Color An Introduction to Practice and

New components for the third edition include an expansion of Chapter 2, in particular the sections on Opponent Color System and What is Color. Modern content in Chapter 3 and Chapter 6 brings sections like the CIE colorimetric system and optimal object colors up-to-date. Chapter 8 now incorporates mixing light and colorants and Chapter 9 covers color reproduction, display systems, color photography and color management. This book provides a solid foundation to the fundamentals of color science. It contains thorough explanations of key technical concepts concerning light, human vision, and color perception phenomena, provides broad coverage of color order systems, examines color reproduction technologies and techniques, and offers a historical review of the development of color theory and art.

ROLF G. KUEHNI is an Adjunct Professor at North Carolina State University. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including Color Space and Its Divisions: Color Order from Antiquity to the Present (Wiley). The recipient of several prestigious awards, Kuehni also served as editor for the journal Color Research and Application.

Preface ix

1. Sources of Color 1

2. What Is Color and How Did We Come to Experience It? 23

3. From Light to Color 37

4. Color Perception Phenomena 51

5. Orderly Arrangements of Color 79

6. Defining the Color Stimulus 113

7. Calculating Color 131

8. Colorants and Their Mixture 151

9. Color Reproduction 167

10. The Web of Color 187

11. Color (Theory) in Art 219

12. Harmony of Colors 243

Appendix: Timetable of Color in Science and Art 257

Glossary 261

Credits 273

Index 275

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Color An Introduction to Practice and Principles

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