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The future of color science
Author(s) -
Robertson Alan R.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
color research and application
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.393
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1520-6378
pISSN - 0361-2317
DOI - 10.1002/col.5080070104
Subject(s) - observer (physics) , computer science , field (mathematics) , matching (statistics) , psychology , human–computer interaction , mathematics , statistics , physics , quantum mechanics , pure mathematics
Color science is a unique and stimulating blend of many scientific disciplines. Physicists, physiologists, psychologists, psychophysicists, mathematicians, and chemists have all contributed to our understanding of how we see color. Tools and techniques have been developed to help those who work with color in their everyday lives, whether it be in manufacturing, in design, in communication, or in any other field. Some tools, such as the CIE Standard Observer, were derived from empirical color‐matching data but can now be explained, at least approximately, on the basis of our knowledge of the physiology of the visual system. Others, such as most color‐difference formulae, are still purely empirical and explanations in terms of the actual functioning of the human visual system are largely unknown. It is likely that improved tools and techniques will come in the future as we increase our knowledge of the visual system and how it works. Such increased knowledge will come most readily if there is more cooperation between the various disciplines and less tendency to think along narrow discipline‐limited lines.