Color
Color
Color
Reading
w Hearn & Baker, Chapter 15.
Further reading:
w Brian Wandell. Foundations of Vision. Chapter 4.
Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA, 1995.
w Gerald S. Wasserman. Color Vision: An Historical
Introduction. John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1978
Outline
•Measuring color
Wavelength (meters)
Light as Particles
A dim tungsten bulb and an RGB monitor set up to emit a metameric spectrum
(Wandell 4.11)
Colored Surfaces
So far, we’ve discussed the colors of lights. How do surfaces acquire color?
The solid curve appears green indoors and out. The dashed curve looks
green outdoors, but brown under incandescent light.
Illustration of Color Appearance
The CIE XYZ System
A standard created in 1931 by CIE, defined in terms of three color matching
functions.
CIE Coordinates
Given an emission spectrum, we can use the CIE matching functions to
obtain the X, Y and Z coordinates.
X = ∫ x (λ )t (λ )d λ
Y = ∫ y ( λ )t (λ ) d λ
Z = ∫ z (λ )t (λ ) d λ
X
x=
X +Y + Z
Y
y=
X +Y + Z
Z
z=
X +Y + Z
The CIE Color Blob
The CIE Chromaticity Diagram
Perhaps the most familiar color space, and the most convenient for display on
a CRT.
More natural for user interaction, corresponds to the artistic concepts of tint,
shade and tone.
CMYK adds blacK ink rather than using equal amounts of all three.
RGB vs. CMY
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