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Color Measurement

Theme and Variations

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  • © 1981

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Authors:
  1. David L. MacAdam

    1. Rochester, USA

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Part of the book series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences (SSOS, volume 27)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  2. The Physical Basis of Color Specification

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    Pages 1-25

  3. Sources of Light

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    Pages 26-35

  4. Spectrophotometry

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    Pages 36-45

  5. Color Mixture

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    Pages 46-55

  6. Determination of Tristimulus Values

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    Pages 56-93

  7. Color of Light

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    Pages 94-105

  8. Colors of Objects

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    Pages 106-128

  9. Color Differences

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    Pages 129-161

  10. Color-Order Systems

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    Pages 162-177

  11. Color-Matching Functions

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    Pages 178-199

  12. Chromatic Adaptation

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    Pages 200-208

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 209-232
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Color is attractive and interesting to everyone. Consequently, control of color is important to all producers, buyers, sellers, and users of colored materials. In various ways, color is an indication of freshness, quality, or other desirable (or undesirable) characteristics of goods. To assure acceptability, saleability, and favorable price - especially in contracts and monitoring of conformance to specifications - numerical expression of color is greatly superior to verbal descriptions. Disagreements concerning words or visual comparisons with samples are all too likely and frequent. Such disagreements underlie much un­ pleasantness and loss in commerce in consumer goods. Such loss of money and good will must amount to billions of dollars per year, world wide. Persistent efforts to substitute measurements of color for visual judgment have marked the twentieth century. Because visual perception of small color differences is so acute, the requirements for accuracy and world-wide repro­ ducibility of color measurements have been severe. Only during the last half century have practical spectrophotometers with adequate accuracy been avail­ able.

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  • Rochester, USA

    David L. MacAdam

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