Colour in computer graphics

✍ Scribed by Lindsay MacDonald

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 14 KB
• Volume: 23
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0361-2317
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6378(199806)23:3<196::aid-col18>3.0.co;2-c

✦ Synopsis

paragraph of approximately 200 words average length for

Colour in Computer Graphics

each image, with extensive cross-references throughout. An important new resource is now available for anyone At the end of each section is a bibliography of recent interested in learning or teaching the principles of color books relevant to the subject. in computer graphics and digital imaging. It consists of

The digital images on the PhotoCD are coded in the 108 high-quality 35 mm color transparencies, together standard Kodak ''Base 16'' hierarchy, with highest resowith a 52-page set of lecture notes totaling nearly 25,000 lution of 3072 1 2048 pixels, and they may be used in words. The same images are also published on a profesvarious ways for multimedia presentations. With ausionally mastered PhotoCD disc.

thoring software tools such as PowerPoint or Director, The set has nine modules of twelve images each, as for example, the images can be read in any desired sequence from the CD and interspersed with text, diagrams, follows:

lists of bullet points, etc. The 384 1 256 resolution images occupy 256 Kbytes each and are suitable for inclusion in 1. Human Color Vision VGA video presentations. The 768 1 512 images occupy 2. Color Modeling and Specification 864 Kbytes each and, although they take longer to load, 3. Using Color Effectively in Displays give higher quality for SVGA video presentations. 4. Light and Reflective Media The author, Lindsay MacDonald, is Professor of Multi-5. Color in Art and Design media Imaging at the Colour & Imaging Institute at the 6. Psychology and Perception University of Derby in England, U. K. All the material 7. Displays and Color Coding was subjected to expert academic review to guarantee 8.