Équations du Chroma Colour Palette
Colour collections based on different types of analysis and sampling methods: nonuple, hue, saturation, … aleatoric. Output to a few different referential composition types. Option text output unique colours in hexadecimal. Colour analysis is a broad term that covers the methods and techniques for measuring, describing, and interpreting colours in various contexts. It can mean slightly different things depending on the field—ranging from scientific colorimetry to color usage in design and branding.
colour, color, n. 1 Forms: 3-6 colur, 4 colure, coulur, 4-7 coloure, 3- colour, 5- color. Also 4-7 collor, 5-6 colowr(e, 6 cooler, -ore, coulor(e, coullour, -or, cullor, -our, 6-7 coulour, -er, collour, culler.[Early ME. colur, later colour, color, a. OF. color, culur, colur, later colour, coulour (retained in AFr.), couleur (= Pr., Sp. color, It. colore):—L. colōr-em. Latin long ō passed in OF. into a very close sound intermediate between ō and ū, both of which letters, and subsequently the digraph ou, were used to express it; in an accented syllable the sound at length changed to ö written eu, whence mod.F. couleur. The OE. word was híw, hue. Colour, corresponding to the late AFr., has been the normal spelling in Eng. from 14th c.; but color has been used occasionally, chiefly under L. influence, from 15th c., and is now the prevalent spelling in U.S.] colour, color, n. 1 I. As a property or quality. colour, color, n. 1 1. The quality or attribute in virtue of which objects present different appearances to the eye, when considered with regard only to the kind of light reflected from their surfaces. The particular colour of a body depends upon the molecular constitution of its surface, as determining the character and number of the light-vibrations which it reflects. Subjectively, colour may be viewed as the particular sensation produced by the stimulation of the optic nerve by particular light-vibrations. This sensation can also be induced by other means, such as pressure of the eye-ball, or an electric current. 1398: Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xix. viii. (1495) 869 “Colour accordyth to lyghte as the doughter to the moder.” 1532: G. Du Wes Introd. Fr. in Palsgr. 920 “Colour is lyght incorporate in a body visyble pure & clene.” 1594: T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 71 “This part of light that is vpon thicke bodies, is called colour.” 1764: Reid Inquiry vi. v. 179 “Philosophers affirm that colour is not in bodies but in the mind; and the vulgar affirm that colour is not in the mind, but is a quality of bodies.” 1856: Ruskin Mod. Paint. III. iv. xiv. 42 “Colour is the most sacred element of all visible things.” 1869: Tyndall Notes on Light 40 “Colour is due to the extinction of certain constituents of the white light within the body, the remaining constituents which return to the eye imparting to the body its colour.” 1875: Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 274 “Would you say that whiteness is colour or a colour?” colour, color, n. 1 2. a. A particular hue or tint, being one of the constituents into which white or `colourless' light can be decomposed, the series of which constitutes the spectrum; also any mixture of these. In speaking of the colours of objects, black and white, in which the rays of light are respectively wholly absorbed and wholly reflected, are included. Often used spec. of a hue or tint distinct from the prevailing tone, which may be black, white, or some positive colour. Thus in Bot. it is specifically used of any hue save green, `white being regarded as a colour, and green not' (Treas. Bot. 1866). fundamental, primary, or simple colours: formerly, the seven colours of the spectrum, viz. red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet; now, the three colours red, green, and violet (or, with painters, red, yellow, and blue), out of different combinations of which all the others are produced. 