Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sources of color-What is color and how did we come to experience it?-From light to color-Color perception phenomena-Orderly arrangements of color-Defining the color stimulus-Calculating color-Colorants and their mixture-Color reproduction-The web of color-Color (theory) in art-Harmony of colors.

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Our visual perception of color is the result of a complex interaction of light, chemicals, and the visual aparatus of our eyes and brain. In this book, the scientific principles and concepts of color: the nature of light, color perception, and the measurement of color are compiled into a single reference source. This book contains thorough explanations of key technical concepts concerning light, human vision, and color perception phenomena, examines color reproduction technologies and techniques, and offers a historical review of the development of color theory and art.

Copyright page -- 1. : Sources of Color -- Light -- Incandescence -- Blackbody Radiation -- Luminescence -- Absorption, Reflection, Scattering, and Transmission -- Refraction -- Interference -- Diffraction -- Molecular Orbitals -- Crystal-Field Colors -- Electrical Conductors and Semiconductors -- 2. : What Is Color and How Did We Come to Experience It -- The Opponent Color System -- Genetics, Epigenetics, and the Connectome -- What is Color -- 3. : From Light to Color -- Rods and Cones -- Color Opponency -- 4. : Color Perception Phenomena -- Light as Illuminator

Unrelated and Related ColorsLightness and Related Effects -- Helmholtz-Kohlrausch Effect -- Lightness Crispening Effect -- Hue -- Bezold-Br�ucke and Abney Effects -- Chroma -- Grayness -- Additive and Subtractive Stimulus Mixture: Complementary Colors -- Adaptation -- Color Constancy -- Metamerism -- Simultaneous and Successive Contrast: Afterimages -- Spreading and Edge Effects: Mach Bands -- Volume Colors. , Transparency, and Translucency -- Metallic Colors -- 5. : Orderly Arrangements of Color -- Ordering of Color Percepts -- Levels of Color Order -- Kinds of Color Order

Uniform Difference Unit Contours in Euclidean Color SpaceImpact of Crispening Effect on Color Difference Perception -- Observer Variability -- Color Space and Color Solid -- Kinds of Color Solids -- Color Solid Sampling with Equal or Varied Intervals of Stimulus -- Swedish Natural Colour System (NCS) -- Munsell Color System -- Optical Society of America Uniform Color Scales (OSA-UCS) -- Other Color-Order Systems -- Color Stimulus Solids -- Color Naming -- 6. : Defining the Color Stimulus -- Matching Stimuli -- The CIE Colorimetric System -- The CIE Chromaticity Diagram -- Optimal Object Color (Stimulus) Solid

7. : Calculating Color -- Modeling Global Color Space -- Small Color Differences -- 8. : Colorants and Their Mixture -- Dyes -- Pigments -- Colorimetric Properties of Colorants -- Colorant Mixtures -- Special Colorants -- Fluorescent Colorants -- Metallic, Pearlescent, and Interference Flakes -- 9. : Color Reproduction -- Basic Processes in Color Reproduction -- Color Television and Other Displays -- Graphic Printing -- Dyeing and Printing of Textiles and Paper, Coloring with Pigments and Paints, and other Coloration Techniques -- Color Management -- Colorant Formulation and Color Control

10. : The Web of Color -- Greek Ideas on Color -- Medieval and Renaissance Thought on Color -- The Revolution of the Prism -- Physics and Psychology -- Color Order in the Twentieth Century -- Color Technology and Color Science -- Color in Language -- 11. : Color (Theory) in Art -- The Renaissance -- From the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Centuries -- Twentieth Century -- Optical and Psychological Effects in Painting -- 12. : Harmony of Colors -- Color in Fashion -- Color and Music -- Complementary Colors -- Complex Rules of Harmony -- Create Your Own Harmonies

Appendix: Timetable of Color in Science and Art.

Physical Science