This book presents the most complete translation to date of Erwin Schrödinger’s work on colorimetry. In his work Schrödinger proposed a projective geometry of color space, rather than a Euclidean line-element. He also proposed new (at the time) colorimetric methods – in detail and at length - which represented a dramatic conceptual shift in colorimetry. Schrödinger shows how the trichromatic (or Young-Helmholtz) theory of color and the opponent-process (or Hering) theory of color are formally the same theory, or at least only trivially different. These translations of Schrödinger’s bold concepts for color space have a fresh resonance and importance for contemporary color theory.
Author(s): Erwin Schrödinger; Keith K. Niall (ed.)
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 197
Front Matter ....Pages i-x
Schrödinger’s Color Theory and Its Background (Keith K. Niall)....Pages 1-10
Outlines of a Theory of Photopic Colorimetry (Part I): Basic Colorimetry, or Affine Color Properties (First Article) (Keith K. Niall)....Pages 11-34
Outlines of a Theory of Photopic Colorimetry (Part II) Basic Colorimetry or Affine Color Properties, Continued (First Article) (Keith K. Niall)....Pages 35-59
Outlines of a Theory of Photopic Colorimetry (Part III): Advanced Colorimetry, or Full-Blooded Colorimetry (Second Article) (Keith K. Niall)....Pages 61-97
A Metric of Color (Keith K. Niall)....Pages 99-114
A Theory of Pigments of Maximum Luminous Efficiency (Keith K. Niall)....Pages 115-131
On the Origin of the Eye’s Sensitivity Curves (Keith K. Niall)....Pages 133-150
On the Subjective Color of Starlight and the Quality of Twilight Sensation (Keith K. Niall)....Pages 151-165
On the Relation of the Tetrachromatic Theory to the Trichromatic Theory (Keith K. Niall)....Pages 167-185
Back Matter ....Pages 187-193
