Color Physics and Principle of Appearance
- Description of color, color perception, things required to see color. Introduction of light, light sources
- standard light sources, spectral power distribution, black body, color temperature, color rendering index
- Light interaction with objects, description of specular reflection, gloss, scattering, absorption, transmission
- The Desert Island Experiment, description of Hue, Chroma, Lightness. Spectral reflectance curves
- Introducing spectrophotometers, type of spectrophotometers, measuring situations
- Color mixing, introduction to subtractive and additive color mixing, Grassman's Laws
- Visual system, color vision, color blindness, CIE standard observer, color matching functions
- Calculation of tristimulus values, CIEXYZ color systems and its discrepancies
- Color spaces, Munsell color-order system, CIELUV, CIELAB. Colorimeter
- Color difference evaluation, visual color difference, one-dimensional color scales, whiteness, yellowness
- Introduction of metamerism, adaptation, color constancy
- Colorimetry of fluorescent materials, pearlescent pigments and metallic particles
- Introducing of color matching; spectrophotometric and colorimetric
- Kubelka-Munk theory, introducing of single-constant and two-constant theories
- Basic calculations of spectrophotometric color matching
- An overview of some new phenomena in color physics