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| A. General Color Information | B. Color Science/Theory | C. Color and Computers |
| Appearance |
R.W.G. Hunt, "The Specification of Colour Appearance: I. Concepts
and Terms," Color Research and Application, Vol 2, No 2, Summer 1977, pp. 55-68 R.W.G. Hunt, "The Specification of Colour Appearance:
II. Effects of Changes in Viewing Conditions," |
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| Artists and Pigments |
Dated history of artists and pigments, dated color theories, techniques of
the past, past color theories. www.realcolorwheel.com/1artists.htm
Color Wheels Real Color Wheel |
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| Astronomy |
Color In Astronomical Photos: A Semi-Philosophical Discussion www.astropix.com/HTML/I_ASTROP/COLOR.HTM What Color are the Stars? (some pixel RGB values) |
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| Bibliography |
Color Matters Bibliography See bibliography section on Color Science page or Color and Computers page |
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| Causes | Causes of Color http://webexhibits.org/causesofcolor/index.html Causes of Color in Minerals Causes of Color in Minerals and Gemstones Kurt Nassau, The Physics and Chemistry of Color: The Fifteen Causes of Color, John Wiley, 1983. |
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| Chroma Keying | Blue Screens (Chroma Blue):
The Blue Screen Page |
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| Color Blindness | How to make figures and presentations that are friendly to color blind
people The Color Vision Store Color Blindness: More Prevalent Among Males
[Fortner97, pp. 57-60, pp. 111-112 "lines of confusion"] Color Defects and Genetics, [Byrne97B,
Section V] Are you color blind? (six Ishihara test
diagrams) A trichromat is a person with normal vision with three normal color receptors. Color-blind individuals may be classified as dichromats, monochromats or anomalous trichromats. Protanopia (red blindness, L cones are absent), deuteranopia (green blindness, M cones are absent), tritanopia (yellow-blue blindness). "Color Blindness," Chapter 8, [Byrne97B] or Section 8.6 "Visual chromatic defects" in [Malacara2002]. Relative abundance of visual chromatic defects from [Malacara2002, Table 8.3, p. 139]
What Color -- An Assistant to Color Blinds Color Vision -- Color Deficiency Vischeck can show you what
your image looks like to people who are color blind, people with glaucoma or macular
degeneration, elders and children. Ishihara Test for Color Blindness Eric Rudd's UseNet Post about simulating color blindness Françoise Viénot, et al, "Digital Video Colourmaps for Checking
the Legibility of Displays by Dichromats," |
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| Color Names |
Unconstrained Color Naming Experiment by Nathan Moroney at HP Danny Rich's UseNet Post about the links here. Comments about the above page in UseNet post (29 Nov 1999) by Mathew Brennesholtz
(Philips): Color: Universal Language and Dictionary of Names by Kenneth L. Kelly and Deanne B. Judd. National Bureau of Standards, Spec. Publ. 440, Dec. 1976, 189 pages. The NBS/ISCC Color System -- The 267 Color Centroids Standard Colors Color names and hex (or decimal) values: Draas'
Rainbow
Color
Chart UNIX X11 rgb.txt file with RGB values and color names often found in directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11
Color Name Samples Color Concepts and Names, [Byrne97B, Section II] Crayola Crayons Color Names The 216-Color Webmaster's Palette (interactive javascript) |
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| Colors |
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| Companies |
GretagMacbeth Find a PANTONE color Solux: supplier of specialized daylight
sources wherever color is an issue and natural
lighting is required X-rite's Ask a Color Expert |
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| Contrast |
Simultaneous Contrast |
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| Dyes | Database of manufacturers producing
Acid, Basic, Direct, Disperse, Mordant, Reactive, Vat Dyes and Pigments for application to
Textiles, Leather, Plastics, Paper, and more
Colorants: Dyes, [Nassau98, Chapter 11] |
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| Education | Color Education Page www.solux.net/edu1.htm |
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| Fall Colors |
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| FAQs | Frequently Asked Questions
Charles Poynton's Gamma FAQ and Color FAQ, www.poynton.com |
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| Food Color |
Luis Almela and Jose A. Fernández-López, "Measuring the Color of
Table Grapes," |
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| Four-Color Theorem | Graph theory problem. See Mathematics page. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gloss |
Edul N. Dalal and Kristen M. Natale, "The Effect of Gloss on Color," Color Research and Application, Vol 24, No 5, Oct 1999, pp. 369-376 |
