November 2012
Beginner
296 pages
9h 12m
English
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Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology: Figure 3.5 reprinted from Journal of Vision 8(5) (2008), appendix, D. H. Brainard, D. R. Williams, H. Hofer. Trichromatic reconstruction from the interleaved cone mosaic: Bayesian model and the color appearance of small spots. Permission to reproduce purchased from Copyright Clearance Center.
Dr. Helga Kolb, Webvision, Salt Lake City, UT: Figure 3.2 reproduced with permission by the creator H. Kolb.
National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC: Figure 10.13 reprinted from Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100 (July 22, 2003), P. Kay, T Regie. Resolving the question of color naming universals, pp. 9085–9089, figure 4a.
Natural Colour System, Stockholm, Sweden: Figure 5.7a,b NCS-Natural Colour System© property and used on license from NCS Colour AB, Stockholm 2012, printed with permission.
Optical Society of America, Washington, DC
Figure 3.8 reprinted from Journal of the Optical Society of America 45 (1955) D. Jameson, L. M. Hurvich. Some quantitative aspects of an opponent-colors theory. Part I. Chromatic responses and spectral saturation, p. 549.
Figure 5.10 reprinted from Journal of the Optical Society of America 68 (1978) C. E. Foss. Space lattice used to sample color space, p. 1616.
Figure 5.15 reprinted from Journal of the Optical Society of America A 13 (1996), R. Lenz, M. Osterberg, ...
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