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Wyszecki, Günter, and W.S.
Styles, Color Science: Concepts and
Methods, Quantitative Data and
Formulae, Second Edition (New
York: Wiley, 1982).
Judd, Deane B., and Günter
Wyszecki, Color in Business,
Science, and Industry, Third Edition
(New York: Wiley, 1975).
Hunt, R.W.G., The Reproduction of
Colour in Photography, Printing &
Television, Fifth Edition (Tolworth,
England: Fountain Press, 1995).
If you manufacture cars, you have to match the paint on
the door with the paint on the fender; color specification
will be necessary. You can afford quite a bit of
computation, because there are only two colored
elements, the door and the fender. To convey a picture
of the car, you may have a million colored elements or
more: Computation must be quite efficient, and an
image coding system is called for.
Further reading
The bible of colorimetry is Color Science, by Wyszecki
and Styles. But it’s daunting. For a condensed version,
read Judd and Wyszecki’s Color in Business, Science, and
Industry. It is directed to the color industry: ink, paint,
and the like.
For an approachable introduction to color theory,
accompanied by practical descriptions of image reproduction,
consult Hunt’s classic work.
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