Standard Colorimetry

<p>Colour is a sensation and as such it is a subjective and incommunicable quantity. Colour measurement is possible because we can create a correspondence between colour sensations and the light radiations that stimulate them. This correspondence concerns the physics of light radiation, the physiology of the visual process and the psychology of vision.</p> <p>Historically, in parallel to standard colorimetry, systems for colour ordering have been developed that allow colour specifications in a very practical and concrete way, based on the direct vision of material colour samples arranged in colour atlases. Colour-ordering systems are sources of knowledge of colour vision, which integrate standard colorimetry.</p> <p><i>Standard Colorimetry: Definitions, Algorithms and Software:</i></p> <ul> <li>Describes physiology and psychophysics useful to understand colorimetry</li> <li>Considers all the photometric and colorimetric systems standardized by CIE (<i>XYZ</i>, CIELAB, CIELUV, <i>LMS</i>)</li> <li>Presents colorimetric instrumentation in order to guide the reader toward colorimetric practice</li> <li>Discusses colorimetric computation to understand the meaning of numerical colour specification</li> <li>Considers colorimetry in colour syntheses and in imaging colour reproduction</li> <li>Includes ready-to-use, freely-available software, “Colorimetric eXercise”, which has multiple toolboxes dedicated to <ul> <li>displaying CIE systems, atlases, any colour and its whole numerical specification</li> <li>colour-vision phenomena and tests</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p><i>Standard Colorimetry: Definitions, Algorithms and Software</i> is an accessible and valuable resource for students, lecturers, researchers and laboratory technicians in colour science and image technology.<br /><br /></p> <p><b><b><b>Follow this link to download the free software “Colorimetric eXercise”: http://booksupport.wiley.com/<br /></b></b><br /><br /><i>Standard Colorimetry: Definitions, Algorithms and Software </i>is published in partnership with the Society of Dyers and Colourists (SDC). </b><b>Find out more at </b><a href=”http://www.wiley.com/go/sdc”><b>www.wiley.com/go/sdc<br /><br /></b></a></p>