Color

Resources

• artistic (but still scientific)
  • Color theory. Bruce MacEvoy. Handprint
• black
  • The physical and chemical properties of electroless nickel-phosphorus alloys and low reflectance nickel-phosphorus black surfaces. Richard J.C. Brown, Paul J. Brewer and Martin J.T. Milton. Journal of Materials Chemistry. Vol. 12 No. 9 (2002): 2749–2754.
• calibration & standards
  • ColorSync
  • Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage (CIE), International Commission on Illumination
  • Pantone
  • sRGB
• culture
  • Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution (paid link). Brent Berlin and Paul Kay. Berkeley and Los Angeles. University of California Press (1969).
  • World Color Survey, International Computer Science Institute, University of California, Berkeley.

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    World Color Survey (paid link). Paul Kay, Brent Berlin, Luisa Maffi, William R. Merrifield, and Richard Cook. Stanford, CA: Center for the Study of Language and Information (2009).
  • World Color Survey: Color naming reveals universal motifs and their within-language diversity. Delwin T. Lindsey and Angela M. Brown. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Vol. 106 No. 47 (24 November 2009): 19785–19790.
• hard to classify
  • RRR GGG BBB, Ewoudt Boonstra, Banana and Associates
• Historical
  • A Letter of Mr. Isaac Newton, Professor of the Mathematicks in the University of Cambridge; Containing His New Theory about Light and Colors: Sent by the Author to the Publisher from Cambridge, Febr. 6. 1671/72; In Order to be Communicated to the R. Society. Isaac Newton. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Vol. 6 (1671): 3075–3087.
  • A Serie's of Quere's Propounded by Mr. Isaac Newton, to be determin'd by Experiments, positively and directly concluding his new Theory of Light and Colours; and here recommended to the Industry of the Lovers of Experimental Philosophy, as they were generously imparted to the Publisher in a Letter of the said Mr. Newtons of July 8. 1672. Isaac Newton. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Vol. 7 (1672): 5004–5007.
  • The Bakerian Lecture: On the Theory of Light and Colours. Thomas Young. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Vol. 92 (1802): 12–48.
• Zur Farbenlehre [Theory of Colors], Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1810)
  • Erster Band [Book 1] & Zweyter Band [Book 2] at Deutsches Textarchiv
  • Zur Farbenlehre at Farben-Welten, Johannes Onneken
  • Zur Farbenlehre at Die Rudolf Steiner Schulen
  • Goethe's Theory of Colors, translated by Charles Lock Eastlake (1840), copy at Google Books
• mixing
  • Color Mixing
  • Material Science
  • Light Mixer, Cary Huang and Michael Huang
• theory
  • Chronological Bibliography on Color Theory, José Luis Caivano, Universidad de Buenos Aires
  • Color Group (Great Britain), City University, London
  • Color Matters, J.L. Morton
  • Color Technology, Charles Poynton
  • Color & Vision Database, Color & Vision Research Laboratory, University of California, San Diego
  • Glossary of Color Science Terms, Alex Byrne & David Hilbert, University of Illinois, Chicago
• Miscellaneous
  • Causes of Color. WebExhibits.
  • Cosmic Spectrum and the Color of the Universe, Karl Glazebrook & Ivan Baldry, Johns Hopkins University
  • Could Early Man Only See Three Colors? Cecil Adams, Straight Dope, 24 January 1986
  • This Is Color. Nicole Cohen and Beth Novey. Look at This. National Public Radio. (23 October 2014). A weird little lesson, in rainbow order.
• Video on demand
  • Brady Haran
    • Digital Images. Computerphile. YouTube (15 February 2015). How are images represented in a computer? Image analyst and research fellow Mike Pound gives us a snapshot (first in a series on computer vision).
    • Capturing Digital Images (The Bayer Filter). Computerphile. YouTube (22 February 2015). How do digital cameras turn light into the data that computers can handle? In this second part of our computer vision series, image analyst Mike Pound explains the Bayer Filter.
    • True Colour of "The Dress" #thedress (colours in digital images). Computerphile. YouTube (27 February 2015). After #thedress twitter-storm about what colour a dress appears to be in a photo, we asked image analyst Mike Pound to help ink in the details.
    • Colourspaces. Computerphile. YouTube (10 April 2015). What's a colourspace and why do we have different ones? It's horses for courses as image analyst Mike Pound explains RGB, CMYK, and YCbCr.
    • JPEG "files" & Colour (JPEG Pt1). Computerphile. YouTube (21 April 2015). JPEG Isn't a file format. Image Analyst Mike Pound explains why not in a series about how JPEG works.
    • JPEG DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform). Computerphile. YouTube (22 May 2015). DCT is the secret to JPEG's compression. Image Analyst Mike Pound explains how the compression works.
    • Yellow Street Lights. Sixty Symbols. YouTube (2 February 2016). A look at sodium street lights. Featuring Dr Meghan Gray. Illustrates my contention that color is a consequence of the human visual system and is not an innate property of an object.
  • Roy G Biv. They Might Be Giants (2009). Roy G. Biv is a colorful man and he proudly stands at the rainbow's end