1290: Lives Saints (1887) 216 “And axede him of ȝwuch colur were heuene op-riȝt þere.” 1300: Cursor M. 9913 (Cott.) “Thre colurs o sun-dri heu [Gött. colouris, Fairf. colours].” 1483: Cath. Angl. 86 “A Culoure, color. Of diuerse color, discolor.” 1552-3: Inv. Ch. Goods Staffordsh. in Ann. Litchfield IV. 60 “One cope of dyvers colowres of sylke.” 1577: B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iv. (1586) 167 “Hee changeth..like the Chamælion, to al colours of the Rainebow.” 1599: Thynne Animadv. (1875) 48 “Darkyshe Coolor.” 1605: Camden Rem. 6 “Depainted..in the alehouse coulours.” 1650: T. B. Worcester's Apoph. 80 “Various both in shape and coulours.” 1671: Newton in Phil. Trans. VI. 3081 “Colours are..Original and connate properties, which in divers Rays are divers.” 1796: H. Hunter tr. St. Pierre's Stud. Nat. (1799) I. 511 “The seven primitive colours.” 1863: E. Atkinson tr. Ganot's Physics 555 “From a mixture of red, green, and violet all possible colours may be constructed, and hence these three spectral colours are called the fundamental colours.” 1884: Graphic 8 Nov. 490/1 “Grapes beginning to turn colour.” colour, color, n. 1 b. Heraldic tincture. 1450: Holland Howlat 420 “Off metallis and colouris in tentfull atyr.” 1486: Bk. St. Albans, Her. Aja, “It is shewyd by the forsayd colowris wych ben Worthy and wych ben Royall.” 1659: Vulgar Errours Censured v. 10. 96 “Colour upon Colour is ill Heraldry.” 1766-87: Porny Heraldry 19 “The Colours generally made use of in Heraldry are nine.” 1882: Cussans Hand-bk. Heraldry 50 “The tinctures employed in Heraldry are of three kinds: Metals, Colours, and Furs.” colour, color, n. 1 c. spec. The hue of the darker (as distinguished from the `white') varieties of mankind; often in phrase, a person (man, etc.) of colour: in America, esp. a person of Black descent. 1400: Mandeville (Roxb.) vii. 24 “Þe folk þat wones in þat cuntree er called Numidianes..þai er blakk of colour.” 1796: B. Edwards St. Domingo i. (1801) 25 “Three great classes: 1st pure whites, 2nd people of colour..3rd negroes and mulattoes..The class which..is called people of colour originates from an intermixture of the whites and the blacks.” 1798: Ferriar Illustr. Sterne ii. 43 “Discussion of the causes of colour in negroes.” 1803: Naval Chron. IX. 111 “The Bermudian pilots are men of colour.” 1883: Stevenson Treasure Isl. ii. vii. (1886) 57 “She is a woman of colour.” 1890: Pall Mall G. 20 Jan. 2/1 “Loudly did he bewail the difficulty of making `the colour' stick to work.” colour, color, n. 1 d. fig., esp. in phrases, in which the literal sense is always present to the mind, as to cast or put false, lively, etc., colours upon; to paint in bright, dark, etc., colours; to see (a thing) in its true colours, etc.: cf. the senses under II. 1531: Elyot Gov. i. xv, “He wyll..sette a false colour of lernyng on propre wittes, whiche wyll be wasshed away with one shoure of raine.” 1576: Fleming Panoplie Ep. 377 “To paint out that puisaunt Prince, in such lively colours as hee deserveth.” 1699: Bentley Phal. 540 “He puts a false colour upon one part of his Argument.” 1711: Vind. Sacheverell 21 “Charg'd with casting very odious and black Colours upon the Dissenters.” 1737: Whiston Josephus' Antiq. xvi. vii. 1 “Desirous to put handsome colours on the death of Mariamne.” 1797: Godwin Enquirer i. ii. 8 “Exhibit things in their true colours.” 1849: Grote Greece ii. xlviii. (1862) IV. 275 “The bright colours and tone of cheerful confidence, which pervade the discourse.”
Erratum Quantization
Classic image dithering in various savory flavours. Image dithering is the practice of using patterns of small dots of limited colors or shades to simulate a wider range of tone. Although the term “dithering” gained prominence in digital imaging, its roots go back to analog printing techniques like halftoning. In the 19th Century newspapers and magazines needed to reproduce grayscale or continuous-tone images using only black ink on white paper. The solution was to break images into tiny dots of varying size and spacing. At normal viewing distances, these dots blend visually to mimic different shades of gray. Although not typically called “dithering” at that time, halftoning laid the groundwork for later digital techniques. In the mid-20th century, as computers began to handle images, early systems had very limited color depths (for example, 1-bit monochrome or 8-bit palettes). This meant images often appeared “banded” or blocky when converted directly to fewer colors. Engineers experimented with patterns to simulate additional tones or colors, borrowing from printing concepts. Robert W. Bayer developed a dithering matrix approach—often known as Bayer dithering—that systematically arranges thresholds in a small “dither matrix.” Each pixel’s intensity is compared to a pattern of thresholds in the matrix, leading to a regular, “checkerboard-like” pattern in the final dithered image. This method is computationally simple and was widely used on early systems because it could be done quickly with basic hardware or software. Perhaps the greatest leap in digital dithering quality came from error diffusion methods, which attempt to push the “quantization error” (the difference between the original pixel value and the rendered pixel value) into neighboring pixels, rather than using a fixed threshold pattern.
dither, v. 1. intr. Orig. chiefly dial., to tremble, quake, quiver, thrill. Now also in gen. colloq. use: to vacillate, to act indecisively, to waver between different opinions or courses of action. 1649: Depos. Cast. York (Surtees) 29 “He saw the said Sara Rodes..her body quakeing and dithering about halfe a quarter of an hower.” 1666: tr. Horace Odes i. xxiii, “So tremulous is she Dith'ring both in heart and knee.” 1820: Clare Rural Life (ed. 3) 47 “Needy Labour dithering stands.” 1828: in Craven Gloss. 1891: Mrs. L. Adams Bonnie Kate II. iii. 85 “Kate would not be there to hear it [the organ] boom, and thrill, and `dither'. [In most dialect glossaries as far south as Shropsh., Leicester, Northamp.]” 1908: `I. Hay' Right Stuff i. 6 “If there is a viva-voce, be sure to speak up and give your answers as though you were sure of them... The one thing the examiners will not thole is a body that dithers.” 1923: H. C. Bailey Mr. Fortune's Practice iii. 81 “All newspapers are run by madmen, but the `Watchman' merely dithers.” 1927: Manch. Guardian Weekly 16 Dec. 463/1 “While Governments dither and talk limply of disarmament and peace large numbers of normally inarticulate citizens grow increasingly restive.” 1930: J. B. Priestley Angel Pavement vii. 359 “`I don't know what on earth you're trying to say,' she told him... `Oh, don't dither so much, silly.'” 1932: C. Williams Greater Trumps x. 168 “She reordered her thoughts; this was mere dithering.” 1938: E. Bowen Death of Heart ii. v. 255 “The lady..was already dithering round a table of new novels.” 1948: `N. Shute' No Highway i. 27, “I don't think it [sc. a tailplane] had any continuous movement—it wasn't dithering all the time.” 1959: Times 14 Dec. 13/4 “She was the first producer we had ever had who never dithered about which was Up Stage and which Down.” dither, v. 2. To confuse, perplex, make nervous (esp. in pass.). So ˈdithered ppl. a., confused, perplexed; also (Austral.), drunk. 1919: Masefield Reynard 98 “He's done: he's dithered.” 1932: N. Lindsay Cautious Amorist v. 70 “Dithered we [w] as already by the booze we had ashore.” 1936: D. G. Smith Call it a Day ii. ii. 75 “It's these girls in the shops. They just dither you.” 1948: V. Palmer Golconda xvii. 140 “I've seen him so dithered by printed words he didn't know whether it was this week or next.” dither, v. Hence ˈdithering vbl. n. and ppl. a.; dithering-grass, quaking-grass, Briza media. 