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| Harmony |
Color Harmonies www.easyrgb.com/harmonies.php Color Harmony
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| History |
History of Colored Ores www.realcolorwheel.com/1color.htm#Tribes%20mined Dated history of artists and pigments, dated color theories, techniques
of the past, past color theories |
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| Information |
Envisioning Information Chapter 5, Color and Information, pp. 81-95 Why Should Engineers and Scientists Be Worried About Color? discusses problems with "rainbow" colormap; nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio data; hue is not a good dimension for encoding magnitude information; luminance and saturation colormaps are better for representing continuous variations in data magnitude. www.research.ibm.com/people/l/lloydt/color/color.HTM |
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| Inks |
Reproducing Color Images Using Custom Inks |
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| Journals |
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| Leaf Color | See Fall Colors above | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minerals | Spectroscopy of Rocks and Minerals, and Principles of Spectroscopy http://speclab.cr.usgs.gov/PAPERS.refl-mrs/refl4.html Color in Minerals
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| Miscellaneous | Color in Plants, Animals and Man, [Nassau98,
Chapter 8] The optics of feather color Color Preservation, [Nassau98, Chapter 12] |
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| Newsgroup | sci.engr.color
Story and charter of sci.engr.color newsgroup |
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| Philosophy | [Byrne97A]
A Bibliography of Color and Philosophy Paul Skokowski's color philosophy page |
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| Pigments | Colorants: Organic and Inorganic pigments, [Nassau98,
Chapter 10]
Pigments through the Ages: Pigments in Paintings |
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| Psychology, Physiology, Perception |
Why Should Engineers and Scientists Be Worried About Color? Daylight: Is it in the eye of the beholder? Physiology and Psychophysics, [Byrne97B, Section III] |
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| Rainbows | See Color Science page | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Research Groups, Organizations, Societies |  RIT Munsell Color
Science Laboratorywww.cis.rit.edu/mcsl Inter-Society
Color Council Centre français de la Couleur (CFC) Department of Colour Chemistry, University of Leeds Colour Design Research Center International Color Consortium, www.color.org Optical Society of America, www.osa.org Colour and Imaging Technology,
Institut für Technische Elektronik |
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| Skin Color | What Controls Variation in Human Skin
Color? Vol
1, No. 1, PLoS Biology
In the well-known book "Color Science," by Gunter Wyszecki and W.S. Stiles (2nd ed, Wiley, 1982) there are some spectral reflectance curves of human skin for a number of races. "Skin Deep", Scientific American, October 2002, pp. 74-81. Gretag-Macbeth Color Checker spectral
reflectance data (DarkSkin, LightSkin, other colors) Automatic Quantitative Analysis of Healing Skin Wounds using Colour
Digital Image Processing A Colour Histogram Clustering Technique for Tissue Analysis of
Healing Skin Wounds, Finding Naked People Naked People Skin Filter |
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| Sun Color |
What color is the Sun? All visible colors of the Sun, produced by passing the Sun's light
through a prism-like device, What color is the Sun? - chromaticity above the atmosphere ASTM E 891 - Direct Solar Spectral Irradiance at Air Mass 2.0 See Color Temperature on Color Science page |
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| Terminology | R.W.G. Hunt, "Colour Terminology," Color Research and Application, Vol 3, No 2, Summer 1978, pp. 79-87. Discusses set of psychometric terms and formulae, and their relationships to psychophysical and perceptual terms. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vision
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Peter K. Kaiser and Robert M. Boynton, Human
Color Vision, Optical Society of America, 1996.
How Do We See Colors? Red, Green, and Blue Cones Molecular Biology of Human Vision Research by Jeremy Nathans The Human Eye
Also see Computer
Vision on efg's
Image Processing Reference Library page
The Joy of Visual Perception -- Web Book Color Vision, [Nassau98, Chapter 3] Vision Science Tutorials, FAQs, and Other Resources Vision Science Bibliographies & Databases Vision Science Demonstrations Dictionary for the Study of Vision Section 2.1, Elements of Visual Perception Useful Numbers in Vision Science Optical Illusions: Human Vision Versus Machine Vision
MIT Professor Adelson's Illusions
and Demos page |
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| Updated | 5 Nov 2011 |
| Since | 1 Nov 1998 |
