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Year: 2,016
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Pages: 276
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Pages In File: 316
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Language: English
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Topic: 198
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Identifier: 9,781,316,014,776
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Doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316014776
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Color: 1
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Extension: pdf
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Tags:
Perception, Color, Cognitive Psychology, Art, Neuroscience, Physiological Psychology, Science
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Toc: Contents
List of plates page xiii
List of figures xxiii
List of tables xxv
Preface xxvii
Chapter 1: Colour vision in everyday life 1
1.1 Numbers and dimensions of colours: hue, colourfulness,
brightness 2
1.2 Commonly used colour names in different languages 4
1.3 Development of colour vision and colour naming in
children 9
1.4 History of colour pigments and dyes 11
1.5 Psychology and symbolic values of colours 17
1.6 Colour mixtures 20
1.6.1 Subtractive and additive mixtures 20
1.6.2 Pigment mixtures and palettes 23
1.6.3 Optical mixtures 24
1.7 Colour and pictorial art 24
1.8 Colour and music 29
1.9 Colour and literature 31
1.10 Colour and philosophy 34
Chapter 2: The signals of colours: light and wavelengths 36
2.1 Light and darkness: early thoughts concerning the nature of
colours 37
2.2 White light and spectral colours: Newton’s experiments 39
2.3 The rainbow 42
2.4 Properties of light: wavelength and frequency 45
2.5 Trichromatic nature of colour vision: all hues from three 50
2.6 Trichromatic colour production and reproduction 53
2.6.1 Additive mixtures using coloured lights (RGB) 54
2.6.2 Subtractive mixtures of coloured substances (CMYK) 54
2.7 Colour hierarchies: primary, elementary and complementary colours 57
2.8 Light of naturally occurring colours 58
2.8.1 Absorption colours: selective absorption and reflection 59
2.8.2 Structural colours: refraction, scattering, interference 66
2.8.2.1 Light refraction 66
2.8.2.2 Wavelength-related light scattering 66
2.8.2.3 Random light scattering and reflection of all
wavelengths together 68
2.8.2.4 Interference 69
2.8.3 Radiating colours: the active production of
coloured light 69
2.8.3.1 Heat radiation and fire 69
2.8.3.2 Fluorescence and phosphoresce