Color Mixing Top

The evolution of color engineering began 40,000 years ago when primitive artists expressed themselves in colors made from natural pigments. They tested their colors on different surfaces and mixed them to concoct more colors.

When you combine the fun of playing with a spinning top and combine it with interchangeable patterns. Build a Benham’s disk top and learn how black and white spinning designs are processed by the three kinds of cones in your eye. Play with blending lights and making many colors out of three key ones. Color a disc in with your own pattern, test one with holes in it, and time your top and compare with a friend.