Billmeyer and Saltzman's principles of color technology

Abstract

This book offers detailed coverage of color, colorants, the coloring of materials, and reproducing the color of materials through imaging. It combines the clarity and ease of earlier editions with significant updates about the advancement in color theory and technology. Provides guidance for how to use color measurement instrumentation, make a visual assessment, set a visual tolerance, and select a formulation. Supplements material with numerical examples, graphs, and illustrations that clarify and explain complex subjects. Expands coverage of topics including spatial vision, solid-state lighting, cameras and spectrophotometers, and translucent materials.

Contents

Chapter 1 Physical Properties of Colors -- Chapter 2 Color and Spatial Vision -- Chapter 3 Visual Color Specification -- Chapter 4 Numerical Color Specification: Colorimetry -- Chapter 5 Color-Quality Specification -- Chapter 6 Color and Material-Appearance Measurement -- Chapter 7 Lighting -- Chapter 8 Metamerism and Color Inconstancy -- Chapter 9 Optical Modeling of Colored Materials -- Chapter 10 Color Imaging.