Color Appearance Models
by Mark D. Fairchild · first published 2005
100% recommend
Why HN recommends it
Comprehensive, canonical reference on color appearance modeling and color science. It serves as the go-to text for understanding the field and as a readable introduction for newcomers.
Summarised by Claude from recommending comments
There is an ever-increasing demand for a standard way to transport colours among devices on the Internet, and for achieving colour fidelity across digital media. The rapid growth in colour imaging technology has led to the emergence of colour management systems. These systems require colour appearance models so that images produced in one medium and viewed in a particular environment, may be reproduced in a second medium and viewed under different conditions. The eagerly anticipated second edition of Colour Appearance Models brings the fundamental issues and current solutions in the area of
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…Or there are many books about human color vision and color reproduction, some friendlier for laypeople and others highly detailed and technical. To understand recent color models Mark Fairchild’s book Color Appearance Models is pretty good, and the first half is a pretty accessible general overview. Or for more about color reproduction try Billmeyer and Saltzman’s Principles of Color Technology (recent editions rewritten…
on “Color Spaces” ↗The best online resource is https://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/wcolor.html Or you can buy an introductory color science book or two. Let me recommend Mark Fairchild's Color Appearance Models, https://www.amazon.com/dp/1119967031/ but here are a few others https://www.amazon.com/dp/1119367220 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0470024259 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1118173848/ https://www.amazon.com/dp/0470049049
on “Oklab: A perceptual color space for image processing” ↗I recommend Mark Fairchild’s book Color Appearance Models.
on “Five minute guide to better typography” ↗Anyone looking to understand color science should track down Mark Fairchild’s book Color Appearance Models, http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470012161/ The best color science resource I know of online is Bruce MacEvoy’s website, http://handprint.com/LS/CVS/color.html and those interested in the Munsell system…
on “Munsell Color Space data files” ↗Mark Fairchild’s book Color Appearance Models has a nice couple of pages on high-level adaptation effects. Try the example on the page after this link for a demonstration of differing spatial frequency adaptation in each half of the visual field.…
on “Your Lying Eyes: The Illusions of Kokichi Sugihara” ↗…dense, as well as being more reference. You sound like a perfect candidate to dig into Colour. There are a great many extremely knowledgeable people around that project that can help. Mark Fairchild's Color Appearance Models is probably about the most canonical tome one can recommend, with the caveat above. To do what you are seeking, you would need an accurate profile of your camera in question, as well as likely a spectrophotometer…
on “Colour 0.3.11 is available” ↗Read Color Appearance Models 3rd Edition by Fairchild, it covers __everything__. I think someday soon I'll be communicating about this more widely, we'll see though
on “Most of what you read on the internet is written by insane people (2018)” ↗…after that one). A century of experiments, wide color gamuts, HDR, have thrown out CIE 1931 as a good model. It’s only momentum now, and slowly higher end things are replacing it. A good introduction is Color Appearance Models, by Mark Fairchild, also any of his technical papers give a starting point into the science. [1] https://community.acescentral.com/t/cie-2015-cmfs-what-would... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIECAM02
on “Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You” ↗…perception of which is pretty well modeled by Munsell value, CIELAB L*, or CIECAM02 J. If you’re committed to making great color tools and can take some math, I recommend reading Mark Fairchild’s book Color Appearance Models; it has great material about human color vision generally, and is the best up-to-date color science textbook I know of. Especially w/r/t uses like cartography/information design, you might take a look…
on “Colourlovers (YC W10) Mixes With ColorSchemer And Adds To Twitter’s Palette” ↗…the link doesn't work, the paper is called: Brightness, lightness, colorfulness, and chroma in CIECAM02 and CAM16. Also, if you want a readable introduction to color science, you can check out his book Color Appearance Models.
on “sRGB Gamut Clipping (2021)” ↗