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Introduction to Colour Measurement

AIC Meeting, Mar del Plata, Argentina, October 2010

AIC Meeting – Mar del Plata, Argentina – October 2010

Introduction to Colour Measurement Lindsay MacDonald Professor of Digital Media

London College of Communication

Overview Part I Colorimetry – Spectral nature of light, object, observer

Part II Measurement and colour differences

Three Elements of Colour

Newton’s Experiment

Radiant or Emitted (direct)

Observer

Source Illumination

Reflected

Absorbed

Newton’s birthplace at Woolsthorpe Manor, Lincs.

Object Transmitted

Prof. Lindsay MacDonald, London College of Communication

Using a prism to produce a spectrum, Trinity College, 1665

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