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

Not so much by the delightfully odd “Space Babies” episode with its on-the-nose title and guest cast that’s still in diapers but the chromatic cheer of the whole thing.

From Salon • May 10, 2024

A Busoni aficionado, Levit brings tautness without rigidity to tame the sprawling, potentially meandering, Bach-loving “Fantasia Contrappuntistica,” before closing with Busoni’s “Nuit de Noël,” another chromatic fantasia, gently snowy.

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2023

Figure 4.48: Because all the intervals are the same, it doesn't matter much where you begin a chromatic or whole tone scale.

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