GALLERY NINE: COLOR

TEXTBOOK READING: Everything you need to know about color, pp. 238-269. Chapter 10 tells everything about perceiving color, pp. 270-289, and Chapter 11 everything about color as photographed, pp. 290-303, albeit analog chemical photos.

SUPPLEMENTAL READING:
Click on the titles below to open a new window of text to supplement the book, gleaned from a variety of sources, some even written by yours truly. They are presented in the order in which they would be introduced in the class lecture.

SPECTRAL CURVES: Putting numbers to colors.

COLOR PRIMARIES: The basic building blocks of vision and reproduction. Need to know for the big quiz!


Chapter Nine Demonstrations Gallery


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Chapters Ten and Eleven are lumped in with this one.

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