Number by Colors: A Guide to Using Color to Understand Technical Data

✍ Scribed by Brand Fortner, Theodore E. Meyer (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 373
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Numbering with colors is tutorial in nature, with many practical examples given throughout the presentation. It is heavily illustrated with gray-scale images, but also included is an 8-page signature of 4-color illustrations to support the presentation. While the organization is somewhat similar to that found in "The Data Handbook," there is little overlap with the content material in that publication. The first section in the book discusses Color Physics, Physiology and Psychology, talking about the details of the eye, the visual pathway, and how the brain converts colors into perceptions of hues. This is followed by the second section, in which Color Technologies are explained, i.e. how we describe colors using the CIE diagram, and how colors can be reproduced using various technologies such as offset printing and video screens. The third section of the book, Using Colors, relates how scientists and engineers can use color to help gain insight into their data sets through true color, false color, and pseudocolor imaging.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
Spectral Analysis....Pages 3-18
Eye, Ear, and Brain....Pages 19-45
Light Spectra to RGB....Pages 47-62
Hue, Saturation, Intensity....Pages 63-84
Front Matter....Pages 85-86
Defining Colors—The CIE Color Diagram....Pages 87-117
Defining Colors—Color Models....Pages 119-146
Reproducing Colors—Fundamentals....Pages 147-173
Reproducing Colors—Technologies....Pages 175-218
Front Matter....Pages 219-220
Numbers In Computers....Pages 221-253
Color in Computers—Fundamentals....Pages 255-274
Color by Numbers—Using Color to Visualize Data....Pages 275-293
Back Matter....Pages 295-349

✦ Subjects

Computer Graphics