Colour is a sensation and as such it is a subjective and incommunicable quantity. Colour measurement is possible because we can create a correspondence between colour sensations and the light radiations that stimulate them. This correspondence concerns the physics of light radiation, the physiology of the visual process and the psychology of vision. Historically, in parallel to standard colorimetry, systems for colour ordering have been developed that allow colour specifications in a very practical and concrete way, based on the direct vision of material colour samples arranged in colour atlases. Colour-ordering systems are sources of knowledge of colour vision, which integrate standard colorimetry. Read more...
Abstract: Colour is a sensation and as such it is a subjective and incommunicable quantity. Colour measurement is possible because we can create a correspondence between colour sensations and the light radiations that stimulate them. This correspondence concerns the physics of light radiation, the physiology of the visual process and the psychology of vision. Historically, in parallel to standard colorimetry, systems for colour ordering have been developed that allow colour specifications in a very practical and concrete way, based on the direct vision of material colour samples arranged in colour atlases. Colour-ordering systems are sources of knowledge of colour vision, which integrate standard colorimetry
Content: Series
Title page
Copyright
Dedication
Society of Dyers and Colourists
Preface
1 Generalities on Colour and Colorimetry
1.1 Colour
1.2 Colorimetry
References
Bibliography
2 Optics for Colour Stimulus
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Electromagnetic Waves
2.3 Photons
2.4 Radiometric and Actinometric Quantities
2.5 Inverse Square Law
2.6 Photometric Quantities
2.7 Retinal Illumination
References
Bibliography
3 Colour and Light-Matter Interaction
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Light Sources
3.3 Planckian Radiator
3.4 Light Regular Reflection and Refraction
3.5 Light Scattering 3.6 Light Absorption and Colour Synthesis3.7 Fluorescence
3.8 Transparent Media
3.9 Turbid Media
3.10 Ulbricht's Integration Sphere
References
Bibliography
4 Perceptual Phenomenology of Light and Colour
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Perceived Colours, Categorization and Language
4.3 Light Dispersion and Light Mixing
4.4 Unique Hues, Colour Opponencies and Degree of Resemblance
4.5 Colour Similitude
4.6 Unrelated and Related Colours
4.7 Colour Interactions
References
5 Visual System
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Eye Anatomy and Optical Image Formation
5.3 Eye and Pre-retina Physics 5.4 Anatomy of the Retina5.5 From the Retina to the Brain
5.6 Visual System and Colorimetry
Bibliography
References
6 Colour-Vision Psychophysics
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Adaptation
6.3 Absolute Thresholds in Human Vision
6.4 Absolute Threshold and Spectral Sensitivity in Scotopic and Photopic Visions
6.5 Luminous Efficiency Function
6.6 Light Adaptation and Sensitivity
6.7 Weber's and Fechner's Laws
6.8 Stevens' Law
6.9 Fechner's and Stevens' Psychophysics
6.10 Wavelength Discrimination
6.11 Saturation Discrimination and Least Colorimetric Purity 6.12 Rushton's Univariance Principle and Scotopic Vision6.13 Tristimulus Space
6.14 Lightness Scales
6.15 Helmholtz-Kohlrausch Effect
6.16 Colour Opponencies and Chromatic Valence
6.17 MacAdam's Chromatic Discrimination Ellipses
6.18 Perceived Colour Difference
6.19 Abney's and Bezold-Brücke's Phenomena
6.20 Chromatic Adaptation and Colour Constancy
6.21 Colour-Vision Psychophysics and Colorimetry
References
7 CIE Standard Photometry
7.1 Introduction
7.2 History of the Basic Photometric Unit
7.3 CIE 1924 Spectral Luminous Efficiency Function 7.4 CIE 1924 and CIE 1988 Standard Photometric Photopic Observers7.5 Photometric and Radiometric Quantities
7.6 CIE 1951 Standard Scotopic Photometric Observer
7.7 CIE 2005 Photopic Photometric Observer with 10° Visual Field
7.8 CIE Fundamental Photopic Photometric Observer with 2°/10° Visual Field
References
8 Light Sources and Illuminants for Colorimetry
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Equal-Energy Illuminant
8.3 Blackbody Illuminant
8.4 CIE Daylights
8.5 CIE Indoor Daylights
8.6 CIE Standard Illuminants
8.7 CIE Light Sources: A, B and C
8.8 CIE Sources for Colorimetry
