used for materials). For convenience, colors can be organized in a color space, which when being abstracted as a mathematical color model can assign each region of color with a corresponding set of numbers. Colors observed during that period will appear to lack the color component detected by the desensitized photoreceptors.Red, green, and blue are the additive primary colors normally used in additive color systems such as projectors, televisions, and computer terminals. These many characterizations could verge on cliches if it weren't for the care that Tremain takes in presenting these characters' stories. You can use a prism to split (or disperse) white light into a spectrum of colours: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Potentially melodramatic, but not at all in its delicate containment, the story swoops through the agony of the Gold Rush in New Zealand, covering a range of engagements between people from different backgrounds: settlers and gold-diggers from Norfolk, local Maori people and Chinese fortune-seekers, people looking for adventure, redemption and connection.

Eventually, the young woman decides that seeking clarification in her relationship to Joseph will be essential for her own future. There is a good plot here which doesn't get in the way of good characterization of the two main characters.Additive coloring Additive color mixing: combining red and green yields yellow; combining all three primary colors together yields white.