chromatic

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Since it operated without the pouches of chromatic gel that Samaras had previously manipulated, he employed double exposures, colored lights, and paint to alter his images.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

While it enables useful wavelength-dependent effects, it also causes chromatic aberrations that become more severe as bandwidth increases.

From Science Daily • Feb. 5, 2026

“There is some indication that chromatic composition of light, whether it is outdoors or from digital devices, is an important factor in this whole mechanism,” Khanal said.

From Salon • Mar. 27, 2025

L’Rain — the songwriter and performer Taja Cheek — ponders vengeful, destructive impulses in a near-lullaby that wanders through a chromatic chord progression, building ambivalence into the harmonies.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2023

Young instrumentalists are encouraged to practice playing the chromatic scale in order to ensure that they know the fingerings for all the notes.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones