Book Description This book offers detailed coverage of color, colorants, the coloring of materials, and reproducing the color of materials through imaging. It combines the clarity and ease of earlier editions with significant updates about the advancement in color theory and technology. Provides guidance for how to use color measurement instrumentation, make a visual assessment, set a visual tolerance, and select a formulation Supplements material with numerical examples, graphs, and illustrations that clarify and explain complex subjects Expands coverage of topics including spatial vision, solid-state lighting, cameras and spectrophotometers, and translucent materials Show and hide more
Table of Contents
Cover Preface Chapter 1: Physical Properties of Colors A. WHAT THIS BOOK IS ABOUT? B. THE SPECTRUM AND WAVE THEORY C. LIGHT SOURCES D. CONVENTIONAL MATERIALS E. FLUORESCENT MATERIALS F. GONIOAPPARENT MATERIALS G. PHOTOCHROMIC AND THERMOCHROMIC COLORANTS H. SUMMARY Chapter 2: Color and Spatial Vision A. TRICHROMACY B. LIGHT AND CHROMATIC ADAPTATION C. COMPRESSION D. OPPONENCY E. SPATIAL VISION F. OBSERVER VARIABILITY G. SUMMARY Chapter 3: Visual Color Specification A. ONE‐DIMENSIONAL SCALES B. THREE‐DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS C. COLOR APPEARANCE: MULTIDIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS D. COLOR‐MIXING SYSTEMS E. SUMMARY Chapter 4: Numerical Color Specification: Colorimetry A. COLOR MATCHING B. DERIVATION OF THE STANDARD OBSERVERS C. CALCULATING TRISTIMULUS VALUES FOR MATERIALS D. CHROMATICITY COORDINATES AND THE CHROMATICITY DIAGRAM E. CALCULATING TRISTIMULUS VALUES AND CHROMATICITY COORDINATES FOR SOURCES F. TRANSFORMATION OF PRIMARIES G. APPROXIMATELY UNIFORMLY SPACED SYSTEMS H. COLOR‐APPEARANCE MODELS I. WHITENESS AND YELLOWNESS J. SUMMARY Chapter 5: Color‐Quality Specification A. PERCEPTIBILITY AND ACCEPTABILITY VISUAL JUDGMENTS B. COLOR‐DIFFERENCE GEOMETRY C. ELLIPSES AND ELLIPSOIDS D. THE COLOR‐DIFFERENCE PROBLEM E. WEIGHTED COLOR‐DIFFERENCE FORMULAS F. CMC(l:c) COLOR‐DIFFERENCE FORMULA G. CIEDE2000 COLOR‐DIFFERENCE FORMULA H. UNIFORM COLOR‐DIFFERENCE SPACES I. DETERMINING COLOR‐TOLERANCE MAGNITUDE J. SUMMARY Chapter 6: Color and Material‐Appearance Measurement A. BASIC PRINCIPLES OF MEASURING COLOR AND MATERIAL APPEARANCE B. THE SAMPLE C. VISUAL COLOR MEASUREMENT D. MEASUREMENT GEOMETRIES E. SPECTROPHOTOMETRY F. SPECTRORADIOMETRY G. FLUORESCENCE MEASUREMENTS H. PRECISION AND ACCURACY MEASUREMENTS I. SPECTRAL IMAGING J. MATERIAL‐APPEARANCE MEASUREMENTS K. SUMMARY Chapter 7: Lighting A. STANDARD ILLUMINANTS B. LUMINANCE, ILLUMINANCE, AND LUMINOUS EFFICACY C. CORRELATED COLOR TEMPERATURE D. COLOR RENDITION E. SUMMARY Chapter 8: Metamerism and Color Inconstancy A. METAMERISM TERMINOLOGY B. PRODUCING METAMERS C. INDICES OF METAMERISM D. COLOR INCONSTANCY AND INDICES OF COLOR INCONSTANCY E. SUMMARY Chapter 9: Optical Modeling of Colored Materials A. GENERIC APPROACH TO COLOR MODELING B. MODELING TRANSPARENT MATERIALS C. MODELING OPAQUE MATERIALS D. MODELING GONIOAPPARENT MATERIALS E. COLOR‐FORMULATION SOFTWARE F. SUMMARY Chapter 10: Color Imaging A. ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS B. COLOR MANAGEMENT C. ADDITIVE VERSUS SUBTRACTIVE MIXING D. DISPLAYS AND ENCODING E. PRINTING F. DIGITAL CAMERAS G. SPECTRAL COLOR REPRODUCTION H. SUMMARY Bibliography Annotated Bibliography Recommended Books Index End User License Agreement