Color theory. Colorimetry

Description

The book is written on the basis of the authors’ practical experience in creating methods for measuring color, determining the characteristics of perception and expression of color when it is reproduced on various display devices.

The book is written in an accessible language with the necessary reference material and is intended for specialists studying color science, color management and colorimetry. At the same time, it is useful in the modern educational process for students of different profiles in one way or another related to radiation and its effect on environmental objects.

• Authors: O. M. Mikhailov, K.A. Tomskiy.
• Number of pages: 176 pages
• Year of publishing: 2011

Table of contents
CHAPTER I. Fundamentals of the doctrine of color ………… 5
Light and color. Properties of the eye as an optical system …………5
Basic principles of photometry …………17
Nature and psychology of color. Subjective
color characteristics…………20
Colorimetry and metrology ………… 24
Three-dimensionality of color. Newton’s circle and Maxwell ‘s triangles …………28
Color of radiation and color of object…………31
Optical color mixing…………36
Korrigirovanie relative spectral sensitivity of the receiver for the physical measurement of light and color …………38
The laws of additive color mixing ………… 49
Color specification. Color atlases …………51
Color space …………53
Chapter II. Colorimetric systems…………62
2.1. Colorimetric system R, G, B…………62
2.1.1. Basics of construction …………62
2.1.2. Objective color recognition …………68
2.1.3. Physical foundations of the RGB system …………72
2.1.4. The addition functions of the RGB colorimetric system …………74
2.1.5. Calculation of the color of radiation of a complex spectral composition in the RGB system …………77
2.2. Standard colorimetric system CIE 1931 (XYZ) …………79
2.2.1. Physical foundations of the XYZ system …………79
2.2.2. Addition function (specific coordinates) ………… 85
2.2.3. Calculation of the emission color of complex spectral composition …………89
2.3. Physiological system of KZF ………… 91
2.3.1. Features of the KZF colorimetric system …………91
2.3.2 Construction of the KZF colorimetric system …………96
2.3.3. Addition function (specific coordinates) and chromaticity graph …………98
2.4. Polar coordinate system …………103
2.4.1. Color tone and color purity …………103
2.4.2. The error in determining the color tone …………104
2.5. Principles of measurement and calibration of colorimeters …………105
CHAPTER III. Color perception and equal-contrast color spaces …………115
3.1. Perception of color differences…………115
3.2. Psychophysics of color perception …………117
3.3. Influence of surface gloss perception chromaticity …………121
3.4. Primary and primary colors, phenomena of displacement, Hering’s theory …………124
3.5. The physical essence of light and color…………131
3.6. Color sensations and threshold color contrasts…………134
3.7. Equal contrast color space L * u * v * …………138
3.8. Equal contrast color space L * a * b * …………143
CHAPTER IV. Color reproduction …………149
4.1. Color rendering and adaptation to color …………149
4.2. Problems of radiation of white color and whiteness of the surface…………156
4.3. Reproduction of color when printing …………160
4.4. Introduction to Color Management …………164