1821: Clare Vill. Minstr. II. 193 “How have I joy'd, with dithering hands, to find Each fading flower.” 1878-86: Britten & Holland Plant-n., “Dithering Grass, Briza media. Lanc.” 1890: R. Kipling Soldiers Three 65 “Thomas in bulk can be worked up into ditthering, rippling hysteria.” dither, n. a. The action of dithering; vibration. 1878: F. W. Williams Midl. Railw. 651 “The firmness with which one has to stand on the footplate in order to resist the `dither' of the engine.” 1888: Engineer 24 Feb. 163/3 “The range of the reciprocation of the tool..is not much more than a vibration or dither.” ˈdither, n. b. A state of tremulous excitement or apprehension; chiefly in phr. all of a dither; also, vacillation; a state of confusion. colloq. or dial. 1819: `P. Bobbin' Sequel to Lanc. Dial. 6 (E.D.D.), “I'm aw on o' dither, if th' wynt bo sturs a twig.” 1891: C. Wordsworth Rutland Words 11 “Those children keep me in the dithers, they do.” 1899: Watts-Dunton Aylwin xii. 331 “The sight o' both on us..might make the poor body all of a dither if she was very ill.” 1929: J. B. Priestley Good Comp. iii. ii. 500 “They'll rehearse all right... When it comes to the night, all of a dither.” 1931: E. Sackville-West Simpson iii. xvii, “She quickly pulled herself together, feeling that such a state of dither would not, if she showed it, illustrate her name.” 1939: N. Marsh Overture to Death xxi. 243 “Eleanor was thrown into a dither by finding us there together.” 1957: S. Jameson Cup of Tea for Mr. Thorgill ii. 31 “Always in a dither of enthusiasm and misplaced devotion—and what a bore that is!” 1958: Sat. Rev. Lit. 31 May 8/3 “She came up with Stanley Baldwin and his policy of delusion and dither, which left England nearly helpless against Hitler.” 1970: M. Pereira Pigeon's Blood xi. 127 “Such brains are usually characterised by two things: the speed with which they can reach vital decisions; and the speed with which they can grasp how to implement such decisions. A total absence of dither, if you like.”
Gradients 画像のグラデーション
Arbitrary linear colour gradient interpolation. In simplest terms, a color gradient is a way of blending two or more colors so that one color gradually changes into the next across a specified distance or direction. Instead of jumping from color A to color B, a gradient smoothly interpolates between the two, creating a continuous progression of hues or shades.
gradient, a. and n. [ad. L. gradient-em pr. pple. of gradī to walk, f. grad-us step.] gradient, a. and n. A. adj. gradient, a. and n. 1. a. Of animals: Characterized by taking steps with the feet, as their distinctive mode of progression; walking, ambulant. 1641: Wilkins Math. Magick ii. iv. (1648) 174 “Amongst these gradient Automata, that iron spider mentioned in Walchius is more especially remarkable.” 1663: R. Boyle Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos. i. ii. 40 “But it is not so conspicuous in gradient animals (if I may so speak) as in swimming ones.” 1668: Wilkins Real Char. 161 “Oviparous Beasts..Gradient; having four feet.” 1822: T. Taylor Apuleius 300 “There are animals adapted to the several parts, the volant living in the air, and the gradient on the earth.” gradient, a. and n. b. Her. Said of a tortoise depicted as walking. 1780: Edmondson Her. II. Gloss. 1828-40: Berry Encycl. Her. I. gradient, a. and n. 2. Of a railway line: Rising or descending by regular degrees of inclination. rare —0. (? A figment.) 1855: in Ogilvie, Suppl. Hence in mod. Dicts. gradient, a. and n. B. n. gradient, a. and n. 1. a. Of a road or railway: Amount of inclination to the horizontal; degree of slope; = grade n. 10. This sense can hardly have been evolved from that of the Lat. pple. or the Eng. adj.; possibly it was a new formation on grade, after the supposed analogy of quotient. 1835: Railway Mag. Dec. 264 “The line of Railroad here proposed..passing over the most easy and beautiful tract of country..with the most favourable gradients.” 1836: Dubl. Rev. May 225 “In describing the gradients of a railway, it is usual to state the rise per mile in feet.” 1836: Mech. Mag. 6 Aug. XXV. 317 “In a contemporary journal there appears a violent tirade against the word gradient as at present used by civil engineers.” 1861: Smiles Engineers II. 429 “One in thirty being about the severest gradient at any part of the road.” 1868: Peard Water-Farm. xi. 111 “Wherever they have been constructed on a gradient of 1 in 9..they have answered admirably.” 1880: Haughton Phys. Geog. v. 241 “The uniformly increasing gradient with which the pampas everywhere rise.” 1884: American VIII. 86 “The road was built with needlessly steep gradients.” fig. 1868: W. H. Dixon Spirit Wives I. xv. 159 “That duality in the soul of nature..led by an easy gradient into a state of manners, as between brother and sister, which [etc.].” gradient, a. and n. b. A part of a road which slopes upward or downward; a portion of a way not level. 1845: Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1844 ii. 96 “It was necessary that that railway should present long and very steep gradients.” 1915: R. B. Holt Tramway Track Constr. & Maintenance ix. 114 “The wear on the rails on all parts of the gradient, both on the up track and on the down track, is exceedingly irregular.” 1971: Homes & Gardens Aug. 90/1 “The train..could be heard puffing like an old man, `Chuff, chuff, chuff', as it travelled up the gradient approaching the cutting.” 1971: Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 27 Aug. 12/3 “Snow drove into our faces and on the steep gradients where skis had to be removed we stumbled in deep powder.” gradient, a. and n. 2. transf. Orig., the proportional amount of rise or fall of the barometer or thermometer in passing from one region to another. Now in wider use: a continuous increase or decrease in the magnitude of any quantity or property along a line from one point to another; also, the rate of this change, expressed as the change in magnitude per unit change in distance. The `barometric gradient' is expressed in hundredths of an inch to a degree of a great circle; thus `a gradient of 4 means that over a distance of 60 nautical miles, the barometer rises 4 / 100 or 1 / 25 of an inch' (Huxley Physiogr. 95). 1870: Everett Deschanel's Nat. Philos. xiii. 168 “Generally speaking, the wind blows from regions of high to regions of low barometer, and with greater force as the barometric gradient is steeper.” 1876: Tait Rec. Adv. Phys. Sci. xi. 263 “The temperature will fall off by a uniform gradient.” 1878: Huxley Physiogr. 95 “If the isobars run close together it shows that the gradient is high, and therefore the winds will be strong.” 1880: Times 11 Aug. 11/6 “Gradients for westerly winds lay over Scotland, and for easterly winds over the Bay of Biscay.” 1882: Nature XXVI. 11 “The primary cause of cyclones, according to Ferrel, is a horizontal temperature gradient.” 1886: J. A. Fleming Short Lect. Electr. Artisans vii. 122 “Along the lead there is a regular fall or gradient of [electrical] pressure.” 1892: W. Peddie Man. Physics ix. 132 “The rate of variation of density per unit of length is r... The quantity r is generally called the `concentration-gradient'.” 1898: Proc. R. Soc. LXIII. 364 “The kathode fall is constant for all pressures and currents whilst the potential gradient along the rest of the tube is variable.” 1902: Poynting & Thomson Prop. Matter xviii. 205 “The ratio of the stress to the velocity gradient is called the viscosity of the fluid.” 1910: Encycl. Brit. V. 891/2 “This outflow of heat necessitates a rise of temperature with increase of depth. The corresponding gradient is of the order of 1C. in 100 ft.” 1948: Glasstone Textbk. Physical Chem. (ed. 2) iv. 260 “The gradient is actually negative, that is the concentration decreases from left to right.” 1957: Encycl. Brit. X. 681/2 “He proposed to measure the rate of change or gradients in the gravitational field.” 1962: A. R. W. Hayes Revision Physics 98 “We must measure..the uniform temperature gradient along the bar—found from readings of thermometers placed in mercury..in holes bored in the specimen.” 1970: Nature 19 Dec. 1225/1 “There is a gradient of dormancy within the spikelet, the larger proximal seed being less dormant than the smaller distal seed, while a much smaller third seed..is extremely dormant.” gradient, a. and n. b. spec. in Embryol., such an increase or decrease, along an axis of an organism or a part, in the potential for developing into an organ or in a related bodily process. 1915: C. M. Child Individuality in Organisms iii. 65 “Gradients in rate of cell division, size of cells, condition or amount of protoplasm in the cells, rate of growth, and rate and sequence of differentiation are very characteristic features of both animal and plant development. Such gradients are definitely related to the axes of the individual or its parts, and are..expressions of axial metabolic gradients.” 1924: Bellamy & Child in Proc. R. Soc. B. XCVI. 141 “In a protoplasm of specific hereditary constitution, such a gradient is adequate as the initiating factor in the axial differentiation characteristic of that species.” 1953: J. S. Huxley Evol. in Action i. 29 “Gradients exist in the developing organism—gradients in metabolism, growth-potential, and other factors. Genes altering the shape and intensity of such gradients will affect a number of parts simultaneously.” 1970: F. Crick in Nature 31 Jan. 420/1 “It is an old idea that `gradients' are involved in embryological development... Many of the gradients to which Child referred seem more likely, in retrospect, to be the results of development rather than its cause. An outsider to embryology has the impression that in recent years gradients have become a dirty word.” gradient, a. and n. 3. Math. A rational integral function of a number of quantics of assigned weights, which is of one degree and one weight throughout (Prof. Elliott). 1887: Sylvester in Amer. Jrnl. Math. IX. 2 “A rational intergral homogeneous and isobaric function (or, to avoid a tedious periphrasis, say a gradient).” 1895: Elliott Algebra Quantics 145, 146, 233. gradient, a. and n. 4. The degree of steepness of a graph at any point, measured by the tangent of the angle between the horizontal axis and either the line (if straight) or the tangent to the curve; (see also quot. 1937). 1897: H. Lamb Elem. Course Infinitesimal Calculus ii. 67 “It is convenient to have a name for the property of a curve which is measured by the derived function. We shall use the term `gradient' in this sense.” 1937: E. J. McShane tr. Courant's Diff. & Integral Calculus (ed. 2) I. xi. 90 “The slope or gradient of the curve is given by tan a, and hence the term gradient is occasionally used for the derivative of the function represented by the curve.” 1942: C. E. K. Mees Theory Photogr. Process xix. 702 “The D, log E curve continues..into the region of decreasing exposure with constantly decreasing gradient.” 1958: A. Barton Introd. Coordinate Geom. v. 64 “A line whose gradient is zero is parallel to the x-axis; as the gradient increases the line gets steeper.” 5. Math. A vector function whose components along the co-ordinate axes are the partial derivatives with respect to the corresponding variables of a given scalar function; it is denoted by f (see del) or by grad f, where f is the scalar function. 1901: E. B. Wilson Vector Analysis iii. 138 “The vector sum which is the resultant rate of increase of V is denoted by V... The terms gradient and slope of V are..used for V.” 1936: E. J. McShane tr. Courant's Diff. & Integral Calculus II. iii. 89 “The direction of the gradient is the direction in which the function increases most rapidly.” 1966: McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. II. 413/1 “There are three differentiation processes that are of conceptual value in the study of vectors: the gradient of a scalar, the divergence of a vector, and the curl of a vector.” gradient, a. and n. 6. attrib. and Comb., as gradient wind Meteorol., the (hypothetical) wind whose direction is that of the geostrophic wind but whose speed is calculated by allowing for the effect on the geostrophic wind of the centrifugal force that results from its curved path. 1908: E. Gold Barometric Gradient & Wind Force 24 “We can construct a scale..which shall give..the Beaufort number corresponding to the theoretical gradient wind for straight isobars for any pressure distribution.” 1966: McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. VI. 244/2 “The gradient wind is a good approximation to the actual wind and is often superior to the geostrophic wind, particularly when the flow is strongly curved in the cyclonic sense.”
