Chroma
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Chroma, the Greek word for color
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In art and entertainment:
Color
Color or colour is the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, green, blue and others. Color derives from the spectrum of light interacting in the eye with the spectral sensitivities of the light receptors...
, may refer to:
- Colorfulness or chroma, the perceived intensity of a specific color
- ChrominanceChrominanceChrominance is the signal used in video systems to convey the color information of the picture, separately from the accompanying luma signal . Chrominance is usually represented as two color-difference components: U = B' − Y' and V = R' − Y'...
or chroma, one of the two components of a television signal - Chroma, a measure of color purity in the Munsell color system
- Chroma ATEChroma ATEChroma ATE Inc., a Taiwan company, is an own brand supplier in electronic test and measurement equipment and systems, providing testing equipment, automatic testing equipment and manufacturing execution system...
, a Taiwanese electronics company
In art and entertainment:
- Chroma (album)Chroma (album)-Credits:* Nic Hudson – guitar* Julia Kugel – backing vocals* Kenneth Mount – programming* Zack Odom – strings* Joseph Pepper – guitar* Will Pugh – vocals, guitar, piano, programming* Ryan Roberts – bass* Kevin Sanders – drums* David Webers – trumpet...
, an album by Cartel - Chroma (ballet)Chroma (ballet)Chroma is a one act contemporary ballet, created by Wayne McGregor for the Royal Ballet. The ballet received its premiere at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, on 17 November 2006. The ballet is performed to a combination of original music by Joby Talbot and arrangements of music by Jack White...
, a ballet by Wayne McGregor - Chroma (comics)Chroma (comics)Chroma is a fictional character that first appeared in Infinity, Inc. #14 as an unknown cosmic entity.-Fictional character biography:...
, a fictional character in the DC Comics universe - Chroma (software)Chroma (software)Chroma is a media player for Mac OS X.Features include playback of DivX/XviD, Quicktime, and other video codecs and support can be added for h264 video and Windows Media Format via third party plug-ins...
, a media player for the Mac OS X platform - Chroma (mobile software), a series of color and design software for mobile devices, including the iOS platform
- Chroma: A Queer Literary JournalChroma: A Queer Literary JournalChroma is a UK-based international literary and arts journal publishing and promoting the work of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered writers and artists. The journal appears twice a year and is supported by funding from Arts Council England...
, a UK-based journal - ARP ChromaARP ChromaThe ARP Chroma is a model of polyphonic synthesizer developed in 1981 by ARP Instruments, Inc. just before that company's bankruptcy and collapse. The design was eventually released by Fender as the Rhodes Chroma, and was one of the early microprocessor-based Analog synthesizers...
or Rhodes Chroma, a polyphonic synthesizer - Chroma, in music theory, a quality of a pitch classPitch classIn music, a pitch class is a set of all pitches that are a whole number of octaves apart, e.g., the pitch class C consists of the Cs in all octaves...
- Chroma, a novel by Frederick BarthelmeFrederick BarthelmeFredrick Barthelme is an American novelist and short story author, well known as one of the seminal writers of minimalist fiction...
- Chroma, a book by Derek JarmanDerek JarmanMichael Derek Elworthy Jarman was an English film director, stage designer, diarist, artist, gardener and author.-Life:...
- Chroma, a fictional supernatural force in the video game FahrenheitFahrenheit (video game)Fahrenheit, also known as Indigo Prophecy in North America, is a cinematic adventure video game developed by Quantic Dream and manufactured and marketed by Atari Europe SAS...
- Chroma, a profession in the video game Phantom BravePhantom Braveis a tactical role-playing game for the Sony PlayStation 2 video game console developed and published by Nippon Ichi Software. It was released on January 22, 2004 in Japan, on August 31, 2004 in North America and on February 4, 2005 in Europe...
- Chroma, a fictional character in the children's novel The Phantom TollboothThe Phantom TollboothThe Phantom Tollbooth is a children's adventure novel and modern fairy tale published in 1961, written by Norton Juster and illustrated by Jules Feiffer. It tells the story of a bored young boy named Milo who unexpectedly receives a magic tollbooth one afternoon and, having nothing better to do,...
, by Norton Juster - Chroma, a contemporary composition by Rebecca SaundersRebecca Saunders-Biography:Saunders studied violin and composition at the University of Edinburgh. This was followed by a scholarship from the DAAD from 1991 to 1994 to study composition at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe with Wolfgang Rihm, and in 1997 a doctorate in composition with Nigel Osborne.She has...