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| Introduction |
Index.html |
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The fairy tale beauty of Color and the physical phenomena will be a part of this website. |
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Contents and Lay-out |
01. 01 |
Contents and Lay-out of this Website about Colors. |
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Color Glossary |
01. 02 |
A list of terms about color. (UNDER
CONSTRUCTION) |
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| Ingredients |
Light-Object-Observer |
02. 00 |
The three ingredients of appearance recognition. |
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| Spectra |
Electromagnetic |
03. 00 |
Electromagnetic radiation can be arranged in a spectrum, that extends from waves of low to very high frequencies. |
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Visible |
03. 01 |
The visible spectrum arranged in the order red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet. |
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Rainbow |
03. 02 |
A rainbow is a natural spectrum, produced by meteorological phenomena. |
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Prism |
03. 03 |
The first correct explanation of this phenomenon. |
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Sun |
03. 04 |
The solar spectrum and the solar lines. |
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Interference |
03. 05 |
Interference |
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| Attributes |
Hue |
04. 00 |
Hue's form a color wheel. |
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Lightness |
04. 01 |
Lightness changes vertically. |
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Saturation |
04. 02 |
Saturation varies horizontally. |
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The
Attributes as a Space |
04. 03 |
Hue and Lightness and Saturation. |
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| Human Eye |
Eye |
05. 00 |
The Sensitivity of the rods is about 10.000 times as the cones. |
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Sensitivity |
05. 01 |
Between 500 and 600 nanometers the human eye can differentiate about 7.5 million color shades. |
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Whiteness |
05. 02 |
Lets focus on Whiteness. |
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Blindness |
05. 03 |
Color-Blindness more correctly called color vision deficiency. |
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| Color Mixing |
Additive
Color Mixing |
06. 00 |
Additive colors are light based. |
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Subtractive |
06. 01 |
Most colors seen in ordinary experience, are caused by the partial absorption of white light. |
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Complementary |
06. 02 |
The relationship of complementary colors perceived as completing or enhancing each other. |
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Color
mixing in practice |
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Part 1 Color mixing with white, gray
and black. |
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| General Terms |
Color Broadly Speaking |
07. 00 |
Color broadly speaking. |
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Light Sources |
07. 01 |
Light is created by heating objects to incandescence or by atoms or molecules being subjected to excitation. |
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Color Temperature |
07. 02 |
Blackbody and Color Temperature. |
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Color
Symbolism |
07. 03 |
The Symbolic Meaning of Colors. |
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References |
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References Book and Work |
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| Color Spaces |
384 BC -1860 |
08. 00 |
Inventors/Physicists/Mathematicians/etc. and a simple 2D or 3D color space from 384 BC to 1860 |
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1860-1928 |
08. 01 |
Inventors/Physicists/Mathematicians/etc. and a simple 2D or 3D color space from
1860 to 1928 |
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1929-1955 |
08. 02 |
Inventors/Physicists/Mathematicians/etc. and a simple 2D or 3D color space from
1929 to 1955 |
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1955-1976 |
08. 03 |
Inventors/Physicists/Mathematicians/etc. and a simple 2D or 3D color space from
1955 to 1976 |
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| How to measure |
Spectrophotometer |
09. 00 |
Spectrophotometer |
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| | Color Instruments |
09. 01 |
ANCAL, INC, NEVADA, USA E-mail:
ancal@pobox.com
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| . | Color Instruments |
09. 02 |
MINOLTA CO., Ltd. PO BOX 1364, Maarssenbroek 3600 The Netherlands |
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| . | Color Instruments |
09. 03 |
X-Rite GmbH Stollwerchstraße 32 D-51149 Köln Germany E-mail: info@xrite.de |
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| Color Scales |
XYZ - Tristimulus |
10. 00 |
The CIE originally defined the standard observer using a 2° field of view, hence the name 2° Standard Observer. |
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Hunter versus CIE |
10. 01 |
Hunter scale versus CIE scale (still working on)
Website: www.hunterlab.com
E-mail: info@hunterlab.com |
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CIE-1931 |
10. 02 |
The CIE-1931Chromaticity Diagram |
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CIE-1976 |
10. 03 |
The CIE-1976 Chromaticity Diagram |
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| Color Effects |
Constancy |
11. 00 |
Different illuminants have different spectral energy distribution. |
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Metamerism |
11. 01 |
A layman can recognize metamerism when two colored objects that match
under one illuminant and fail to match under an other illuminant. |
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Successive Contrast |
11. 02 |
A number of colors following one another in order or sequence. |
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Simultaneous Contrast |
11. 03 |
Simultaneous as existing, occurring, or operating at the same time. |
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| After Images |
Chromatic Adaptation |
12. 00 |
After images (constant under construction) |
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