How much physics does colorimetry really need?

✍ Scribed by Heinwig Lang

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 40 KB
• Volume: 22
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0361-2317
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6378(199706)22:3<212::aid-col11>3.0.co;2-g

✦ Synopsis

This contribution tries to expel the Dunwich Horprovide an academic opportunity for students to specialize ror of ''undimensioned'' tristimulus values from colorimeas colour designers. The objective is to give students an try. I intend to show that tristimulus values have units, and artistic, theoretical, and practical knowledge of colour and that we may attribute a common dimension to these units. light applicable to fine art and design. The program is Colorimetric units are independent of physical units. They comprehensive in its reflection of an international colour are sets of primaries, determined by directions and relative perspective, while being grounded in the colour traditions lengths in color space, but without definition of an absolute of Finland, Scandinavia, and Europe.

length, because in colorimetry quantities generally refer to The program is intended for students with prior profes-''reference stimuli.'' Color-matching functions can be desional training, a B. A. or equivalent first degree in art, fined as tristimulus values of monochromatic stimuli. To design, or architecture, and provides a specialization in define them as Mr. Brill does in his Definition 1 is possible colour that will extend their professional opportunities.

and consistent, but it does not correspond to the use of these Although the degree aims at a highly focused professional functions in colorimetric practice. And it leads to inconsisidentity, its curriculum is broad in academic preparation.

tencies if color-matching functions are interpreted as having The studies include colour interaction, colour classificathe units watt/watt.