Complexité et multiplicité
Image recombination inspired by surrealist collage and those absurd soirée mondaine where everyone dumps their old family photos on the floor from a balcony like some inebriated spectacle ubuesque Jackson Pollock … fairly straightforward segmentation of ISO 216 formats into quadrilaterals (square, oblong, rhombus, rhomboid, and trapezia) and triangles. Those of least complexity might resemble a proof sheet. Plus les domaines sont disparates, plus l’image gagne en force et en intégrité. L’usage surréaliste de la métaphore ne relevait pas seulement d’une "fresh cut", mais d’une coupure neuve traversant toute une série de contradictions, un geste d’impossibilité. Comme dans la mécanique interne de la métaphore, scindée entre le "tenor" et le "vehicle", tout dialogue entre deux ou plusieurs entités exige une rupture ou une fissure. Dans le surréalisme et ce qui le suit, il en va de même pour le médium que pour l’idée ou l’image. La notion de "fresh cut" peut au premier abord sembler anachronique, voire déplacée, lorsqu’on examine l’ancienneté de l’imagerie des gouffres désertiques. Cette perception, immédiatement révélée à l’esprit, s’accorde aisément avec le reste du système. Puisque l’esprit n’est pas une faculté, mais un acte ou des actes — non pas un pouvoir de perception, mais la perception elle-même, dans sa haute union avec l’objet suprême (pour reprendre le langage métaphysique que Coleridge a rendu populaire et partiellement intelligible) — l’objet et le sujet ne font plus qu’un. Si l’on poursuit la connaissance comme on le devrait, et que tous les objets de connaissance soient envisagés dans leurs rapports à l’Être Absolu Unique, alors la connaissance d’objets particuliers extérieurs, de la nature, de la vie ou de l’histoire devient, en réalité, une connaissance de Dieu; et plus cette connaissance est complète ou adéquate, plus l’esprit s’élève au-dessus de ce qui est périssable dans les phénomènes, pour atteindre l’idée ou la loi qui les transcende.
dream, n. 2 1. a. A train of thoughts, images, or fancies passing through the mind during sleep; a vision during sleep; the state in which this occurs. waking dream, a similar involuntary vision occurring to one awake. 1250: Gen. & Ex. 1179 “On dreme him cam tiding. 1581 J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 8b, Those be yours Osorius your owne drousie dreames. 1607 Shakes. Timon iv. ii. 34 To liue But in a Dreame of Friendship. 1667 Milton P.L. viii. 292 When suddenly stood at my Head a dream. 1697 W. Dampier Voy. I. vi. 159 These may seem to the Reader but Golden Dreams. 1798 Ferriar Illustr. Sterne ii. 24 The dreams of Rabelais's commentators have indeed discovered a very different intention. 1832-4 De Quincey Cæsars Wks. 1862 IX. 137 note, The Emperor Hadrian had taken one solitary step..in the elevation of human nature; and not..without some subconscious influence received directly or indirectly from Christianity. 1841 Pope Wks. 1858 IX. 42 How much grander and more faithful to that great theme [Christianity] were the subconscious perceptions of his heart than the explicit commentaries of his understanding. 1847 Emerson Repr. Men, Uses Gt. Men Wks. (Bohn) I. 274 The search after the great is the dream of youth. 1886 Encycl. Brit. XX. 48|1 Subconscious presentations may tell on conscious life..although lacking either the differences of intensity or the individual distinctness requisite to make them definite features. 1886 Myers Phantasms of Living II. 285 There exist sub-conscious and unconscious operations of many kinds; both organic, as secretion, circulation, &c.,..and also mental, as the recall of names, the development of ideas, &c. 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 151 To cultivate the highest powers of the body and mind is to strengthen self-control and that subconscious inhibition which govern us in our habits of life. 1936 D. Gascoyne tr. Breton's What is Surrealism? vi. 66 As I said in the Manifesto `I believe in the future transmutation of those two seemingly contradictory states, dream and reality, into a sort of absolute reality, of surreality, so to speak.' 1937 Burlington Mag. Jan. p. xiv|1 Some `surreal' influence haunts the regions of the Black Forest.