Color: An Introduction to Practice and Principles, 3rd Edition

Preface

This third edition follows the outline of the previous editions, but approximately half of the text has been edited or rewritten and new text has been added to bring it, in a general manner, up to date. It has also been possible to include many more color figures, now integrated into the text. Additional stress has been placed on the widening chasm of views about the nature of color: is it located in nature and physically easily definable or a complex construct of the brain/mind?

Color is a much more encompassing subject than is usually conveyed in standard textbooks on color science and technology. It is part of the very complex vision process whose functioning, despite many advances, remains unknown in detail. There is also the continuing discrepancy between what is known about the physiological processes of color vision and the final results in our conscious experiences. At the same time, technological treatment of color is becoming more and more mathematical model driven in a time of economic world competition and of need to speed up all processes.

The intent remains to provide a relatively simple but technically correct and up-to-date introduction to many aspects of color. It is intended to be a largely nontechnical text that is reasonably comprehensive, short, and nonmathematical.

Artists, designers, craftsmen, philosophers, psychologists, color technologists, students in many fields with interests in color, or any other person interested in this subject will find ...