Color Physics and Principle of Appearance
- Concept of color, Color perception and the effective parameters, Light and light sources
- Standard light sources, Spectral energy distributions, Color temperature, Color rendering index
- Optical behaviors of objects, Concepts of surface reflectance, diffusion, absorption, transmission and geometrical phenomena like glossiness
- Desert island experiment, introducing of hue, chroma and lightness
- Introducing with color measurement devices: spectrophotometers and colorimeters
- Color mixtures: Additive color mixing, subtractive color mixing and partitive color mixing (Grassmann, Beer-Lambert, Kubelka-Munk and Murray-Davis laws)
- Introduction to visual system, Human color visual system models, Color blind, Color matching functions
- Computation of color tristimulus values, CIE XYZ color order system and its drawbacks
- Uniform color orders, Munsell color system, CIE LAB and CIE LUV color order systems, Employing of colorimeters
- Color difference equations, Just noticeable difference, Color tolerance, One-dimensional systems (White index and Yellow index)
- Metamerism, Chromatic adaptation and Color constancy
- Special appearance (fluorescent, pearlescent and metallic effects)
- An introduction to color matching (spectral and colorimetric matches)
- Application of Kubelka-Munk equation (one and two constants theories)
- Color modelling (direct and inverse approaches)