Front Cover -- The Science of Color -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Chapter 1. The Origins of Modern Color Science -- 1.1 Newton -- 1.2 The trichromacy of color mixture -- 1.3 Interference colors -- 1.4 The ultra-violet, the infra-red, and the spectral sensitivity of the eye -- 1.5 Color constancy, color contrast and color harmony -- 1.6 Color deficiency -- 1.7 The golden age (1850-1931) -- 1.8 Nerves and sensations -- Further reading -- References -- Chapter 2. Light, the Retinal Image, and Photoreceptors -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The light stimulus -- 2.3 Sources of light loss in the eye -- 2.4 Sources of blur in the retinal image -- 2.5 Photoreceptor optics -- 2.6 Photoreceptor topography and sampling -- 2.7 Summary -- 2.8 Appendix A: Quantifying the light stimulus -- 2.9 Appendix B: Generalized pupil function and image formation -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 3. Color Matching and Color Discrimination -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Color mixture -- 3.3 Chromatic detection -- 3.4 Chromatic discrimination -- 3.5 Congenital color defect -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4. Color Appearance -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Unrelated colors -- 4.3 Related colors -- 4.4 Color constancy -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5. Color Appearance and Color Difference Specification -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Color order systems -- 5.3 Color difference systems -- 5.4 Current directions in color specification -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6. The Physiology of Color Vision -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Photoreceptors -- 6.3 Intermediate retinal neurons -- 6.4 Ganglion cells and LGN cells -- 6.5 Cortex -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7. The Physics and Chemistry of Color. the 15 Mechanisms -- 7.1 Overview: 15 causes of color.

7.2 Introduction to the physics and chemistry of color -- 7.3 Mechanism 1: Color from incandescence -- 7.4 Mechanism 2: Color from gas excitation -- 7.5 Mechanism 3: Color from vibrations and rotations -- 7.6 Mechanisms 4 and 5: Color from ligand field effects -- 7.7 Mechanism 6: Color from molecular orbitals -- 7.8 Mechanism 7: Color from charge transfer -- 7.9 Mechanism 8: Metallic colors from band theory -- 7.10 Mechanism 9: Color in semiconductors -- 7.11 Mechanism 10: Color from impurities in semiconductors -- 7.12 Mechanism 11: Color from color centers -- 7.13 Mechanism 12: Color from dispersion -- 7.14 Mechanism 13: Color from scattering -- 7.15 Mechanism 14: Color from interference without diffraction -- 7.16 Mechanism 15: Color from diffraction -- Further reading -- References -- Chapter 8. Digital Color Reproduction -- 8.1 Introduction and overview -- 8.2 Imaging as a communications channel -- 8.3 Image capture -- 8.4 Electronic image displays -- 8.5 Printing -- 8.6 Key words -- 8.7 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Author index -- Subject index.