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| Preface to the Third Edition | |
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| Preface to Second Edition | |
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| Defining Color | |
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| What This Book Is About | |
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| The Physical Stimulus | |
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| Sources of Light | |
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| How Materials Modify Light | |
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| Transmission | |
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| Absorption | |
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| Scattering | |
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| Fluroescence | |
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| Spectral Characteristics of Materials | |
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| Goniophotometric and Goniochromatic Aspects | |
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| Perceiving Color | |
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| Describing Color | |
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| Organizing Colors--The Desert Island Experiment | |
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| Color Coordinates | |
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| Factors Affecting Color Descriptions--The Art Classroom Experiment | |
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| Color Appearance | |
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| Metamerism | |
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| Summary | |
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| Describing Color | |
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| Systems Based on Color Mixing | |
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| Systems Based on Color Perception | |
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| The Munsell Color System | |
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| The Natural Color System | |
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| The OSA Uniform Color Scales System | |
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| The Colorcurve System | |
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| Other Systems | |
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| Systems Based on Color Matching: The CIE System | |
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| Derivation of the Standard Observers | |
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| Theoretical Considerations | |
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| The Color-Matching Experiment | |
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| The 1924 CIE Standard Photopic Observer | |
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| The 1931 CIE Standard Observer | |
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| The 1964 CIE Standard Observer | |
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| The CIE Standard Deviate Observer | |
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| Calculating Tristimulus Values for Materials | |
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| Chromaticity Coordinates and the Chromaticity Diagram | |
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| Calculating Tristimulus Values and Chromaticity Coordinates for Sources | |
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| More Nearly Uniformly Spaced Systems | |
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| Uniform-Chromaticity Scale Diagrams | |
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| Lightness Scales | |
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| Opponent-Type Systems | |
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| One-Dimensional Color Scales | |
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| Yellowness Scales | |
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| Whiteness Scales | |
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| Color Differences | |
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| Summary | |
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| Measuring Color | |
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| Basic Principles of Measuring Color | |
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| The Sample | |
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| Samples for Analysis | |
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| Form Suitable for Inspection | |
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| Visual Color Measurement | |
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| Standardized Illuminating and Viewing Conditions | |
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| Measuring Color Appearance | |
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| Measuring Color Equality | |
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| Sample and Single Standard | |
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| Sample and Multiple Standards | |
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| Defining Limit Standards | |
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| Instrumental Color Measurement | |
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| Measurement Geometries | |
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| CIE Standard Geometries--Reflectance | |
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| Choosing a CIE Geometry--Reflectance | |
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| CIE Standard Geometries--Transmittance | |
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| Multiangle Geometries | |
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| Spectrophotometers | |
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| Colorimeters | |
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| Other Measurement Devices | |
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| Spectroradiometers | |
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| Photometers | |
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| Abridged Spectrometers | |
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| Imaging Systems | |
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| Goniophotometers, Glossmeters, and so on | |
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| Selecting a Color-Measuring Instrument | |
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| Precision and Accuracy Measurements | |
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| Calibration and Verification | |
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| Evaluating Precision | |
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| Evaluating Accuracy | |
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| The Importance of High Precision and Accuracy | |
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| Instruments That Measure Sources | |
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| Summary | |
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| Measuring Color Quality | |
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| Perceptibility and Acceptability Visual Judgments | |
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| Historical Perspective | |
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| Equations Based on Munsell Data | |
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| Equations Based on Matching Colored Lights | |
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| Equations Based on Evaluating Colored Materials | |
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| The Color-Difference Problem | |
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| Comparing Datasets | |
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| Observer Variability | |
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| Progress by the CIE | |
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| Recent Comprehensive Color-Difference Research | |
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| Weighted Color-Difference Equations | |
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| CMC (l:c) Color-Difference Equation | |
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| Luo-Rigg Dataset and the BFD Equation | |
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| RIT-DuPont Dataset | |
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| CIE94 | |
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| Recent CIE Color-Difference Activities | |
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| The "Color Tolerance" Experiment | |
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| Other Quality Metrics | |
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| Metamerism Indices | |
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| Color Inconstancy Index | |
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| Summary | |
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| Colorants | |
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| Some Matters of Terminology | |
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| Dyes Versus Pigments | |
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| Solubility | |
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| Chemical Nature | |
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| Transparency | |
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| Presence of a Binder | |
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| Summary | |
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| Classification of Colorants | |
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| The Colour Index International | |
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| Special Colorants--Fluorescents and Flakes | |
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| Fluorescent Colorants | |
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| Metallic Flakes | |
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| Pearlescent and Interference Flakes | |
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| Photochromatic and Thermochromic Colorants | |
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| Selecting the Colorants to Use | |
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| Sources of Information | |
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| Experienced Personnel | |
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| Suppliers of Colorants | |
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| Books and Periodicals | |
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| The User's Experience | |
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| General Principles in Choosing Colorants | |
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| Color as an Engineering Material | |
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| The Various Meanings of Color | |
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| Engineering Properties of Colorants | |
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| Color Gamuts | |
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| The Selection of Colorants | |
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| Summary | |
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| Producing Colors | |
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| Color Modeling | |
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| Color-Mixing Laws | |
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| Additive Versus Subtractive Mixing | |
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| Finding the Appropriate Mixing Law | |
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| Simple-Subtractive Mixing | |
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| Complex-Subtractive Mixing | |
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| Additive Mixing | |
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| Color CRT Displays | |
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| Color Printing | |
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| The "Visual-Based Color-Matching" Experiment | |
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| Instrumental-Based Color Matching | |
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| Database Development | |
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| Spectrophotometric Colorant Identification | |
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| Spectral-Matching Algorithms | |
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| Colorimetric-Matching Algorithms | |
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| Batch Correction | |
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| Other Features | |
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| Strength of Colorants | |
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| Recipe Sensitivity Evaluation | |
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| Shade Sorting, Clustering, and Tapering | |
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| Those Other Aspects Affecting Appeareance | |
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| Color Matching of Images and Graphics | |
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| Color-Matching Objectives | |
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| "Device-Independent" Color Encoding | |
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| Color Management Systems | |
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| Summary | |
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| Back to Principles | |
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| Mathematics of Color Technology | |
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| Matrix Algebra | |
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| Colorimetry | |
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| Transformation of Primaries | |
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| Television and Display Colorimetry | |
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| Instrumental-Based Color Matching | |
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| Indices of Metamerism and Color Inconstancy | |
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| Color Management | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |